Picture from Haiti

My husband and I just returned last month from living in Haiti as Missionaries to the Haitian People. I will try from time to time to put a picture on this blog to show you how life can be in a third world country that is not that many miles from the United States. This is a photo of just a few of the people waiting for a clinic we were having in a village which they call Letant Two. We got there first thing in the morning and set up things as quickly as possible and as soon as we drove up (which meant driving through part of the huge lake) the people seemed to come from nowhere. We started seeing people about 8:00 in the morning and finally saw the last person around 4:00 PM or so and then had to take everything down and pack everything up in the two trucks we went there in. This is the first time this village has ever had any kind of medical team come there to bring them medical care. Some of the people had very minor issues and some of them had very major issues. When you have a clinic in Haiti you only are able to do the best that you can. Which is just what we did. We bathed children with sores all over their bodies from worms and gave our medicine to the families and help to ease their suffering if only for a short time. But the key is to do things for one person at a time and one day at a time. That is the best that you can do.