Construction
Praise Be to the Lord!!!
By Dr. Katie Wolf On a beautiful, clear sunny day in southwestern Haiti, February 23, 2013, the Health Center of Gatineau (Centre de Sante de Gatineau) was dedicated in a ceremony attended by over 300 people. Those attending included leaders and officials from local communities as well as the town of Jérémie, representatives from business…
Read MoreClinic Inauguration!
CENTRE DE SANTE DE GATINEAU INAUGURATION CEREMONY FEBRUARY 23, 2013 Our new outpatient clinic, the Gatineau Health Center, is being dedicated at a ceremony in Haiti on February 23, 2013 at 9:00 AM. Several of the board members of Friends for Health in Haiti will be attending, as well as members of supporting churches in…
Read MoreTiled Floors and Iron Doors
Things are looking great at the construction site these days. Finish work has begun on the new clinic, and in the past two months, nearly every wall, column, and beam in the building has been covered with a thin layer of cement plaster to give it a smooth, paintable surface. Over the past two weeks,…
Read MoreFloods, Phones and “Deputized” Engineers
After our rain-delayed road trip, described in my last blog, we found that the same rains that caused us delay at Riviere Glace also caused havoc in the Gatineau area. It rained there for three days straight in mid-November and caused flooding such as had not been seen by most of the community people in…
Read MoreGo! Pack! Go!
Over the past 2 months, master carpenter Bob Chase has been laboring day in and day out to build cabinets for the new clinic, all from his house in New Berlin. He has undertaken the large task of building all the cabinets, then disassembling them into their separate components, and figuring out a way to…
Read MoreThe Clinic Has a Roof!
Last Thursday was a watershed moment for all of us here at FHH. After months of anticipation, the new clinic in Gatineau now has a roof! The roof was finished last Thursday afternoon after two full days of work by a crew as large as 80 people at times. The process included mixing the concrete…
Read MoreProgress
Construction has again moved along at a nice pace in the past two weeks. In the clinic, workers finished pouring all concrete beams, which means the roof is up next! Tomorrow, Lord-willing, the carpenters will start the formwork for the roof, which should take a couple weeks. We recently stocked up on bamboo to use…
Read MoreConstruction Update
Construction continued on both the clinic and pharmacy buildings last week. For the pharmacy, the masons poured the concrete footings for all the columns, after which they placed rock for the foundation at an incredibly quick pace. While the masons were busy working on the pharmacy foundation, the iron workers prepared rebar for the upper…
Read MoreN’ap Frape
N’ap frape. Translation: “We’re hittin’,” or “we’re cruising right along.” That’s the phrase our foreman, Boss Tony, used to describe our construction progress the other day. Indeed, construction is cruising right along these days. Last week, Boss Tony & crew finished pouring the remaining columns in the clinic and began work on the concrete lintels over the…
Read MorePhotos 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…
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