Still here

Hey we are still here. WFP has been delivering food to our village and that has been a blessing. We have a lot of TB and malnutrition patients in the hospital and are borrowing beds. This is John, we take him home once in a while to give him some extra care. He is not too happy with what is being done to his hair during bath time. His mom died and here in Haiti that is often fatal for her children. During the first month that we where here we lost 3 kids in one week to malnutrition. They just come to the hospital too late... The Doctor and Nurses are now scouting the villages in the surrounding area to try and locate some of these cases before they are so far gone but it is difficult to get away from the hospital. They are trying to take a look at all the kids in the area by having them come in to be weighed. We now have lights in the hospital hallway thanks to some dilligent work by several electricians (you know who you are) and some borrowed solar panels. This is very important because it reduces our use of oil lamps which are dangerous flame wise and breathing wise and are expensive. We still need to get some low wattage led bulbs for the individual rooms and hope to have them by December so that we can completely eliminate the oil lamps from the hospital.

Also of note, Annelies and I got engaged the 4th of September in the Netherlands. I had meant to make an announcement on the blog but things have been busy here. We plan to get married June 10th 2008!