Stories of impact
Story of Lorens
In January, our team included four surgeons who saw a baby boy, named Lorens, with a tumor between his eyes. They could not operate in the Haitian hospital and is mother, Marie, said that the tumor was growing. • Dr. Will Caldwell, a Charlotte ENT surgeon who was on...
Noel
By: Angela Quinn June 2011 My return trip to Haiti in May marked the second visit for me in five months. My first experience there last December was so life changing that I jumped at the opportunity to return with the next team. It is hard to describe the connection I...
The Miraculous Seven
No one expects the moment that will change their life forever. The thirteen of us certainly didn’t see this coming. Dinnertime was wrapping up when we were informed that there was a sick boy in the orphanage. Dr. Roy Blank asked four of us to accompany him down to the...
Titite’s Story
He slipped up beside me and slid his hand into mine before I even saw him coming. That was just the beginning of so much that I didn’t see coming where Titite is concerned. It was Sunday morning and I was walking to the church at the far end of the orphanage at...
When Hunger Knows Your Name
Hunger… I am not certain that I really know what it is. Sure, I have fasted a few times and many times have been too busy to stop to eat only to realize at some point that I was beginning to feel hungry…but to be honest, I have never really been in a position where I...
Being Chosen
By: Angela Quinn December 2010 LES CAYES, HAITI – The alarms sounded at 7am in my bunkroom. Most of us had already been awakened by the howling wind outside. No coffee from Starbucks to jumpstart my brain. Just a wet wipe rubbed across my face and a quick change of...
Diagnosis: Starvation
Afternoon meal…rice and beans…mostly rice with a few beans…in fact, so few that you could easily count them. The stuff doesn’t look very appetizing when served out of a five gallon paint bucket into a frisbee for a plate and...