Sandy II

It's still raining in Petite Riviere today, yet people are beginning to dig out of the mud.  Actually, you don't have much choice if you don't have anywhere else to sleep.  In Haiti, if you have a house at all, you  consider yourself fortunate.   If you have a cement floor and metal roof, you are even better off.   And if you ride out a hurricane without being inundated with mud or your roof being blown off, you thank God for your blessings.   Haitians are known for their resilience.   One just wishes that it wasn't tested quite so often. 

Meanwhile, the upper part of Visitation Clinic's road is washed out and impassable for 4-wheel vehicles.  Our latest email brings this: 

"Flooding increase in town and access to the clinic becomes worse. Despite of that, we are open to receive emergency patients and we received this morning a baby of 4 months who was really bad and couldn't breath, we did the best for him and he's feeling better now but we do keep him for a while and will tranfer him later" - Killy