Kids Health for Haiti!!!

Only 4 days till we are on the way to Haiti again! It comes up so fast! Lots to organize this time, planning for 2 weeks away from home. We have 10 of 12 bags packed and ready to go. The last of the packing will happen over the next few days as donated medicine, formula, and other supplies that we need are trickling in. We have 3 tents packed - to use while we are there and donate to needy families on our way home. Diapers, formula, clothes, medicine, bandages, gauze, tape, splinting supplies, IV fluids, and other medical supplies fill out the remainder of the 12 bags!


On a very exciting note, we have decided on a name for a new foundation. Kids Health for Haiti has been established! We are still waiting on help with paperwork for officially making this a tax-exempt organization, which will likely happen after this trip is over. Nevertheless, we are excited about progress! We are pursuing possibilities of establishing clinics in a city, Gressier, about 20 minutes outside of Port-au-Prince. We will try to make connections for this while we are in Haiti next week. So much to think about!






And to get excited for this trip even more...there is a little girl, Georgesline. She had an amputation of her leg during the earthquake. She was one of our first major surgical cases that came through Mision Rescate while we were there in January. Dr. Dayle Maples, our trusted friend and orthopedic surgeon performed several surgeries for wound revision during that week we were there. I have recently found that "Jasmine," as we all knew her, has been continuing to come back to the clinic for her care. MR has become something that Haitians trust and depend on. (Thanks to Jonathan for the pic below that I stole off his facebook! We met Big Jon in January at MR, and he just returned from another week there!)


4 more days! We leave Saturday morning!!!