More information

We talked to Dr. Dan Snyder on the phone tonight and he gave us a lot more information to help us feel a little more comfortable. (One interesting tidbit - Dan is the son of Dr. Al Snyder who Greg worked with in Central Africa in the early 70's.)


A few more details about Dessalines, the hospital, the people.... the hospital has become a refugee center in the last few years from the '04 flood, political unrest and now the earthquake. One third of the population lived in Port-au-Prince so everyone knows someone. Please pray for the pharmacist at the hospital who lost 16 family members and the administrator who lost a daughter. The earthquake, on top of these other events have created much hopelessness among the people. They smile, he said, but they're sad. Dessalines has been a major area for voodoo worship and the nights had been loud with drums and noise before the earthquake. The nights are quiet now, he says. The churches are full.


We will be involved in a four-fold plan:
1) Manage the teams that come down. While we're there this time, there will be a surgical team from Michigan and a trio of women coming down for grief counseling.
2) Maintenance - a dream or a nightmare, he said. However you want to look at it. Hm, sounds like something right up Greg's alley, eh?
3) Grief counseling at the hospital with translators and tips from these women. And we can wear scrubs at the hospital. Whoa!
4) Organize pharmacy and central control


They have a plan to supply two tool shops. They would be very happy for any tools we could bring and leave there. Hm, I wonder if we have a few of those around?

We had an AWESOME Open House at SE Tools tonight! We think we had 200 people come through. The shop was so clean, so organized,...what great people helped to make it happen! We're proud of all of them! We had a raffle for great prizes, the first hotdogs of the season, awesome tour guides, a couple of massage therapists, and lots of tools to show off and sell! Great fun!