An early morning and a bumpy ride

This morning Carwyn and I managed to speak to our friends at Coney Hill Baptist Church. It was a very early morning for us, but it was really great to speak to them and tell them up to date news! We were able to tell how the medical help we are now able to offere was already making a huge difference. It was very sad to have to tell people about an orphanage that was only 10 minutes from the main airport where the aid was coming in, but after all this time had seen no help and no food. They have now been helped, but there are hundreds of others like them who, even now, have not seen any aid.

Mrs C is posting this for me as I will not be near a computer for a while. We are on our way to Port au Prince (PAP) to deliver some more aid. I am in the back of a large, open lorry going over the bumpy roads. We have been in the back of it for 5 hours, and are very hot, dusty and
dirty! Rather than a long round trip in a day, this time we are possibly going to stay overnight. I think we are going to camp. This normally would be fun in the UK, but I am not sure what to expect; have to admit to being a bit worried.

We are aiming to deliver the food we bought, but also could be leaving the medics behind in PAP. It is very hard to plan in Haiti as everything changes by the second, and getting things done is much harder than at home. We are trying to publicise the fact that we have opened the operating theatre to the authorities, so that we can take the people that need operations, but for the moment, we are taking some of the medics to the people.

Hopefully we can show the people of Haiti that people still care, and when they receive all of the lovely things that people have so generously given (5 containers worth from all of the places across the country that helped!!!), they will know that we are still thinking of them. This is
especially important for them to know when the TV cameras have started to go home and it's problems start to disappear from our news. Haiti is going to take a long time to recover; thanks for to everyone who is enabling us to help them do this.