update

We've (by the way, when I use "we" I mean the team of folks who work together on all of this. This includes the folks on the ground (henri, gladys, bobi, elsie and the American development folks - joel and mandy busby, chris hlavacek, etc - ) spent most of our time working on some behind the scenes stuff. The amount of desperate long-term needs that will emerge from the earthquake is truly staggering. Here's two thoughts:

1) Prosthetic limbs. Amputations have been so common in the last few weeks. Haiti is already a very difficult country for the crippled. Now, more so. We're working on a connection. Any feedback/contacts would be appreciated and welcomed.
2) In the months to come, we expect to see waves of malnourished children as a result of the removal of some many of the structures that were in place for acquiring food. Therefore, the nutrition program will be inundated. We purchased a truck this week. This had been identified as the first critical step in the expansion of the program from months ago. This allows the nutrition team to be more mobile. To this point, the moms and babies were mostly coming to us - some walking many as 7 hours. Now we can go to them. This is huge. Read "your partnership/donations really at work."

A few other things:

Medical team number 3 hit the ground yesterday. Dr. Ric is back in the US getting some rest before jumping back in. I hope to post an update from him ASAP.

Fundraising has gone really well. God has really brought together quite a bit of people for this. We're going to need all of it.

Thanks for checking back with us.