Vacations!!

We are on vacation (15 days off) of course we wont be here the whole 15 work days, we'll spend our free time between Los Cacaos and the city (can you tell we are attached to the place).

Our year working there is coming to an end, but we decided to stay for a couple of more month to finish the health project in the community, that will make it easier for future doctors that come and hopefully doctors will keep coming. Los Cacaos is 2 hours away from the big hospital so having doctors right there is really important!!

Yesterday we loaded our car with boxes of milk and meds left from the medical operative we had and went up in the mountain to give it to the people that were unable to come to the operative. We went as far as the vehicule allowed us and then I started going house through house, people were SO happy to recieve this things :)

Today we are back in the city and I had Yaroa for dinner (then I ask myself why I dont loose the weight!). Yaroa is a dump dish originated in the north of DR :) made of either french fries or yellow plantain, your choice of meats, special sauce, mayonaise, ketchup and melted cheese, it is ohhh so YUMMY!The picture does no justice to this delish Dominican dish :) If you ever visit me I will buy you one myself and you will thank me forever ;)

At Los Cacaos...

We had a huge medical operation (operative or however it is called) at Los Cacaos, a group of doctors came from Puerto Rico and we had tons of donations for the people that went, 110 boxes filled with food, clothes, toys and milk for kids, we worked all day but were so happy!

I didnt took a lot of pictures but here are a few...There were over 1000 people there :)My sweet Bayohan with one of the doctors that came.

I still have a lot of milk and baby cereal left that I am giving to my patients that couldnt make it that day :)

We are really grateful for all of this!!

Help my neighbour...

I hardly felt the earthquake, I though I was getting dizzy, and then I felt the bed shaking and just said "ohhh the earth is moving!", and that was it, I went back to do the things I was doing... an hour later my sister called me and asked if we were fine, of course we are why on earth wouldnt we?, she started telling me how Haiti was destroyed.
It's still hard to belive so much happened so close... And even then I didnt understand just how bad it was, and now the news, the horrible painful images...

Dominicans are getting together to help their neighbours, all differences aside, together to bring relief and that makes me feel better; even at Los Cacaos we formed a little group to gather things to send them to Haiti, even people that sometimes have nothing to eat or to wear, got together and send cans and old blankets, anything they could do to help... HELP OUR NEIGHBOUR!

So I am asking you to also help my neighbour, I cant point you to a particular charity because the ones I know are here, but there are tons out there in the internet, just make sure you pick one that wont be a scam, one from famous organizations like:

American Red Cross

CARE

UNICEF

Yele Haiti

Doctors without borders

Compassion International
Hope for Haiti

So many children are now orphans and it breaks my heart, there is not much I alone cant do to help my neighbour, but you can also help me by helping me spread the word, my neighbour and I will be forever thankful!