Again we split into groups to divide forces today. Some went back to Cool River, others stayed in the clinic, some went back to caregiver school, Krista taught another bunch of nursing students and Lex, Jeff and I went with a group to Lamardelle, a crèche (a temporary orphanage for children waiting to be adopted) where another medical/rehab clinic was set up. Gina Duncan, a Haitian who spent many years in Canada, does a remarkable job with the crèche, it is clean, organized and well-equipped and the children are darling! We went in to see two children with neurological involvement in between clinic times. The clinic itself ran fairly smoothly – we around 80 patients for a variety of general medical, orthopaedic and neurologic issues. Always a bit challenging to try to guess what we might need when packing the night before, then to get it loaded into (and onto) the vans and then figure out how to make do with what we have when inevitably we don’t have things that we need. Lots of patients with strokes and general deconditioning, as well as old orthopaedic injuries today. One of the hardest things is to convince the Haitian people of how to work to get better; I find they are often looking for the pill they can take. It was a long day and then a mad dash home to shower and change before a trip out the Resurrection Dance Theatre of the Saint Joseph Boy’s Home. Ana amazing evening of very talented dance and drumming presented entirely by boys who were rescued from street life. A wonderful evening and beautiful talent – what a gift.