We have gone through some changes in the last year in Haiti.  We are no longer staying at the House of Presence and have found a new  place to call home.  The Villa Fransesca is a part of the St Damien Hospital system and has made our time there a lot easier with 24 hour electricity and air-conditioning in the living quarters.  

We have welcomed Drs. Terri and Bob Brennan from Virginia and they will be a part of our medical staff going forward, they prefer to go in January and that has always been a tough slot for me to fill. 

We continue to work with Dr Kress from the University of Chicago and Dr Bracken and Dr Pletke have been going with us twice a year for a long time now.  Dr Rafferty has been on a number of trips as well.

We continue to see about 1000 patients each trip and continue to serve the rural communities that have become our home base.  Sister Diane is a RN and has spent most of her life doing third world medicine and she is an invaluable  part of our efforts with Santo Clinic.

Thank you to the Mille Lacs Health system for their continued support and to the hospital as a whole for all of the support and donations of Crocs and flip flops.  There are a number individuals locally and really across the midwest that continue to support us financially and we had a really dramatic response on the Go Fund Me site last year after the Hurricane.

The next trip is planned for late in January and we have 6 people committed to going, 4 from here, which means 8 suitcases and that means lots of room for the sandals and toys that have been donated.