We visited Haiti Village Health today in Bod du Mer near Bas Limbe which is about an hour away from us, located in a small fishing village north west of Morne Rouge. It was beautiful and we couldn’t help but to jump in and swim twenty minutes across the bay to a small uninhabited island…in our clothes. FYI scrubs pants and shoes (worn because there are so many sea urchins) make swimming MUCH more difficult, but still well worth it. We had gone out to talk about sending our Haitian midwife Marie to teach educational classes for the Matrons in the area twice a month, following a program designed by the ministry of health years ago. It was a great meeting and I think that this collaboration will be beneficial for not only both organizations but also for the local Matrons who often have no formal training but who are the main caregivers for pregnant mamas here in Haiti. I really hope this can continue here in Morne Rouge too as we have so many Matrons who are seeking these educational materials which were once provided to them but are now withheld as the presiding forces decided that they didn’t want Matrons delivering babies so they stopped the trainings but as one could have predicted this didn’t result in less births with Matrons, just less birth with formally educated Matrons. No good, pa bon, boo.
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| Haiti Village Health clinic outside of Bas Limbe in Bod du Mer |
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| they do amazing work for the community, a rural fishing village |
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| touring the grounds of their clinic, they will be adding a new building soon! |
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| So nice to be back with my second family which includes Marie our head Haitian midwife |
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