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MEDICAL MISSION TO HAITI 2009

A Mission trip is a time when people go to another place -- to help people in another culture. Lois and Lin Roberts joined Dr. Randy Smith’s medical mission to Haiti on June 13 - 20.

Clinics were held at the Village of Hope, a school in the country east of Port-au-Prince (the capitol of Haiti). In four days, over 560 people were able to see a doctor and a dentist...for free.

There is very little health care in Haiti. The 590 students at the Village of Hope School are lucky! They have sponsors from other countries sending them to school and MISSIONS like this one to help take care of them.

After the medical team saw the children who were sick, the doctors opened the clinic to their parents and others from the countryside. One elderly woman was brought by MOTOCYCLE over bumpy roads for 4 HOURS to see the doctor!

School at the Village of Hope is a lot like ours -- they were just getting out for the summer too! We ate in the cafeteria with them, but that is where it is very different...

FOOD is scarce in Haiti. Many people go hungry. The children at Village of Hope School are fortunate because they get two meals a day -- breakfast and lunch. They even get a VITAMIN each day!

The children line up and are given a plate full of rice and beans. They have plastic plates and FRISBEES to hold their food. Some organization sent the school hundreds of Frisbees as toys, but the kitchen help soon found another use for them! "GOD is GOOD, he sent PLATES for the children's food!"

When they finish they take their plate to a plastic tub, throw the leftover rice and beans into the tub, and put their plate and spoon in another tub to be washed. The kitchen help collects the leftover food and packages it up for their families and for some of the students’ families. Food is scarce -- there is little waste in Haiti.

Thank you for the world so sweet,
Thank you for the food we eat,
Thank you for the birds that sing,
Thank you, God, for everything.