Medical Clinic News

MEDICAL CLINIC BECOMING A REALITY

Spring 2018, we broke ground for a medical facility for the people of Île-à-Vache! The facility has come a long way! We continue to seek funding for this new facility. We are now furnishing the exam and patient rooms, waiting areas, offices, and the rooms that will house visiting medical workers.

Upon completion of this clinic, we will also be seeking doctors, nurses and other health care workers to staff the facility for extended periods of times (weeks/months).

See our journey below!

Breaking Ground and Beginning the Work

A dream becoming a reality. Construction of the medical clinic commences. Thank you God!	Grace School in the far background.	Shovel and picks making the portals possible.
No modern equipment here.	Laying out the perimeters!	It's all manual labor here!
	"Bring your daughter to work day".	Using a school bench as a work bench; this crew of men shape the metal for the portals of the medical clinic. Simple tools and sheer physical strength make this possible!
So many people now have a job to feed their families as the work at the medical clinic begins.	No time at the gym needed following a work day in Haiti!
Nothing fancy needed to start the work!
	The metal work done under the mango trees at Grace Orphanage are now being put into place at the clinic site. Hard, hard, work.	So many hands involved.

Foundation and Walls

Foundation

A "real" machine is rented to compact the sand in the foundation.

Progress

Some coral from Île-à-Vache was able to be used for the foundation. The jagged edges will cling tightly to the cement.

Every five or six blocks high are required to have horizontal rebar installed for more strength during an earthquake.

2019 JANUARY - the building is starting to take shape.

EXCITING .. the second floor walls are going up.

Rooms are now visible on the second floor.

Second floor nearly done.

2019 AUGUST - The blue of the ocean and the green of the foliage surround the clinic site!

Putting The Roof On

A worker on the roof is bringing a wheelbarrow full of cement to workers.

Empty pail comes down the wire from the roof to the work crew below for refilling.

Hundreds of workers were required for the job.

Filled buckets of cement are handed up, person to per person, to the roof on makeshift ladders.

The yellow containers are filled with water and transported by mules to the work site. The water is needed in the making of the cement.

Filled buckets of cement are handed up, person to person, to the roof on makeshift ladders.

In addition to the many workers on the roof and on the ladder, there were also many workers on the roof.

Hundreds of workers were required for the job - water haulers, cement mixers, getting buckets filled with cement to the workers on the ladder, roof workers putting the cement in place and persons to send the bucket down for a refill.