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I am amazed by these 4 girls and how quickly they have changed in 4 weeks!  Daphna (farthest on the left side) still has swelling in her feet.  She will take several more weeks to fully recover.  Thank you Meds and Food for Kids for making the wonderful product of medika mamba. Thank you World Wide Village for coming along beside us and taking on this fund-raising project for us.  Thank you–Thank you so much to the Livesay Family for all the fund-raising and running you have done to save so many kids lives already.  Tara and Brittany are running a 1/2 marathon soon and are raising funds to purchase more medika mamba.  Help them reach their goal –read their post here or better yet donate here  to save the lives of malnourished kids in Haiti.

Debbie in MN

We wanted to give a special thank you to Debbie and her husband Paul in MN.  They have been working since right after the earthquake to collect so many supplies for RHFH.  Debbie organized a whole semi container that was shipped from MN last spring.  She stored many,many supplies in a warehouse free of charge to us.  Debbie and Paul made numerous trips to Walmart to pick up donated supplies for us.  Debbie will be traveling to RHFH at the end of Nov with Caroline and Jess.  We are so excited that Debbie will be back to visit and see so many of the supplies that went through her warehouse being used here at RHFH.  She is a blessing to us!  We love you Debbie!

projected path of Tomas-not good

Hurricane Tomas

The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said Tomas strengthened Saturday night with 90 mph (150 kph) winds and was centered about 50 miles (85 kilometers) west-southwest of St. Lucia. It was moving west-northwest at 9 mph (15 kph).

Tomas, the Atlantic season’s 12th hurricane, was expected to drop up to 6 inches (15 centimeters) of rain in the region.

Forecasters said it could become a Category 2 storm Monday evening and possibly reach Category 3 by midweek, with winds around 115 mph (184 kph).

It was forecast to head toward Jamaica and could unleash heavy rains in southern portions of the Dominican Republic and Haiti, which is struggling to recover from a devastating earthquake and cope with a recent cholera outbreak.

Haiti issued an orange storm alert, the second highest level. Authorities warned southern and western regions — including the quake-ravaged capital of Port-au-Prince, where an estimated 1.3 million people are living in tent camps — to be on guard for high winds, thunderstorms and possible flooding.

http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/tomas-becomes-hurricane-batters-702884.html

You make me laugh…

These two gals will be coming back to RHFH in the next two months for a visit.  We miss you both so much!  Can’t wait to see you (and Caroline!) soon!

Abandoned

 in the clinic yard this week.

Semi Container update

These are some pictures from the last container that was shipped to Haiti from Indiana.  There were many, many, many supplies on this container that are helping many people in our area.  Lots of medications for the clinic, clothing and supplies for the children in the RC, dry food and lots of other items.

We are still trying to reach our goal for this need.  Let us know if you are interested in helping!

Tarps…

SO MANY BUCKETS…..

hygiene products and hair ties…

boxes of shoes that a blog reader got donated for us…

#10 can’s of food for the RC..

peanut butter..

and more peanut butter……

banana boxes full of supplies for the RC….

anti-clinic protest

 

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5i6rFSNhvPMVFbh8WIfz-QDjQA3

Cholera fears spark anti-clinic protest in Haiti
(AP) ­ October 27, 2010

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) ‹ Protesters threw rocks at a cholera treatment center as it was preparing to open in the city of St. Marc on Tuesday, highlighting the fear surrounding a disease that was almost unknown in Haiti before it began spreading through the countryside, aid workers said.

Some of the roughly 300 students and other protesters said they feared the Doctors Without Borders-Spain clinic would bring more of the disease to their seaside town, which is one of the hardest hit in the week-old epidemic that has killed 284 people and infected 3,769, according to United Nations figures.

U.N. peacekeepers from Argentina arrived with riot shields to reinforce police. Warning shots were heard; the U.N. said its soldiers fired blanks.  There were no reports of injuries.  Haitian health officials assured the crowd the clinic would not open in that neighborhood. Doctors Without Borders-Spain country chief francisco Otero said the medical aid group would try to reopen it in another part of St.Marc. The clinic is intended to rehydrate and treat people with the severe diarrheal disease.

“In the coming days we are going to start to work with this community, to explain that there is no risk for them to have such a facility,” Otero told The Associated Press.  More than 420 new cholera cases were confirmed Tuesday, according to the  U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Twenty-five new deaths were confirmed, bringing the total to 284.

OCHA spokeswoman Imogen Wall says the majority of cases occurred along the central Artibonite River with many new instances in Haiti’s central plateau. St. Marc’s main hospital was the first to widely alert the epidemic as it overflowed with the sick and dying.

U.N. staff have been told to avoid areas of heavy infection unless they are given special permission to go there. Guatemalan police manned a checkpoint Tuesday on the highway from Port-au-Prince to Mirebalais, a hard-hit city in central Haiti, to make sure unauthorized U.N. vehicles did not pass. Aid workers, meanwhile, scrambled to contain the spread of the disease, which has not occurred in Haiti for generations.

Speaker trucks passed through neighborhoods in the capital, where a handful of cases have been confirmed in people who apparently contracted it in the countryside, advising the city’s millions of residents to wash their hands.  The Dominican Republic, which borders the central plateau where many new cases are being found, announced that all people crossing the border must  wash hands and complete a medical form. They also stepped up military surveillance and closed a twice-weekly binational market on Monday, sparking protests on the Haitian side of the border.

Update…

 

The teams have been going out for two days now into village all around us.  It is amazing that so many have not heard about the Cholera outbreak.  Some villages have heard  but do not understand it and have heard bad advice about it.  For example there was a village that was traveled to yesterday.  Everyone in the village heard that the water sources were poisoned and no one was to eat or drink from any water sources. So most people had not made food with water or drank any water for several days.  They were eating bread and trying to buy bottled drinks.    Everyone was very thirsty and hungry!  They were so excited when our health workers arrived and told them what Cholera was and how to treat the water.  Another group was on their way up the mountain to another village.  People that were walking the path asked them where they were going.  The were so happy that the clinic would send people to talk to them that they offered to walk them back up the mountains to the village.  Everyone is very interested and wanting as much information as they can to learn about Cholera.  Each village has been very, very thankful to the workers for coming and visiting.  We are encouraged and excited about this project.

Ameyah Lynn