Haiti Work Teams: Cholera!

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Cholera!

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Cholera Continues

Monday update - FROM REAL HOPE FOR HAITI

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Written by Licia and Lori -
I have started this post several times now trying to get into words what we at RHFH are feeling tonight. We are very overwhelmed. Even through the flood, earthquake and many other large challenges we have faced we are feeling more right now. We see no real end in sight. We see the need growing. We see many, many people that are in great need of help with cholera. We are not slackers. We plan ahead for supplies and try to keep up. We try our best. But when the numbers increase as fast as they are we are having a difficult time keeping ahead. We will be out of IV fluids tomorrow by noon. But… CAM (Christian Aid Ministries) has a load for us to pick up early tomorrow morning. We are so thankful to them for helping us over, and over and over again. Always with a cheerful heart.
We knew yesterday that the numbers were picking up as we ran out of chairs for people to sit in.

In this small little yard, donated by a person in the Cazale community, many lives are being touched.

Tonight we had 101 people at the 6pm bed count. There has been several others admitted after 6pm. We have 67 cots. I think you can figure out where that puts us tonight with beds and sleeping. Several people to each cot. Literally people everywhere.

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Mission Statement

Haiti Work Teams is committed to improving the quality of life for the Haitian people by offering sound construction techniques and assitance in building projects. Projects considered would be schools, clincis, hospitals, solar storage, wells, water storage, septic systems, trash containment and waste removal. In the medical arena, Haiti Work Teams will assist existing medical missions and provide speciality teams in the fields of general medicine, OB-GYN, nutrition, dentistry, and vision care.

Our Beginning in 1980

Steve and Sheila Scheib first visited Haiti in 1980 as part of a construction and medical work team. After several more trips, we were asked to fill in for missionaries, Don and Doris Peavey, while they went on furlough. So, in March of 1988 we returned with our 3 children for a one year commitment at the Ebenezer Glenn Orphange in Marchand Dessalines. The time was a mixed blessing, in that physically the time was exhausting; not enough hours in the day to get everything done that needed to be done; but spiritually, our faith was stretched in ways that only other missionaries could relate to. Growth was obtained through the trials that God allowed to come our way. Our faith grew and our sense of security was in the Savour of the World who had called us to Haiti. When the Peaveys returned the following year, we returned to the states in April of 1989. We have continued over the years to return to Haiti as often as possible.