Monday, June 20, 2011

photos - jacksonville medical team - part 7

A young mother and her hydrocephalus baby have been staying here since the May hydrocephalus surgeries. Her baby had post-op infection problems and has a shunt. The mother is young; only 19 years-old and lives in Cote-de-Fer. She is going to stay here for a few months until her baby is stable and healthy. Until then Jansika's mother gives her direction on how to look after a baby since this is this mother's first child. Pray for the both of them. She is thankful to be here.

I enjoy meeting the people in the community who come to the clinics. The next photos show the different age groups who come for medical care.


Jn. Eddy's mother is a determined woman. She now has an apartment but is scared to sleep inside and still has a tent in the Henfrasa refuge camp on Delmas 33. Pray she overcomes her fear of buildings. She can't live in a refuge camp forever. I wonder how many more people like her there are here in Port-au-Prince, who choose to sleep in a refuge camp.


Jn. Eddy helps out his mother and younger family members from the money he makes here as a teacher. He also strives to do well in university. He is almost finished his 1st year of his accounting studies.


This young boy lives in a near-by and is not shy. His baby sister was born with clubbed feet.

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