Posts by Friends For Health In Haiti
March 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.
Read MoreWhen the Cats are Away, the Mice will…Work
This week was another that saw considerable progress on construction of both the storage depot and the clinic buildings, even as the head honchos of FHH – Dr. Wolf and Cherlie – were away on a brief trip to the U.S. 2 workers continued to make concrete blocks that will be used in the depot…
Read MoreWeekly Update
Here are some photos of construction on the storage depot and clinic from the past week:
Read MoreMoving Right Along
Last week was an eventful week of construction, which was very exciting for me. [By the way, this is Nick. I will be the author of most of the construction updates on the blog. My apologies if my writing is too engineer-y.] Significant progress was made on the warehouse building, and the foundation is now…
Read MoreA Different Type of Building Project
Ipancia Belace, a middle-aged woman, sat in the chair next to my desk as I was taking a history from her. She had been a patient in our clinic for several years and made regular visits to us for mild high blood pressure and various aches and pains. She took a small pill bottle out…
Read MoreFoundations
Construction of the clinic and warehouse buildings is moving along steadily, and there is visible progress with each passing day (except for days when the rain intrudes). Last week, the foundations of both buildings were dug, 3 tons of iron rebar were delivered to the site for use in the concrete footings, and all of…
Read MoreWelcome Nick Matthews
We’re very excited that Milwaukee native and UW-Madison graduate Engineer Nick Matthews is now here in Haiti with us. He arrived about ten days ago and is already hard at work learning Creole and going over construction plans with his Haitian engineering counterpart, Paul Chèry. Nick expects to be here with us for a year…
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