Women in Charge

Yesterday we finally gave away the backpacks that families from Rye collected for Gampson’s school children. The storage room at the Midwives for Haiti house that housed our 600 pounds of donatables is finally looking sparse. Over the course of the week...

It’s 10pm on Day 4 of our trip and I am finally able to sit down and jot down a few thoughts. It is hot. Haiti hot. Hard-to-fall-asleep-at-night hot. Two-showers-a-day hot. Sticky. Sweaty. Hot.
A good morning at the Azil. Tyler is working on a mural of a church that will be scenery for a play. The tall, slender, French nun, Sister Schwe, is full of ideas. She wants to do a play. When we had arrived, a young boy named Stevenson was putting together...

Mother Theresa’s order of nuns run feeding centers and orphanages around the world. In Hinche, they have a feeding center where they take in malnourished children, nurture them back to health, and then send them home to their families. Some children...

As I sit on the veranda at the Midwives for Haiti house, all is right with the world. Let’s just say, all is right with my world. After postponing the trip due to a fuel hike that caused rioting and protests in the streets in Port-Au-Prince, we got the...