Update on funds for the ICU nannies

We are happy to let you know that the need for the ICU nannies salaries for 6 more month has been met!!!!  They are excited that they can continue to help so many of our sick kids.  I love these ladies and they work hard to provide the best care they can for

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Updates on Nerline and Fanise

  Two weeks ago, Lori shared the incredible story of Nerline.  We have good news to report about this sweet child.  She has gained two pounds and is eating well enough to have had her NG tube removed last week.  The swelling in her eyes is going down, and she

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New Admits to the RC

 We have had a rough few weeks with the kids in the Rescue Center.  In the past 2 1/2 weeks we have lost 9 kids.  In one day we lost three.  It has been rough.  It has been hard.  We have cried.  We have continued.   We had one day we had

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Medika Mamba

It has been a few months since we last did a Medika Mamba update.  The program has been going strong since  May of 2009.  We have been administering the medika mamba each and every day since then.  Here are our current stats Children currently on the program 10 Children that

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Nerline

Over the fourteen years that I’ve been practicing nursing here in Haiti, I’ve seen a ridiculous amount of gross, crazy, and sad things, but nothing tears my heart out like the children with really severe malnutrition.  They bring me to question the reason for so much misery and suffering in

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We need a little extra help..

It has been well over a year now since we opened the ICU tent.  This tent is where we keep the sickest kids.  The ones that are knocking on death’s door.  The ones that need 24/7  care.  The ones that we do not think are going to make it.  We started

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