Author name: Gospel to Haiti

Last Tuesday towards the end of our clinic day, a husband and wife came in carrying two week old twin boys, Mitchye and Senior (Seen-yo). My heart cringed as I pulled the blanket back from Senior’s face and saw what looked more like the aged and weary expression of an old man than a baby […]

Greetings! Starting with introductions, I am Alyssa Martin the newest member on the Alegue Clinic team. I came a little over three weeks ago with plans to stay for awhile so I am sure you will hear more from me! A little background, I am a newly graduated Registered Nurse from Ontario, Canada. I feel

…that we’ve seen recently… You wouldn’t recognize this bright-eyed little face from a couple weeks ago!  She’s the one whose distraught mother rushed into the clinic with her cause she was in respiratory distress from a very plugged nose that Mali unplugged. 🙂  If you remember, she also had a strange mouth condition that has

I’m getting ready to fall asleep to the sound of whirring fans attempting to curb the heat of another sultry tropical night in the coastal town of Petit Goâve. Donavan and I are planning on heading to Port au Prince early in the morning to spend an exhausting day buying the monthly medicines and supplies

*Oops!  I checked the calendar as I got ready this morning to confirm that it was indeed me on call after clinic today, but I didn’t notice until just tonight that my name was also on for blogging! You know the word blog (spelled blag) in Creole, means joke?.  So when I say I’m going to do

…which were not able to focus very well this morning.  Mali’s grandmother had made a generous donation of a bunch of reading glasses when she went home, and Mali and I decided to each wear a pair on the way to work.  The pair I had was so strong that I had trouble focusing on

… Of a busy Friday!  If you stopped by to visit us today,   You would’ve found lots of people waiting outside, and inside, and Frè Adolf finding dossiers and charting people’s weights!  Then Kindra busily working at getting the many blood pressure patients through, Dr Felix, Mis Leda, Mis Marquis, and Mis Whitney consultanting

Sometimes it’s not the roses you need to stop and smell, but the stories you need to stop and tell.  I’m just not sure where to start and where to stop, cause it seems like so far everything that started happening a few weeks ago hasn’t really stopped in between one thing and the next.

“Mis Mali….My head hurts, I can hardly sleep at night because my teeth hurt so bad.” an old lady tells me as she stuffs more cotton balls into her ears. “Show me mami,”I smile at her as she opens her mouth as wide as possible and quickly reaches in with her not-so-clean- fingers to point

Breathe.  Just breathe. That’s what I kept telling myself yesterday morning. My world felt as though it was tilting nearly out of control when I surveyed the large crowd that was waiting for us, with people everywhere reaching out to stop me as I walked by, as I tried desperately to shove my emotions about