Pictures from the Newport, RI team here in early Oct '06

Stephanie with some island girls on our front deck

The team went swimming on Northside, so did about 25 island kids!

Sarah and I during some visitation time up on Northside, lovin' on the kids some. Can't help it, they're all so so cuddleable!!

Stephanie checking out Linden's catch that day, he's out fishing most days of the week, weather permitting.

 

More Guanaja...

Here is the Savannah Bight Medical Clinic, serving 3 times as many people as we do here in Helene, but with probably 1/5 the supplies/meds. This problem will be helped tremendously by the team coming down.

The main street in Savannah Bight, which is where we will concentrate our efforts on our outreach in later November. They are getting "too many cars" on the island according to one person, now up to 15!

Michelle, Larry and Joe on Graham's Key, where we had dinner. He is a man from the Cayman Islands that bought this key and built a resort, quite a life if you ask me! He does a wonderful job with a classy spot.

A truly gorgeous sunset shot from the beach on Graham's Key

 

Introducing Guanaja, from our scouting trip there mid Oct, '06

Here's the airport, folks. 2 flights in and out a day, if there are enough fliers. There aren't any ferry boats or anything, so this is the way on/off the island if you don't have your own boat.
The is Low Key, a small but very crowded key off the main island. It is the main center of commerce, where the major's office, bank, gas stations, and one of the 2 medical clinics is located. Called Low Key because it is low in the water (at least that is what I've been told), or also known as Binaca Key (Guanaja is also known as Binaca)
The narrow streets can get very congested, but only from people and bicycles, no cars here. Houses and businesses are completely intermingled. The school sits pretty center on the key.
This is near the school and medical clinic. No hospital on Guanaja yet. You can hardly see a patch of ground here.

 

Some work projects around Helene...

Laverne and Dean getting a much needed new roof under Habitat for Helene funding, with the help from the Newport STM team

Procedure Room work! Its getting there folks, slowly but surely. It has to be ready to be used in January, when a construction team is coming to tear apart the existing clinic, for remodelling by a 2nd January team

Help from the Newport RI team here, too

Painting, painting, painting. It takes at least 3 coats of this Honduran paint to cover. Lots of practice on my house back in the states paid off!

OH come on! you're saying I missed just a SPOT??