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The eventual completion of our school building will allow us to use some of the rooms as a clinic that will administer care to the people in Zorangé on a daily basis. The estimated time to complete the construction at this rate is at least September of 2007. In the meantime, we will continue with our annual mission trip clinics to provide medical care to the community. Since 2000, we have been traveling to Zorangé, Haiti taking doctors, nurses, medics and other volunteers. On these mission trips our primary objective has been to set up a medical clinic where we can evaluate health problems, determine the best immediate solution, inform the people how to better care for themselves, administer the proper medications and dosage directions, and show loving care that these people desperately need. After each trip we have several meetings to figure out long term solutions that will genuinely improve the health of the babies, children, teenagers, women, men and elderly. We cover many health topics and each year we return to Haiti better prepared with more information, supplies, team members, and goals.
Each year we see more and more patients. They hear we are coming and they walk or are carried over mountains and through valleys from miles away to get medical attention. In January 2005, we saw just over nine hundred people in two and a half days. (The half-day was not planned.) In the past we had only held the clinic for two days, and then to our dismay we had to turn people away due to lack of supplies and exhaustion. But in 2005 our hearts could not bear the burden of turning everyone away. At the end of the second day we still had some supplies, so when we awoke the third day and saw people desperately in need of attention and did what we could until our supplies ran out. It was then that we decided a three-day medical clinic would be our goal for future trips to Haiti. So when we returned in January of 2006 we were better prepared. At the end of the third day our exhausted team was encouraged to find out that we had given medical care to at least one thousand and fifty people. Unfortunately, we still had to turn people away. This is why we are going to set up a clinic in a portion of the new school building when it is completed. So people will not have to be turned away.
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