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Wascally Wabbits

December 2nd, 2011

Mission Manna’s distribution of breeding pairs of rabbits into the Montrouis community continues to be a great success.

Garry Maurice is the point man for this project and in addition to the distribution, he provides the materials and expertise to build a durable hutch for the rabbits. Garry also educates recipients in raising the rabbits and advises on best practices for consumption and sale in the market.

In this way, Mission Manna is providing a sustainable resource for malnourished families in Montrouis.

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Garry Maurice Distributing Rabbit Pairs in Montrouis

November 4th, 2011

This program continues to grow exponentially and is quickly providing families in Montrouis with a source of nutrition and income. We hope to expand the program to Fond Baptiste in the coming months.

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Mission Manna Is Growing!

October 28th, 2011

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.

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Haiti, Through the Eyes of Mission Manna Volunteer, Laura Baskervill

October 19th, 2011

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Some Photos From Last week

October 13th, 2011

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Mission Manna Staff

October 7th, 2011
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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, 2011
We 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

Asheville Internal Medicine
60 Livingston St., Ste 200
Asheville, NC 28801
(828) 253-4851

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Post from a worm girl…

October 6th, 2011
Being 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
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