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Medical Trip – November 2017
November 7-14, 2017 Medical Expedition to Haiti. Doctors, dentists, nurses and lay people travel to Haiti to provide care to our schools and rural communities. Please consider donating to support our dental and medical team!
Why we do what we do….
Yesterday morning after hiking through some rolling hills we arrived at our Kenscoff school. Already many were waiting for us. One woman in particular stood out. She barley seemed to be able to sit up let alone stand. She was pale and very ill. She was seen...
The Challenge
Tomorrow 15 dedicated Americans and Canadians will arrive to travel the country with Sionfonds for Haiti staff, and provide medical and dental care to the schools and communities Sionfonds serves. Since our last medical trip six month ago all of us have been working...
Annie Blackstone’s Story, How Sionfonds Began
Sionfonds For Haiti Director Annie Blackstone shares her purpose for Haiti and speaks about Haiti’s orphan children in a beautiful video.
The Story of Sionfonds’ Three-Day Teacher Training Workshop, August, 2011
A story that turned out better than I ever could have imagined involving 35 teachers from three rural schools serving 750 students, 5 cooks, 4 translators, 2 drivers, 4 American volunteers, and 18 donors! By Serena Clayton We embarked on this endeavor with the...
We Continue on; A True Partnership
I will be heading back to Haiti in a couple weeks. It has been 3 months since my last visit, the time in between has passed quickly; first recovery, getting my bearings back home where so much of what we think is a necessity is really a convenience, then back to work...
Mesi Anpil (Thank you very much)
As the famous, at least to those of us who participate in Sionfonds for Haiti medical trips, Scott Bullock said last November “We work hard when we come to Haiti, but I always get more than I give.” I agree a thousand times over--as I leave Haiti today I feel...
Back in Haiti April 2011 medical Expedition is well under way.
This Medical trip consists of 3 doctors from the SF bay area, a PA from Canada, a dentist and dental assistant from St George Utah, 3 nurses from Canada and SF, 2 interpretters form the UK and SF bay area, a socail worker from Sf Bay area, and two children 11 and 15....
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Pulling Teeth
This was not my first medical trip in Haiti, but it was the first time I went with Sionfonds. One of the things that impressed me the most was that Sionfonds is providing not only medical, but also dental care. While there are many groups sending medical teams to...
Pieces
Robenson, who is the director of Kenscoff school said to me yesterday, that the reason he believes in education so deeply is because, as he tapped his head "this is all I have, and with it I can change my life and help others. If I can educate 200 children and...
Haiti gets into your heart
Haiti gets into the hearts of people who come here in a way that is, I believe, unique. I know it did for me, and many of my friends and even after many years of leading groups here I am still inspired and in love with this place. It is rewarding for me to see a...
Kenscoff school clinic day
Kenscoff is above Port au Prince past Petionville and yesterday was cold and rainy. This has been a trip full of unexpected events and it being cold and rainy fit right in. The school was toward the top of a mountain which was shrouded in rain fog when I arrived. On...
November 2010 Medical Trip Photo Gallery
Day Three Clinic in Auban
The hurricane and the rain had subsided this morning as we left Marigot the sun sun was shining. There are many people we will remember in Marigot. One beautiful young woman had 5 teeth pulled and kept asking the dentist about whether it was okay that she had not...
Successful Clinic despite Hurricane Weather
We held a very successful clinic in a small village on the southern coast of haiti yesterday. It was a "hurricaine day" so school was called off and we were not able to bring in entire classes of kids for dental sealants and fluoride. However lots of parents brought...
We Have Arrived
Port au Prince looks better than on our last trip in April. There is less rubble, fewer tents in the streets, more cleared lots. But the tents are looking worn and no match for even a small hurricaine. We have spent the afternoon at the foyer de sion orphanage and...
Medical trip preparation
Annie Blackstone: We have 19 volunteers preparing to leave for Haiti on Nov 2nd. We will be providing basic medical care and dental care in four rural communities. These are very rural and impoverished communities where many residents receive their only medical...
Making a Difference for Haitian Families
Before the earthquake on 1/12/10, there were an estimated 380,000 orphans in Haiti. Sionfonds for Haiti grew in response to the needs of Haitian families.
Finding the Words, Making a Website
It would be hard to imagine a more grassroots or organically grown organization than Sionfonds for Haiti. So much so, in fact that we have grown, mostly, without being aware of it. what I mean to say is we knew we were growing and working and doing important things...
“Be the change you want to see in the world.” – Mohandas Ghandi
If you are visiting this website looking for an organization working for Haiti in which you will know that your donations are making a difference, you have found it.
Education is the Key to Building Haiti Back Better
Typically in Haiti only 67% of school age children ever enroll in school. Out of those, only 70% go to school through the third grade and 60% of all students who begin school drop out by the sixth grade. There are a variety of reasons for these tragic statistics, and Sionfonds for Haiti is working to change them.