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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…