Gary;

We have been anxiously waiting for word on when the Guest House at Leogane
and the Mobile Clinic program will once again be operational. Any requests I
have sent to this group about when we might expect the mobile clinic program
to be operational have not been answered. We need the support of the drivers
and interpreters as well as the staff at the guest house to function. I have
never receievd any word that we should hope to come to Leogane in April as
we had planned. I have a committed group of volunteers ready to go. We have
paid a deposit to the guest house. We are not worried by the situatation in
Haiti-- it's always been unstable. We have medications purchased and on
order. Is there a program in place???????

Emilie Hitron


>From: "Gary" <garylineparaison@...>
>Reply-To: hscenews@yahoogroups.com
>To: hscenews@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [hscenews] Very Important Message
>Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2006 20:59:54 -0000
>
>Dear Folks,
> I take the time to drop those few lines which I think will benefit
>you in a great deal in deciding about your coming trips to Haiti.
>So many of us are waiting for the election to take place, which is
>going to be the solution of the political unrest, and the time where
>Haiti will be well- suited to handle businesses and other
>activities. Election has been postponed for more than three times
>now, which I think is a lack of ability and knowledge of the Interim
>Government in leadership of this impoverished Nation. The big
>dilemma is not only Haiti loses her connections and resources on the
>national base but also on the international base. Many foreign
>business firms wish that they would open their business, but the
>election is thought to be the key of solution to their safety, which
>I think is not obvious.
>Haiti's political crisis would not stop unless the Haitian Government
>respects their promise to the Chimers, the gangs and the illiterates
>of this country. Their promise was to create thousands of jobs along
>with institutions that will dedicate to instruct the youth that are
>in illiteracy. The government has not worked on any of those promises
>to help those outside, in the streets, to survive and have a normal
>life. I am sure that so many people that are now involved in random
>acts and creating all those k-ass are those that are offered money
>and have no alternate sources of income, that is just an opinion, but
>remember that I live long enough there to be that persuasive.
>If you all are waiting for the election, and mean that Haiti's
>political climate will be better off for safety concerns, I am
>strongly denied you all are in error. The reason for that, so many
>people are now dieing with hypertension, and their health condition
>becomes ten times aggravated than before. I am sending this letter
>not to be opinionated but instead to persuade you in thinking.
>I was going over the pictures taken in mobile clinics along those
>with NCP. The face of those elders along with kids and young adults
>that Mission Groups used to treat tells me that they badly need your
>help than ever. I assume there are so many of them that are already
>dead due to hypertension, malaria, TB, and other serious related
>diseases. Your mobile clinics usually take place in the villages
>around Leogane along in the most rural areas that have no medical
>agencies to help. We all feel that the work benefits the peasants,
>the literates along the elites in a great deal. Even government
>agencies used to come and take a chance of those free drugs/
>consultations in your clinics. Your clinics do not take places around
>P-AU-P neither in the palace. None of you have ever had a clinic in
>Cite Soleil before. I am requesting that you plan another angle to
>schedule your trips. Going through the Jacmel road to get to Leogane
>will be the best way to start saving life. Remember that you are
>accompanied with five brave translators, Jean Mary Cheridor, Mario
>Guerrier, Little Mario, Evans Cheridor, and Peter Silmilhomme, who do
>not take any pressure from anyone. Do not assume of any risk while a
>clinic is taking in the villages.
>I am requesting that you stop planning as the election goes. It is
>not a prepaid that says," Pay a you Go".
>In this last paragraph, I am requesting that you all take just a few
>seconds to think of mobile clinics as well with your work you have
>done in a mobile clinic, to see how important you are to those
>patients along those in the Hospitals.
>Think of how many times patients are fighting, crying, and suffering
>in mobile clinic, which indicates a having a mobile clinic is more
>than money that you can give them. After thinking, I want you to log
>on HCE-NEWS and go to the links and starting viewing mobile clinics
>and see how important that you are to them, and how many lives you
>have saved. I am sure you will remember faces of those who incurred
>serious health conditions. If you do, be prepared to go start
>planning for your trips.
>Let `s keep doing God's works as Tom Anderson says, and we will see
>how secure He will keep us in doing so.
>May God bless your future trips in Haiti!
>Be Blessed,
>Jean Gary Paraison
>Former- Mobile Clinic Coordinator/Head Translator @ Ste. Croix
>Hospital
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