June 10, 2012
It’s time to depart once again. This time there is no one scheduled to greet the new person coming into Port-au-Prince; I am leaving and there’s no transition clinician to pick up the new person coming in. Joel realized this and asked if he could go and help with the new clinician pick up, “cause someone has to be there, right?” he says. I said, “Ok, that sounds like a good idea Joel, thank you”. The last I heard he is still making the Port-au-Prince run at 4am, headed over the mountain or down the coast to Port-au-Prince, greeting the new volunteer for Klinik Hanger.
I was there before the Klinik was built when Van (the founder of the Hanger Ivan R. Sabel Foundation and Haitian Amputee Coalition) introduced the mission and goal of the group. A sustainable clinic is the end result – send a focused group of professionals to a location in need, build a clinic, teach the people, and leave a sustainable clinic so the people of the land can continue to give care to their own in future times. Well Van, you did it. I couldn’t have dreamed it any better.
