PEACE*LOVE*HAITI fall truck fund!
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This will be Peace*Love*Haiti's 18th Medical Mission!!!
We are planning to go back to Lacoma, a beautiful but extremely rural area in northwest Haiti. No, you will not find it on a map, but it is close to Jean Rabel. We have been to this area many times and our hearts have taken up residence....
We are a small and mighty team this trip~~~ Tricia Mattson & Julie Zimmerman, RNs; Les McAuley, medic/logistician; and Kervens D, super fab translator.
(Dr Mark will be in Haiti a week prior- check out out all our plans! http://peacelovehaiti.blogspot.com/ )
Before heading toLacoma we will spend a few days in the big city of Port au Prince doing mobile clinics and focusing on children.
There is no public transportation to the Lacoma (except private plane); we have to bring all of the medications, medical supplies, food, water, etc that we need for ourselves and to run clinic during our stay. A truck is our only option and with our small team one truck is perfect.
It takes us at least 7 hours to drive up from Port au Prince. We rent 4 wheel drive diesel trucks- due to erosion and lack of maintenance many of the roads are mighty "rustic".
The road north of Gonaive is truly more like an ATV trail in Minnesota/Wisconsin- except there are donkeys, cacti, lots of people walking.... and plenty o goats.
The trucks are a HUGE expense for us!!!
They cost $115 a day each. The rental company that we have used for years just closed and now we need to pay an even larger daily rate.
We pay for our own airfare to get to Port au Prince, we pay for food/lodging (team house), we pay our translators and drivers, we use our vacation time at work to get the days off to come here.
We need help with our gas and truck rental!
We need a truck to get us where we need to go!!!
HELP!!!
Please support us with a donation if you can and are willing.... please don't forget this area of the world in your thoughts and prayers today.
ONE LOVE
(many times we use the truck to transport patients to a higher level of care.... and sometimes we even give a goat a ride!)
If you don't want to go thru gofundme you can mail us a check directly or use plain old cash money!
We are planning to go back to Lacoma, a beautiful but extremely rural area in northwest Haiti. No, you will not find it on a map, but it is close to Jean Rabel. We have been to this area many times and our hearts have taken up residence....
We are a small and mighty team this trip~~~ Tricia Mattson & Julie Zimmerman, RNs; Les McAuley, medic/logistician; and Kervens D, super fab translator.
(Dr Mark will be in Haiti a week prior- check out out all our plans! http://peacelovehaiti.blogspot.com/ )
Before heading toLacoma we will spend a few days in the big city of Port au Prince doing mobile clinics and focusing on children.
There is no public transportation to the Lacoma (except private plane); we have to bring all of the medications, medical supplies, food, water, etc that we need for ourselves and to run clinic during our stay. A truck is our only option and with our small team one truck is perfect.
It takes us at least 7 hours to drive up from Port au Prince. We rent 4 wheel drive diesel trucks- due to erosion and lack of maintenance many of the roads are mighty "rustic".
The road north of Gonaive is truly more like an ATV trail in Minnesota/Wisconsin- except there are donkeys, cacti, lots of people walking.... and plenty o goats.
The trucks are a HUGE expense for us!!!
They cost $115 a day each. The rental company that we have used for years just closed and now we need to pay an even larger daily rate.
We pay for our own airfare to get to Port au Prince, we pay for food/lodging (team house), we pay our translators and drivers, we use our vacation time at work to get the days off to come here.
We need help with our gas and truck rental!
We need a truck to get us where we need to go!!!
HELP!!!
Please support us with a donation if you can and are willing.... please don't forget this area of the world in your thoughts and prayers today.
ONE LOVE
(many times we use the truck to transport patients to a higher level of care.... and sometimes we even give a goat a ride!)
If you don't want to go thru gofundme you can mail us a check directly or use plain old cash money!Organisateur
Julie Louise
Organisateur
Duluth, MN