Hello from Haiti. It is Sunday and we will have completed our first week tomorrow! It was a nice cool night so we all slept better. Today is cloudy and cooler, but still humid. Jim, Jack & Ken thought they were going to the UN and do their laundry...as we had been told we could. A fellow Disaster Relief friend got us an interpreter and we took off to the UN. Of course the ride was an interesting experience in itself. We arrived and after explaining why we were there we followed our guide to where they told us to go, but it was only a toilet with a tiny wash basin in it. We finally found the head man and he told us there were no facilities for non-UN personnel to use, but they were working on it. He showed the laundry services being built to our guide and we thanked him and left. Our guide said we would not want to wash our clothes there even if it was finished. By then we had walked over a lot of the UN compound and were tired of toting bags of dirty laundry around. We loaded back up and came back to our hospital compound. We had purchased some kitchen size garbage cans, so Jack started washing and rinsing clothes and hung them on lines he had stretched from tent to tent. He took pictures, but didn’t have his chip in his camera, so they are not available to show. He will catch Jim or Ken washing and get pictures later.
We are supposed to go on a tour of the area at 1 p.m. so we’re hoping it goes better than our trip to the UN.
Ken has taken on a project of building braces to elevate the heads of the beds for the patients. He also got up at 4 a.m. yesterday and added a line of electrical lights that he spliced and created for one of the hospital tents.
Charley is helping Dave daily put more and more supplies up on shelves as we can get new ones made. The US Airforce sent some men over yesterday to help us and they brought a front-end loader to move pallets around and also did a lot of man power in unloading boxes, ect. for us. The Supply Tent is shaping up more every day. Jim and Jack have inventoried everything that has been put on the shelves and labeled all the shelves and made a data base to use in helping the doctors and nurses find what they need. They think we are the greatest and keep our spirits high bragging on us. Since it is Sunday the men building the shelving are not working, so that slows us down a little today. We were told there would be devotional services for everyone this afternoon...both non-denominational and Catholic. That may be an interesting service to attend.
Medically we all seem to be existing fairly well. Jack caught poison ivy and had to have a shot yesterday. David’s fingers became swollen and he had to have his ring cut off, but it hasn’t slowed either one of them down.
We’ll report later on how our tour experience goes. We almost feel like we’re taking our life in our hands just to ride anywhere on these streets, so it should be an experience to write home about!
Thank you for your continued prayers!
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