Oh, how exciting to be back with the St Norbert Medical Mission team at the One World Surgery Clinic in Honduras! Our team’s elation is off the charts! It’s been twelve months since we visited the clinic at One World Surgery in the hills outside of Telanga, Honduras. The crisp, fresh air and beauty of this rugged terrain are so

In November 2024, I trekked to Chennai, India, to meet with our partner, Future Farms and discuss near term planning for our homegrown hydroponics project. The hydroponics project intent is to train poor, low producer farmers on modern agriculture techniques like hydroponics. What great progress has been made to complete the software platform supporting the game-changer FutR-AG platform. I am

I am grateful to have the opportunity to travel yet again to endearing Honduras to serve on another medical mission team. This time, I am joining the St Norbert Medical Mission brigade, a team of volunteer primary care doctors and nurses, many of whom I worked with in Haiti. Seems that all of us were bitten by the medical mission

It’s hard to believe that the violent and unstable situation in Haiti has grown so very dire. As a result, in mid 2023, we lost our staff on the ground at St Jude Clinic (Port au Prince), and Double Harvest Clinic (Crois du Bouquet) was forced to close. So, all our hopes of rekindling our medical mission teams to the

Finally, I was able to trek to India once again to revitalize our hydroponics project initiatives! With the pandemic stifling all of our plans and prohibiting our ability to be on the ground since early 2020, I was unsure of what the situation would be upon arrival and how best we could resurrect the project. Would the hydroponics companies we

As Haiti continues to face the overlapping and compounding crises of human rights issues, extreme poverty, underdevelopment, and corruption, Fr. Ancelet Mukendi Mpunga of St. Jude Clinic sent a message of gratitude and thanks to the Clinic’s supporters, among them The C14 Foundation. As detailed in Fr. Ancelet’s financial report from the Archdiocese of Port-au-Prince, although “September, October, and November

After licking our wounds from the devastating news halting our medical mission trip, our team will press on. We will not abandon Haiti. I am sharing a note from our mission team’s leader, Dr. Tony Coletta, below: “I’m at the gate in Port au Prince with Martina, Cal and Tim and we are on our way back to the United