Saturday, January 15, 2011

Saturday updates from PAP

Hi everyone,

A couple of quick notes

We had a good wrap-up meeting with Dr. Seneque as well as Gerald, our health manager in Pestel.  They are very much on-board with the plans for 2011!!   

We also had a meeting with a lady named Sister Miriam Frederick (no relation, unless you go back far enough I suppose) who runs an orphanage in PAP.  She has been going out to Pestel for decades now, and has a wonderful heart for the children of Haiti and of Pestel.   She and a surgeon from Florida have wanted to build a hospital for Pestel, and they worked with a hospital engineer to draft up plans.   I got to see them today and they look really great.

Importantly, while we were visiting with Sister Miriam there was a woman who came over to interview Dr. Seneque about his work in Pestel.  She is a reporter and recently flew out to Pestel by helicopter (I'm VERY jealous) to learn about the cholera situation.  

She is writing up an article that MAY be included in USA Today on Monday.  So if you get USA Today please take a look and see if her article is in the paper on Monday!!   Wouldn't that be terrific to have an article about the needs in Pestel read by thousands and thousands?!?


One item that came to light during this interview:   Dr. Seneque's truck broke down about a month ago during the height of the cholera epidemic.   Transportation for Dr. Seneque and his patients has been extremely challenging since then.   Sister Miriam said that if we could get a truck for Dr. Seneque she could (somehow, using a specific NGO status in Haiti) get it flown or shipped to Haiti and out to Seneque.    It would need to be Diesel.  

So if you have ideas on how to get a truck or SUV for Dr. Seneque, please do let me know!


So this has been quite a productive little trip!   :)


Heading home tomorrow, but not exhausted as usual.    

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