Author name: Gospel to Haiti

… distended  tummies, brittle hair, skin lesions and infections, flaccid extremities…all the tell tale signs and symptoms of Protein/Energy Malnutrition. Sadly, these have been all too common at the clinic the last few months as I try to divide up our limited amount of protein powder to the worst cases. My heart aches as I

Steve and Shana went to Port this week and were shopping around for this months supply of milk, what a blessing when they found out that the price of the milk had gone down quite a bit, so with the same amount of money they were able to buy more formula and milk powder. God

    Our morning was off to a good start. Fre Daniel remembered each of the worker’s names,except his Wife’s, as he prayed before we started. And he even chose the nice song ” Precious Lord, Take My Hand” with all the waiting patients.    I caught myself teasing Nores for getting here when clinic

   We got home from our annual weekend trip last night and after packing up and getting ready for bed we heard quite the ruckus for about 2 minutes, all the while my heart sped up certain that it could mean a short night for some nurses. Sure enough, there was a prolonged sharp rap

     First of all I’ll tell you a little story which happened this morning.  We needed to go up the mountain to Granfour (about 10 min drive) to check on something for a patient.  So I hopped on the Gator with Jon.  Of course since the machine was empty otherwise, there were plenty of

Hello from Mis Whitney Smith, reporting live for GTH News! 🙂 Or at least attempting to! (Disclaimer: I’ve never written a blog post before, so any mistakes can be credited to the fact that I never learned how to professionally blog in school ;P 😉 Lord-willing this will be home for at least the next

After the birth Monday night, there were 2 more babies born at the clinic this week as well as one born just a few hundred yards from the clinic.   Baby born Monday night/Tuesday morning  Nurses who attended the birth  Baby born Wednesday afternoon  Baby born Thursday afternoon  Baby born just down the road from

Hi, my name is Andrea. I’m a Student Nurse from Cheyenne Wyoming, I’ve come to help out for two weeks in anyway that I can and to get experience working in a foreign country. In the past six days since I have been here I have seen and done so much and I never imagined that

    I have gotten an number of requests from you to put on pictures of all our clinic staff, these are as up to date as they can get, and there are two missing, they weren’t working today. Mis Joseline. She is always picture shy but nice about it. Mis Leda, a very good

This week has been full to overflowing at the clinic.   We’ve had quite a few challenging cases as well as babies born which often means some short nights!   On Monday this little fellow pictured below was brought in by his mom.  The mother claimed to have been pregnant with the child for 15