Arrived yesterday,safely, after being awakened at 3AM by the airline cancelling one of our scheduled flights. Half an hour on the phone with the airline and we were rescheduled ith only a 15 minute difference from the original schedule! We ended up connecting with the Indiana group in Miami since we ended up on different flights in Chicago.

Today we went to clinic and cleaned up the area so it was usable and jumped right in. A note on the cleaning....I got the privilege of cleaning several drawers of supplies that had been destroyed by mice and rats. You all know how that smells???!!!!!!!!!!! If not, it's far from a pleasant odor, and it hangs with you for a while!

We were quite pleased to see that a lot of progress is being made in the cleanup effort. Walls and buildings are being repaired, and lots are being cleared of rubble. We got a chuckle out of their "safety cones". They are using large rocks or cinderblock chunks with branches tucked into them to set a safty zone up along the roads where they are working.

Got a blessing reconnecting with some of our former interpreters. Also saw a few patients we had seen the last time we were here.

It was a light clinic day as we were really not planning to see patients today. The plan was to organize and clean for tomorrow. But we know that plans are always subject to change here.
Tomorrows plan is to do school physicals which are long overdue due to the earthquakes. The children are back to school, and their classrooms have changed. The church area as well as a large tent are now being used for classes. The former classrooms are currently being used for storage. The hospital footers are in the process of being built when the weather doesn't interfere. Currently the footers are under water from the rain. Pastor Pierre is concerned that the rebar will be weakened by the resulting rust.

They( Nehemiah Vision Ministries with the aid of Global Aid International) are also in the process of building dormitories and a commercial kitchen to care for the 3 teams of college students expected to arrive in June to work for the summer. The dormitories and kitchen will later be used to house the work teams like ours that come to Chambrun. That will make for some major changes in the future!!
Storage areas are in the works also. A warehouse type building will be constructed from shipping containers as the walls, and roofed over to close in the space. Things are changing, and quickly!!

Lots going on here in Haiti!!

Blessings to all!!
Tim and Cindy