Tag Archives: Partners in Health (PIH)

Grand Rapids Was Here

3/19/10 As I write this we are en route back home to Grand Rapids courtesy of the Whirlpool Corporate Jet.  That fact alone is no small achievement today as the drive from Double Harvest to the airport was interesting. The rainy season seems to have begun in Haiti and about 100 yards from leaving the gates [...]

Getting Reorganzied

Hello all, To sum it up, today has been a learning day.  First of all we weren’t quite sure if we were on daylights savings time or not.  A few of us were ready to go round at 6am….after a quick google search we realized we could have slept another hour!  We all realize how [...]

Thanks for support in Haiti and back home – Dr. Matelic

Home tomorrow. We went to Port-au-Prince today and visited the university hospital.  It is the only standing med center in the city.  We saw all the destruction first hand and drove through the busiest, noisiest, and dirtiest city I have ever seen.  We actually wore face masks to protect us from the smoke, stench of [...]