Eighty percent of the people are farmers, struggling to extract a bare existence from the steep eroded hillside and mountain slopes.
Almost half of the people in
Three out of four children are malnourished Seven out of ten children will die before reaching the age of five.
Families are trapped in a cycle of poverty, sickness, illiteracy and political strife.
Responding almost single handedly to a flyer,
Bonnie Rawson began working immediately to gather medical supplies and try to recruit those who could provide the sorely needed services which was almost non-existent in the places she was planning to go.
Using her own money she departed for Port Au Prince on
The necessity of a clinic was determined…
…and finished in 2008.
A passion to make a difference.....
to make health care available for the impoverished and underprivileged
.......to erase malnutrition.
.....and ease the discomforts of poverty is the motivation.