My aunt writes books on marketplaces in France and I promised I would post some pictures of the markets of Haiti! The markets are all very crowded and bustling with all kinds of people. From my vantage point in the bus I see a lot of bartering andgoods being exchanged. People sell everything from food to car parts and everything in between. Here are the pictures.
Almost all packed and ready to go! Thank you all for your donations. I have managed to fit everything( including 15 pounds of paper and a 25 pound bag of plaster) into 2 suitcases weighing just 50 lbs each. I can't wait to get to Haiti! ( this is the view from my " bedroom")
First day of clinic! What a day. Controlled chaos with over 130 patients seen by 30 PTs in a 6-7 hour period. To give you a better picture of the clinic I have attached a picture at the bottom of it before the patients came in. It is about 800 square feet with 14 beds. There are 30 therapists, 30 interpreters and more than 30 patients and heir family members milling around the clinic at any given time.... all these people while we are doing gait training, family training for transfers , bracing trials and orthopedic interventions. That is what I mean by controlled chaos. Although I am constantly bumping into people and saying" excuse me" I would not have it any other way. If I have a moment of down time I look to the therapist next to me and 100 percent of the time they are performing an intervention I have not seen before. I look two feet beyond that therapist and see another therapist teaching a PT how to do walk using techniques I had read about but never seen. All the bo...
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