In addition to rabbits & goats, we’re now growing bananas, plantains, corn, black eyed peas, black beans, tomatoes, greens, pumpkins, watermelons, coconuts , mangoes, avocados, cherries, oranges and moringa in Haiti.
Archive for October, 2011
Mission Manna Is Growing!
October 28th, 2011Haiti, Through the Eyes of Mission Manna Volunteer, Laura Baskervill
October 19th, 2011
Some Photos From Last week
October 13th, 2011
Mission Manna Staff
October 7th, 2011
Mission Manna Staff (left to right) Frankel, Givenaud and Rosmela Santelia do height and weight measurements in Fond Baptiste. Increasingly MM-trained Haitians are replacing US volunteers in clinical work.
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Last clinic. The team
October 7th, 2011We had our final clinic of the trip in Shada. This week we treated well over 1000 children for parasites, infections and malnutrition. We heard again and again that Mission MANNA is doing good work here. Thanks to our Haitian team and our supporters in the states!
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October 6th, 2011 So here we are on our last night in Montrouis, wrapping things up to leave tomorrow. What a whirlwind of a week! I thought I would come here and feel alot of pity and sadness for the children and the country. Instead I feel a sense of awe at what these resilient people deal with daily; how they survive and how they overcome. This morning at Fond-Baptiste we saw the sickest of the sickest. Things I’ve only seen in textbooks. Infants crusted from head-to-toe in scabies or impetigo. Others with eyes swollen shut and skin splitting from kwashiokor. Toddlers burned from falling into cooking fires. Children that likely won’t survive. But life goes on here. It’s accepted and understood. Going home tomorrow i’m sure will feel like stepping into an alternate universe. But I will be forever changed. And I will be back…!
Jennifer C. Nicolini, MD
Jennifer C. Nicolini, MD
Asheville Internal Medicine
60 Livingston St., Ste 200
Asheville, NC 28801
(828) 253-4851
Post from a worm girl…
October 6th, 2011Being a second timer here, I’ve come back with a fresh perspective and hopeful to see a positive change. We’re preparing for our 5th and final clinic tomorrow and I’ve asked myself “are we making a difference?”. The malnourished children are still here…I’ve seen so many of the same kids a year before. There are some who look better, so that gives me hope. While talking with one of our translators, he said if Haiti didn’t have help from mission groups, they have no help at all. I still can’t believe a country continues to survive with such little help from the government. I’ve dewormed a ton of kids this week ( a task I do with great pride and joy). I wish all of them had clean water, healthy food, felt safe, happy, and cared for. I can’t give them all that, and seeing it first hand makes me feel helpless. But I feel like we’re doing what we can, and knowing these families feel cared for is enough incentive to return. What a shift of perspective I get each time…I’m thankful for the experience.
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Boys playing soccer with an orange
October 6th, 2011
Fond Baptist goat herd
October 6th, 2011
We’re very proud of our Haitian counterparts Frankel and Rosemela’s work with 23 families in Fond Baptist. Twenty of these families now have goats for breeding and a better diet of milk and meat. These two Haitians did great work in today’s clinic, where we saw more than 450 patients. Tom
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Post from Annie Dephouse
October 6th, 2011Yesterday we drove up to the mountains. It was a very intense drive with a deep gorge in the middle of the road and we had to cross it by making a bridge. Thankfully we all made it up safely. When we got up to the mountains everyone was invited to a local game of soccer. Mission Manna vs. Fond Baptiste. The ending score came to a draw 3-3. As we were walking back to our compound we noticed a small game of soccer being played by little 5-6 year olds. The little kids were running around kicking not a soccer ball but an orange. I found it so creative and original that these kids who lived in dirt and had little to nothing to eat were playing the world’s game with an orange. After the game we walked back to the compound and headed in for our rough night sleep. We were sleeping in a church on some church pews and a concrete/dirt floor. Waking up at 5:30 to the sound of roosters, we set up our clinic and began treating over 450 kids which took over 6 hours without a break! We headed back into Montriouis and began preparations for tomorrow!
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