We spent Thursday at Bellevue where to my surprise and delight there were 18 kids needing speech and language assessments!!! I was very happy to have Michaelle with me and she did a fantastic job at helping me get through all of the munchkins!
While we were doing our speech stuff, part of the team went on a home visit to bring a wheelchair we had promised a lovely young girl that we assessed in May! Very happy that got done! It WILL make a difference in her life!
Thursday night, Marika - the Director of Pazapa and Dr. Fred - orthopod from Virginia dropped by the Cyvadier for dinner! It was great having a social evening with these wonderful people!
Friday we drove up a different set of mountains to Lafont. Here we saw a number of kids who were seen last May and it was so wonderful to see that the speech/language, OT and PT exercises that we'd given the parents had been done - and that we'd seen some progress.
Heartbreak moments of the day:
1: 5 year old boy with a physical disability to his mom and Melissa: "will anyone love me like this when I'm an adult?"
2: Awesome little guy with Rickets - after a number of questions... team comes to the realization that parents abandonded him because of his disability...
Such a difficult part of this job... we have seen so much improvement with regards to the acceptance of disabilities in this country, but the fact still remains that having a disability in this country is something that continues to require our help with training and education to help people realize that these wonderful kids and people still have worth and value!
Very humbling day...and so very appreciative for the opportunity to be able to help even just a little!
So today...promotion of Haitian artists and economy... Shopping in Jacmel. Then an attempt will be made at working on my tan! :-) Off to Kabik beach this afternoon!
Bon bagay!
K.
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