Things that have changed since we last wrote:
3,750 people now have access to clean drinking water.
We are significantly more prepared for the cholera outbreak, thanks to so many of your generous donations over the last few weeks.
And another local hospital has run out of oxygen
So, we are helping to supply oxygen to kids who would normally be hospitalized.
Things that haven’t changed:
The number of women coming to our centers.
We are still seeing just as many women during prenatal consultations.
Just as many women filling seats during prenatal classes each Thursday.
And just as many new mothers in the postpartum clinic with loosely swaddled infants.
We are actually seeing more clients than before the unrest began and they are coming from farther and farther away.
Despite dangerous road blocks and high transportation costs, women still want to give birth in a safe place.
Wouldn't you?
Last Friday we had our first client come from Port-au-Prince— an area more than 80 miles from our Cap-Haitien Center and the area most impacted by gang control over the last two years. She'd come seeking safety.
Prenatal care was difficult to find in her home community.
Her care had been so limited—in fact—that she had never learned she was carrying twins.
When she arrived at our center she was showing signs of one of the scariest pregnancy complications, preeclampsia. But she was nervous about going into labor, since she didn't know where she would sleep with her newborns.
We are continuously in awe of the strength Haitian women show as they face incomprehensible hardships and so many unknowns.
We are happy to be able to give them some measure of certainty by keeping our doors open despite everything that is happening right now in Haiti.
Tomorrow is uncertain.
Except for the fact that there will certainly be a couple of new parents who need support.
We have Midwives and light.
We have a comfortable place to rest after birth.
We have you to thank.
❤️ from Haiti