Medical Team

Yesterday a medical team of eight arrived, they are all from Southern Ontario. I don't know any of them personally but two attend the same church as my parents so my mom sent along a lovely "mom" hug with one of them. Another member knows my cousin Grace and sent along greetings from her. I really enjoy having teams, it's great to show off Haiti and explain how things work here. Because this is a medical team, they will be doing some large clinics. Monday and Tuesday they will see approx. 200 patients each day at Adoration Christian School. Wednesday through Friday they will do clinics at different locations. This is a great opportunity for people in Haiti to receive free health care as there is no public system here in Haiti and if you can't afford to go to the hospital, you just don't. Many people die of very preventable diseases.
The team arrived yesterday with no problems, in fact they arrived early and were able to meet the friendly workers at the airport as they waited for Randy and I:) Within minutes they had MANY friends in Haiti! All their lugguage arrived which is great because besides their own personal items they took medical and school supplies with them!!! Today we will be attending the church at the school and then we will be going to a children's feeding program. There is a couple here from Montreal who run a HUGE ministry to children. They have a morning church service and then feed over 2000 children! There is also a small clinic on Sunday, so several team members will be able to assist with this while the rest of us hang out with the children. It is a very well run organization, that runs extremely smoothly considering the amount of children they minister to.