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

It’s with heavy heart that I write this trip journal entry. Yesterday’s news that the US State Department issued a level 4 warning for travelers to Haiti came as a shock because we did not anticipate it here, on the ground, and neither did our colleagues at Double Harvest Clinic. Yes, there are eminent dangers in Haiti- always. And to

Double Harvest Clinic was teaming with patients today. Upon our arrival, Tony went to work while Cal, Tim and myself unpacked and set things up. Today was vaccination day for children so there were many new moms showing off their adorable babies and lots of happy little faces. Haitians love to dress up their kids for doctor visits. Dum Dum

The Blue Sky Medical set up team of four is aglow and very happy to arrive in this endearing country! For Tony, Cal and myself, this is a well-known feeling, but for Tim, it’s all new and I am enjoying watching his reaction as he discovers his surroundings. We were greeted by Peter Pierrot not at customs but just before