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Day 11

HAITI | Thu, 26 Oct 2017 | By jessicainhaiti | Views [250]

Day 11~ Hospital, salsa lessons, lightning storm, Direct Relief boxes, family style dinner.   Another typical morning and I wake up to my girls getting up. I get up and head out to coffee. I really don’t want to talk to anyone until ... Read more >

Tags: direct relief boxes, family style dinner, hospital, lightning storm, salsa lessons

Day 10

HAITI | Thu, 26 Oct 2017 | By jessicainhaiti | Views [275]

Day 10~ Hospital, Relax and Azul Feeding Center   It’s time to wake up but I’m really tired. I don’t want to get up. I want to sleep. But I drag my butt out of bed and go get coffee. I’m not really hungry so I ... Read more >

Tags: hospital, relax and azul feeding center

Day 6

HAITI | Mon, 16 Oct 2017 | By jessicainhaiti | Views [334]

Day 6~ Hospital, home visits and making matron kits.   Up and at it. I get up and head out to the kitchen for coffee and breakfast. After I have woken up and had a couple cups of coffee, I head back to the room and get ready. Before long, ... Read more >

Tags: home visits making matron kits, hospital

Day 6

HAITI | Mon, 16 Oct 2017 | By jessicainhaiti | Views [283]

Day 6~ Hospital, home visits and making matron kits.   Up and at it. I get up and head out to the kitchen for coffee and breakfast. After I have woken up and had a couple cups of coffee, I head back to the room and get ready. Before long, ... Read more >

Tags: home visits making matron kits, hospital

Day 12

HAITI | Wed, 23 Nov 2016 | By jessicainhaiti | Views [356]

Day 12-  Hospital Ste Therese. I am awoken by the girls getting ready. A morning ritual has happened. Donna and Tiffany go to bed earlier than me, usually Donna first. I sit up and blog or mess around on my phone til late at night. So in the ... Read more >

Tags: hospital, raining, ste. therese

Here in Zimbabwe: Howard's End

ZIMBABWE | Tue, 28 Jul 2015 | By shantysan | Views [626] | Video

HERE IN ZIMBABWE : Howard’s End By Sandy Powlik   I CAME to Zimbabwe to volunteer at Howard. My first day in Zim, we bought gas in Harare out of the back of someone’s truck as well as several litres of blood from ... Read more >

Tags: arv, blood bank, canadian, corruption, currency, hiv, hospital, inflation, mugabe, zimbabwe

Coeur de Haïti - After the Earthquake

HAITI | Tue, 28 Jul 2015 | By shantysan | Views [429]

STUNTEDMIND May 2010 COEUR DE HAÏTI (CDH) – After The Earthquake By Sandy Powlik    Arrival Ruin and rubble as far as the eye can see, and dust everywhere, and on everything.... Read more >

Tags: cité soleil, clinic, coeur de haiti, dutch, earthquake, haiti, hospital, organization, ruin, undp

Rajasthan - a cow hospital and a rat temple

INDIA | Sun, 19 Apr 2015 | By flyingpiglet | Views [1207]

COWS: Around 2 hours from Jodhpur on the road to Bikaner we stopped at what looked like a cattle sale yards, and turned out to be a cow hospital. We were shown around by a very knowledgeable elderly guide. There were 1500 cows all being lovingly cared ... Read more >

Tags: bikaner, cow, hospital, karni mata, rajasthan, rat, temple

Back to the Basics: Cooking, Healing, and Education

ECUADOR | Wed, 8 Jan 2014 | By kaitlynhennessy | Views [436]

The last couple days have been so eventful! We learned how to cook a traditional Ecuadorian meal, visited a hospital, saw the CEDEI School and participated in a traditional healing. It is so interesting to compare all that we’re seeing with what ... Read more >

Tags: cooking, healing, hospital, school

Children and chest X-rays

THAILAND | Sat, 11 May 2013 | By rutha90 | Views [570]

We had a tour of the school on Thursday. It's huge! The primary school I went to at broughton was about 90 pupils. This one is 3,500. Is the most famous school in Surin Province. They run an English Program (EP) where the children learn mainly in English.... Read more >

Tags: heat, hospital, surin, tefl

Community Health in Kenya

USA | Mon, 14 Jan 2013 | By awildsoul | Views [366]

I want to bear witness to the world unfolding around me and explore and communicate our shared humanity, both who we are and who we have yet to become. My life’s mission is to inspire and engage others to become forces for social and environmental ... Read more >

Tags: adventure, community health, hospital, kenya

Tamen Negara - I'm an engineer, get me out of here.

MALAYSIA | Tue, 1 May 2012 | By macedonboy | Views [1907]

I'd arranged a trip to Tamen Negara National Park through a travel agent in Kuala Lumpur for a not unreasonable RM840 (about 170) for 2 nights and 3 days. Tamen Negara means literally "National Park" in Malay and is a protected rainforest ... Read more >

Tags: hospital, malaysia, misadventures, night trekking, park, tamen negara, wildlife

Police Car Gone Wild

ISRAEL | Tue, 30 Jun 2009 | By true-claims-stories | Views [4642]

I was crossing the street in Jerusalem, Israel when a police car moving 80 km/hr flew through the cross-walk and hit me.  I flew 10 feet into the air and landed on a metal pole in the middle of the traffic island.  The ambulance came right away and ... Read more >

Tags: ambulance, car accidents, emergencies, hospital, israel, jerusalem, police car, travel insurance, world nomads

Getting high in La Paz

BOLIVIA | Fri, 29 May 2009 | By iainjosim | Views [1450] | Comments [7]

The ‘little altitude sickness’ we mentioned in our last entry turned out to be a bit more than that for Jo. She’s fine now, but spent almost three days in bed with altitude sickness and stomach ‘issues’ before calling a doctor at 1am and being admitted ... Read more >

Tags: altitude sickness, hospital, la paz

All templed out at Angkor Wat

CAMBODIA | Mon, 18 May 2009 | By eoghancito | Views [2934] | Comments [1]

As with Laos, we had been learning that time is a bit of a variable concept in Cambodia, so we weren't worried when the minibus failed to pick us up at the agreed time. Perhaps it was a ploy – the owner (what he owned was not mentioned, I assumed ... Read more >

Tags: hospital, temple, tuk tuk

Things seen from the 6th floor hospital window.

AUSTRALIA | Wed, 11 Feb 2009 | By melissamain | Views [918] | Comments [2]

One might be forgiven for feeling like hospitals are depressing places. People are nervous What-is-happening-what will-happen-can-they-do-something? Everything is sterilsed to avoid ... Read more >

Tags: 6th floor, flowers, hospital, nurses, refreshment, sick

 

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