Marlon´s House Walls and El Barro
A good start today! Before breakfast, we walked one block down the street across from the mission house to see Marlon´s house. The construction crew was happy to see a foundation ready for block walls. It is a very small lot, surrounded by banana trees and Felix´s dad lives next door. The work went well, but the blocklaying was totally different than at home (per chief mason, Jake). The sand is very coarse and no lime is used to make the mortar workable. Tim Weaver worked with the construction crew to help translate details like where door and window openings were. We came home to sunburned tired guys (who had already started their laundry!).
The medical clinic was in El Barro, about 1.5hrs away, past Lake Yojoa, up muddy slippery roads. We set up in the school (no school for kids in January). MAMA has added new procedures with more stations to the clinics. It was the first time for the staff and obviously us to do additional things like test hemoglobin and hand out eye glasses. There was also new recordkeeping procedures. Once we got set up everything ran very smoothly. Beverly doubled up on the blood pressure, eyeglass stations, Ed discussed motor skill developments for babies up to 3 yrs with the moms, Mark and Marge did deworming and Vit A and Kelly did the hemoglobin finger stick. Dr. Sandra (MAMA staff) saw patients (106 today)and Barb and a translator did pharmacy. There was also a dentist.
Reflections on the day:
--did you know Ed Wyse has been studying Spanish for one year and is fairly fluent?
--neat to see the dentist´s excitement to use the new portable dentist chair and dental headlamp donated by a Souderton Mennonite SS class.
--appreciated the 3 translators that helped us today, Peter, David and Dani.
--San Franciso de Yojoa must be a happy town...fireworks for someone´s celebration at 4am this morning...we were ready to get up anyway. We are on Joe´s schedule...to bed at 9, up at 5am..
---thinking lots about Haiti and why people in poverty suffer.
Everyone healthy so far. Thanks for all your prayers!!
Barb for the team
The medical clinic was in El Barro, about 1.5hrs away, past Lake Yojoa, up muddy slippery roads. We set up in the school (no school for kids in January). MAMA has added new procedures with more stations to the clinics. It was the first time for the staff and obviously us to do additional things like test hemoglobin and hand out eye glasses. There was also new recordkeeping procedures. Once we got set up everything ran very smoothly. Beverly doubled up on the blood pressure, eyeglass stations, Ed discussed motor skill developments for babies up to 3 yrs with the moms, Mark and Marge did deworming and Vit A and Kelly did the hemoglobin finger stick. Dr. Sandra (MAMA staff) saw patients (106 today)and Barb and a translator did pharmacy. There was also a dentist.
Reflections on the day:
--did you know Ed Wyse has been studying Spanish for one year and is fairly fluent?
--neat to see the dentist´s excitement to use the new portable dentist chair and dental headlamp donated by a Souderton Mennonite SS class.
--appreciated the 3 translators that helped us today, Peter, David and Dani.
--San Franciso de Yojoa must be a happy town...fireworks for someone´s celebration at 4am this morning...we were ready to get up anyway. We are on Joe´s schedule...to bed at 9, up at 5am..
---thinking lots about Haiti and why people in poverty suffer.
Everyone healthy so far. Thanks for all your prayers!!
Barb for the team
posted by DRE MAMA Project at
1/14/2010 10:18:00 PM
2 Comments:
Enjoy receiving your updates...thanks!
Jeanette
Thanks for the updates! Glad everyone is healthy. I'm sure Chief Mason, Jake, and crew can work through the challenges with the mix! Didn't know Ed has been studying his Spanish....that's great. You all continue to be in our prayers!
Ken
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