This past Thursday I (Mary) went with Ed Amos and a team of volunteers from the US to a do a medical clinic in the ourskirts of Port-au-Prince. Five minutes into the hour drive, our driver in the second vehicle, drove the vehicle into an open sewer hole. Even though it was a four wheel drive, it was unable to back out. There are many of these holes in Port-au-Prince. Some are manhole without a cover, others are open sewers right in the middle of the lane as this one was.


Ed had a tow strap in his vehicle and the dump truck that was following was kind enough to pull the vehicle out. After the 'accident', I volunteered to drive in that vehicle. One of the other passengers did not want to get back in the SUV after her experience. We arrived at our destination without any further problems. I did put my seat belt on though, a habit that I can not undo.




We arrived at an orphanage in BonRepo. It has been previously arranged for the medical team to see a hundred patients. Here you can see the 'pharmacy' being set up. The medicines are all prepackaged in weekly or monthly supplies. These medications are all given free since they have been donated for that reason.





Here you can see Ed Amos with one of the other volunteers checking a young patient. Many of these children are malnourished and they are all given vitamins for the next month.