Beautiful Haitian countryside
If you are waiting for your sponsor child letter and photo, we appreciate your patience. It takes alot of time for me to translate all 180 letters and then the system here is very slow to get them all scanned and resized so they are ready to email. Between painting, helping with a myriad of things for Karen, photographing kids, and doing board business, I have had little time to translate so I am only half done. I promise to get them out to you as soon as possible. We are going to try and save even more of the hard-earned money you donate to HATS by sending out the photos and letters by email. We would encourage you to print out both at home so you can see the smiling face of your sponsor child from the front of your fridge.
We are leaving in less than 6 hours and I still have some administrative things to get done, so I must go so I will get into bed before I have to get up again at 3:30 am to be on the road.
Full moon in Haiti
Raising the Haitian flag
Au revoir, Haiti cheri!
4 comments:
Your work and efforts are commendable, all of you on the team. Safe travels home. Stay warm!!
Hugs,
Elaine
It is sad to say goodbye to everyone and it is sad for them to see you go. Sad for Karen to see you all go for sure, too.
Thank you to all of you for all your hard work and I am sure you will never forget your experiences and your new friends.
Hope you don't freeze when you get home!
Thanks for all the work you accomplished and for loving the children and staff.
Incorrect ORS Mixing Instructions on Posters in Haiti
Posters showing incorrect instructions for making an oral rehydration solution using salt, sugar and water are being widely distributed by the Ministry of Public Health and other organizations in Haiti.
Half (1/2) teaspoon of Salt and Six (6) teaspoons of Sugar should be dissolved in 1 Litre of water. (Not 1 Gallon of water as the poster says) For further clarification, please see: http://factsforlifeglobal.org/07/5.html
The mixture, using the proportions that are suggested in the poster, would be too weak to do much good in rehydrating a dehydrated child.
The following actions need to be taken immediately:
1. The current posters need to be withdrawn and replaced.
2. A communications campaign to inform everybody locally that the old poster had incorrect information and they should use 1 Litre and not 1 Gallon.
Your help is requested to inform everybody in Haiti of the correct way to make this life-saving solution.
Thank you.
nand
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