Haiti

We woke up early to head out to Mirebalais to celebrate with our friends at Partners in Health and their Haitian sister organization Zanmi Lasante. We arrived on time for Sunday mass at the new teaching hospital, Hôpital Universitaire de Mirebalais.

The set up at the house is dorm style. We are sharing a room on the ground floor with Cara. Clancy was assigned the top bunk since she is the youngest. There are seven bedrooms and lots of beds. This place can sleep 15 if necessary. There are always volunteers coming through and staying for various periods of time. Many return annually and have done so consistently since the beginning. Sage Femmes Pou Ayiti has come a long way, even since last year.

We left NYC early yesterday morning and arrived just 3.5 hours later in to Port au Prince, Haiti. It's crazy to imagine that in such a short time period you can feel as if you are a world away.

We were talking with Kathryn Hall-Trujillo about helping to get some of her safe birth kits to a clinic in Haiti when we visit there this month. We couldn’t stop chatting and pretty soon Kathryn’s sharing her remarkable career story starting with the time she moved out of the Oakland bus station and into a UCLA dorm room with her two children.