Posts by Friends For Health In Haiti
Photos from the Week
In the past week, the construction crew began working simultaneously on the clinic and pharmacy buildings. About 10 workers began digging the foundation of the pharmacy, while the masons continued to place blocks for the walls of the clinic throughout the week. On Friday, the carpenters began making formwork for the clinic columns, and the…
Read MoreThe Clinic Has Walls!
Construction of the new clinic has continued at a promising pace this week. After pouring the concrete floor last week, the masons started placing blocks for the walls of the clinic on Tuesday, and as of yesterday, they had finished the 6th row of blocks. We were also able to lay out the pharmacy building…
Read MoreA Vision of Things to Come
I had a vision the other day. It wasn’t a spiritual vision, but it did have spiritual implications. I was standing on the newly completed floor of our new clinic, discussing with Engineer Nick Matthews where inner walls and doors were going to be placed. As I did so, I envisioned in my mind what…
Read MoreLittle Gifts / Big Needs
Kervenson Jean Baptiste is a four year-old boy who came to see us in our clinic a few weeks ago. He had a cold and high fever and was crying a lot as I tried to examine him. So, I got a little toy car out of our toy box and gave it to him,…
Read MoreBuilding for the Future
This slideshow was originally shown at the annual “Hope for Haiti” banquet back in April of this year. It is a visual summary of the past year of construction at the clinic property in Gatineau, during which a bridge was built across the creek on the site, the storage depot was built, and work began…
Read MoreHELP ON THE MEDICAL SIDE!
This post is being written by Dr. Katie Wolf There have been quite a few blogs written lately by Engineer Nick Matthews. I thought I would write now about some of the recent activities of our clinic in Gatineau. We have been blessed by having some medical personnel visit with each team of construction workers…
Read MoreMarch Construction Update
We recently bid farewell to 2 more teams from Elmbrook Church who were very helpful in continuing the work started by previous teams, including patient data entry, the preparation of meds for clinic, and wood-working projects. Thus concludes a 2-month season in which 5 teams joined us in ministry here, blessing us with their moral…
Read MoreMore Visitors
As of last week, the storage depot has doors, which is big because it gives us a secure place for all our construction materials. For the past 2 weeks, we enjoyed having some folks from Oakwood Church in Wales, WI, stay with us in Jeremie. Some stayed for only the 1st week, some stayed for…
Read MoreVisitors Galore
Over the past 4 weeks, we have hosted a number of volunteer groups from our partner churches in the U.S. The first group was our good friends from the Presbytery of New Brunswick, New Jersey. The 14 of them filled meds, organized patient charts, entered patient information into our new database, installed doors throughout the…
Read MoreAlmost There
We are oh-so-close to having a rainproof storage area, and we are optimistic that the roof of the Storage Depot will be poured later this week. Here are some photos from the past week, during which the construction crew built wooden & bamboo formwork for the upper beams and roof of the depot.
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