Morning Rises over Deschapelles
Bonswa all - Many, many thanks for all your prayers and words of support during the last 3 weeks. I arrived home around 10pm Saturday night and am slowly working my head around getting myself back into the Western World. It was a wonderful and challenging 3 weeks. There were many opportunities to teach which felt really good and sustainable. I taught rehab techniques to nurses in the northern town of Cap Haitian the first week, and split the second 2 weeks between teaching in the rehab technician training program at HAS and working with the Hanger team in the amputee rehab program. There is some amazing work being done there - http://www.hanger.com/Pages/JayTewHaitiBlog.aspx for more details. The patients are incredible, they are so strong and so determined and do so well in spite of every wall they are up against. The tech students are eager and hard working and we had a lot of fun teaching the pediatric portion of the course. There are lots of joys and lots of obstacles and lots of work still to be done. It was bittersweet to head home to all the creature comforts we know here. Life is so green and lush it almost hurts my eyes. Thank you for all your prayers, please keep them coming as the work is only beginning. It is wonderful to see the Haitian people starting to take on some of their own solutions but there is much training that needs to be done. Thank you to each one of you who made this trip possible - through donations, prayers and support. Those who are able to go are only able to do so because of the support of those who stay behind.
Bonwet - mesi anpil. Lauren
"May God bless you with the foolishness to think you can make a difference in the world,
so that you will do the things which others tell you can not be done."
