DP's daughter
Brooms for sale
Lonnie & Deb organizing at the Prophete's home b/t teams
Fear of Red Hats Mixed with Joy
Cindy....no fear....
Jim says hi...Ed is focused back there!
Brian is ready for a week of adventure
Hoping on the bus
Pam on the first night
Counting meds
Pam playing in finger paints
Jim taking pictures of himself
Dinner time
Great food
Doug (Ped MD), Guesly (Family MD) , Jim (CRNA)
Brian , guitar man
A sponsored family joined us
Wendy at home with a child on her lap
Cindy trying to explain to the rooster why we need sleep?
Melanie with a bay
Zachary on drums at church
Brian leading the group song
We are nervous!
Guesly & Lonnie after church
Getting to know people after church
Jill w/ her sponsored child
Guesly and Dorlus
The wind felt great
Brian eating sugar cane
Cindy at home w/ a kid. Cindy is a Ped NP
Pam meets her sponsored child
Pastor prophete interprets
Pam & her sponsored teen
Meal time (& Coke!)
Cathy's sponsored child playing soccer
Lonnie, Pat & Deb at the salt lake
Brian and Jesse in the lake
Shirley & Jim
Brian playing
Brotherly love
Pam & Jill behaving...Cindy...not so much
Pool at the salt lake
Translators at the lake
Brian drying off
Local boys joined us, and Zachary
Newlyweds Chris & Ashley
Rose, Eva & Jim
Brian & Ed
The cliff is the beginning of the Dominican Republic
Toro! Toro!
Drying off
Looking at fish in the pool
More money than sense?
Jesus puppet...w/ braided hair
Impromtu singing
Jim in our room
Waiting for our first village trip
Will the bus start?
Riding through Wyclef's hometown
We'll go up that road
Erosion
Dry river bed
Looking down on the valley
Over the small lake
I chose NOT to use this....fyi
My team, awesome!
Becky w/ puppets
Watch Mac scare them, cute!
Emily & Mac w/ puppets
Kids loved the puppets
Lady who happend to be wearing our uniform
Lonnie getting some air
Brian, Jim & Daniel at triage
Jill in pharmacy, Emily people moving
Brian cleaning the ear thermometer
Action pose
eating goat (ick)
Teaching handwashing
Teaching evangelism
Triage
They made us juice in a kitty liter container
Climbing the stairs to see the doc
Jim w/ a child who loved the puppets
Brenda brought the puppets
Look at the girls faces in the blue....
The village cooked for us. The red is beet potato salad
You pee in the cement groove & I did!
Pretty sunset
again
It kept changing
I was thrilled w/ it, ask Brian
Me taking a pic to show Jim his white blob on his face
Beyond Mountains, there are mountains
Driving on a dry river bed
Through the river
People bathing
Up the river bed
The pick up truck crew
Our photographer Deb
Lonnie, Deb & Melanie enjoying the view
Jim & Brian waiting for the truck to be fixed
And enjoying the view
Love Deb taking the photo on the rock
Some local boys who got clothing and rice
Dad isn't sure what happened
He enjoyed it!
Even in a remote village, there's hip hop...
Jim trying to find Abley
Dorlus and Rose planning the flow
Chas, our MD getting ready
School in Fond Verrettes
Look how lush!
Lunch time
$30 a month makes this happen through HCMsupport.org
Our sponsored child Abley (on left)
Our new friends
Jim & I with Abley, his brother & mother.
Jim & Abley playing soccer.
Brian taking a picture of his new "nephew"
Our sponsored child Abley on the left w/ his little brother
Jim trying not to double over after our sponsored child beaned him
Jim & Abley
Girls' bathroom
Boys' bathroom
Entering Fond Verettes
Fond Verettes Sign
Driving down the river bed
The reason we donate shoes!
Passing a truck tap tap
Alfonse...or Alphonse...? Great driver!
The breakdown where DP fixed the car w/ plastic that blew by
Kids in the village when we broke down, asking for food
Leaving Fond Verrette
In Pharmacy
Man was shot in Dom. Repub. his 4 friends were shot, chopped up and burned. This man crawled into Haiti for rescue. Following up at our clinic.
Madeline making puppets for the kids
Entertaining the kids while the parents are in clinic.
Brian
Figi posing for us
The Christ Church at Mason (Ohio) photo
Take another just in case...
Brian pointing out he's the only TRUE Cincinnatian there!
Sardinia Ohio women join the Cincinnati group
Daniel joins all of us as he and Angie will marry this spring and attend Cinti. Christian University!
Angie, Daniel and Emily
Becky joins them. Becky is Emily's mother.
Angie and Daniel
DP , Figi and Dr. Guesly singing for us.
Rose is an RN in Fla. and is Haitian. She was a tremendous help with pharmacy/ education. She even led a young girl to be saved. Great job Rose!
Our favorite family from Oregon.
Our Team 1 group B team. Great job guys!
DP , Daniel and Angie
DP would have this guitar thing figured out by the evening. He has a great mind!
Pat, Wendy, Thonny, Allison and Amanda
Dr. Chas. and Betty Lyons from Indy
The Oslers from Mason Ohio
Emily & Lonnie
Our favorite Lonnie pose: Everything will be ok!
Jesse, 17, and Madeline, 15. Great teens!
DP likes the guitar
We had a very skilled team of translators
And very skilled drivers!
Our translating team
Dorlus joined the group!
Dorlus and James (Jims)
Thony, Mac and Daniel
Ribinson, Tosh, Josee and Thonny
Team 1 guys whose names I will screw up!
The wood working shop
All of our luggage
Brian and Melanie
Leaving Fond Parisien
At the hotel
Brenda & Ed from Georgia
Chas., Chris, his new bride, Ashley and Jim
Our bus for shopping
Home Depot in Haiti
Some housing on a hill.
A STOP sign....rare.....
The President did not feel the pain of the people....
Statue
Museum
Tom & Jerry's pizza
That bottle was left there. Pam had not taken up drinking.
Pat eyeballing her pizza
Jim eating. Me, not. I had kids pressed against the door starring at me and begging. The place had an armed guard...'nuff said.
School boys came in and flirted with this table of women.
Halloween party sign
Paramedical school....
Turkeys in the market
Guesley eating something like a grape. Loved how the elderly lady ran to him to get him these.
I don't think this was what Dr. King had in mind....
Houses really packed on the hill!
Closer view
She had a turkey on her head and 1 in each hand
The guy in yellow with glasses is Pastor Prophete and Betty's son
Lonnie & Deb haggling in the market
Inside a bakery
At the pool before dinner
Jill, Pam & Ashley
The restaurant
Emily, Becky, Angie and me.
Our group took up the whole area
Daniel's family
Leaving the hotel for the airport
I guess he's the 44th president and they have 44 on the bottle? This was at the airport
Brian w/ his new soccer jersey!