This was a solemn day of remembrance sadly of a multitude of people who suffered traumas and didn’t survive the earthquake of 2010. Many of the people I’ve interacted with here in Haiti have shared their awful stories of loss in the quake. Somehow in an amazing, clearly God ordained way they have found the strength to carry on. Some of the stories they have shared seem impossible to fathom enduring. The strength, courage and resilience is truly admirable. I was so happy to be able to spend the day with two of the Haitian doctors who’d traveled great lengths catching the bus to come volunteer with this clinics, one came four hours from Okai and another came two hours from St. Marc for the mobile clinics. A pharmacy technician from the trauma hospital Bernard Mevs volunteered to spend his day off helping out at the clinic. We also had a Haitian translator and a medical student accompany us with an American EMT. Such drive speaks volumes about the passion they have to serve which ignites a spark in my desire to make the growth of these mobile clinics thrive in my absence. The driver picked us up from the hospital. As we headed up the road we saw the largest police presence that I think I’ve ever witnessed with cars, motorcycles and armed UN trucks with officers holding big guns in such high volumes. I was not sure what happened or where they were going. Part of what I sought to do on this trip is find a pharmacy we can work with regularly to get bulk medications at the best prices. Enroute to the mobile clinic, we headed downtown to a pharmacy in the Iron Market called Valliere. The area is very busy and crowded with many vendors selling numerous products so it’s a lot to navigate through. But the prices for medications were good and they have a wide selection so I will plan to do future business with them. We stopped for juice on the way to the school in Carrefour. Once we arrived, there were at first not too many patients. Maybe word spread about us being there because the volume began to grow. We had a total of four Haitian doctors who I’ve worked with before. After they each got set up in the various rooms with equipment they began seeing patients. We set the pharmacy up in the room upstairs as before and patients began to flow through. By the end of the day, it was dark in the school without electricity which I would have needed to pay for if we wanted it. We made arrangements for patient’s to come back on Monday who’d been given prescriptions from the various doctors so that medications could be dispensed. After the clinic, Jones wife Natasha made our group dinner at there house which was nice. It was good to have a medical student accompany us via the clinic. Over the days I have spent here I’ve met number medical students, majority from the trauma hospital. They have wanted to help with clinics and most have been 6th year students which is advanced. They seem to be enthusiastic about helping so I’m happy to have them involved, although they have to be supervised if prescribing medications. The potential of having a new cadre of providers who can engage in and run mobile clinics in the future is great. Even better is as they progress in their programs to internships…there are a variety of places in Haiti they may end up working which creates possibilities for mobile clinics to be held in different places throughout the country. After dinner, we headed back to Port au Prince in the truck. We made plans to spend Sunday afternoon at the beach. They dropped me off at the hospital and everyone went their own way. The night driver Gideon from the hospital took be back to the guesthouse. I spent some time talking with one of the guys Pierre who helping run the guesthouse through Heartline Ministries and he enlightened me with information and Haiti and practices.