My experience leading a BOC team in Haiti

What an awesome time and experience it was taking another Team to Haiti with Bread of Compassion May 28 – June 6, 2010. We went to the Island of La Gonave, a beautiful place with wonderful, but very needy people, forgotten in the relief efforts due mostly to logistical problems.  In two days of clinic, we saw 270 people. Eleven people were tended to who would have died within a day. Many were tended to who would have died in the near future. We were also able to help out some desperately needy people in the island’s hospital.
 
After returning to the mainland, we did two days of clinics in the Community Clinic at Turbe’, just outside of Croix de Bouquets. Besides caring for a couple of hundred people with all of their medical needs, we were able to help the clinic out financially. We also helped out at a local orphanage with many assorted things, including health and hygiene teaching.
 
Once again, the Team was excellent. Everyone worked together and went above and beyond the norm in helping and ministering to the people of Haiti. Because of that, I firmly believe that everyone involved got more back than they gave. Lives were changed forever, both here and there, and the memories for most will last a lifetime. Thank you Bread of Compassion!
 
God Bless,
Joe Crowley