I am leaving Haiti for the airport with no suitcase; and most of what I did have with me as carry-on luggage I am leaving behind. I cannot tell you how freeing and calming it feels to be leaving with nothing but a purse essentially. I am reminded of the verse in the gospel of Mark that [...]

The OnCall team was joined by a medical team from Boston at a new location that was at an abandoned house that had an empty swimming pool. The once glamorous, empty, deserted pool with three boys playing in it looked bizarrely out-of-place next to the depressing tents. The OnCall Team went to see the six metal houses that the BrickThink [...]

We are closing in on the end of our week so let me jump right in! So far, the OnCall Team has seen approximately 700 patients. This morning we went back to the smaller Tent City Clairville to finish seeing patients there. As it would be our last day there, one of our hosts, Sylvie, walked [...]

Today our team of eight was reduced to seven as one of the doctors needed to head back to NYC. We said our goodbyes and after praying we loaded up the truck to make our way again through the roads of dust and rubble back to Mega4 Tent City. The drive is kind of like air turbulence on the [...]

Here we are at Tuesday DAY 4 and we are living full 24 hour days with short sleep stops in between. You may think that perhaps that is an exaggeration, but it is not. My comrades our counting pills for our pharmacy and syringes and needles  as I write. Today we saw over 200 patients and as [...]