Hands up for Haiti

So I have decided that I will keep a blog again while I am in Haiti! This time I will be back for 1 month. (Something that my mother is very sad about) I first off want to send out a big thank you to all those who have supported me and my nursing friends on our trip. All of your help and donations is soooo greatly appreciated.
We will be heading off May 5th for what I hope will be an experience of a lifetime for my friends. I am very excited to be able to show them the place that I love and talk about on a daily basis. I hope that this journey will change their lives as much as it has changed mine. There are 6 of us nursing students going and we will be joined by 4 nurses, 2 pediatricians and someone to help out with whatever is needed. We are going with an organization called Hands up for Haiti based out of New York. I met a couple of participants from their organization on my last trip to Haiti last May and knew that it would be an awesome experience. Our plan for our trip is to travel to Cap Haitien and Bod me Limbe to conduct teaching sessions in schools, hospitals, and communities about topics such as menstruation, puberty, sexual education, preventing illness, nutrition, first aid and other medical topics. We each have spent time working on teaching lessons to teach while we are there. We will also be helping out in clinics in Cap Haitien and Bod me Limbe.

After the one week with the medical mission I will be off to God's Littlest Angels to spend 23 days at a place that I absolutely love. If you remember I was at GLA 2 years ago after the earthquake with my friend Brittnei. I can't wait to see some of the children, staff and volunteers that I met 2 years ago. While at GLA I will be taking care of the children, spending a couple of days in the NICU with Susan who is one of the nurses, and maybe even helping with some construction/painting at the new orphanage they are working on. The last time I was there they only had a couple of buildings so excited to see the changes!

I will try to post 1-2 times a week if more so you can follow along with me in my journey!

Until next time,
Hope