Posts by Friends For Health In Haiti

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…

Here are some photos of construction on the storage depot and clinic from the past week:

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…

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…

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…

Here are some more photos from the developing construction site as of September 13, 2011.  Enjoy! The engineers expect to mark off the corners of the buildings and begin to dig the foundation next week.  We’ll keep you posted!

No, it’s not Christmas, but our clinic site is beginning to look a lot like a construction zone.  We had to wait a few weeks for one of the Department of Transportation bulldozers to get repaired, but it is now busy at work preparing the site to lay the foundation for our construction warehouse and…

The last week of June found the construction workers busy building retaining walls that extend out from the newly-constructed bridge upstream and downstream on both sides of the creek.  Here are photos from June 30th: As you can see from the following photo, the creek water has now been diverted to flow under the bridge:…

The plywood and planks that were used to frame up the bridge were removed once the concrete was dry.  Now, workmen are clearing out mud and debris from under the bridge, after which they’ll start building retaining walls along the sides of the creek, directing the flow of water under the bridge. Here are photos…