Dear
friends and family,
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| Kids in rural high mountain village carry loads to market several miles away every the morning. |
On
November 25th,
Abigail Proctor and I will making her first and my second trip to
Haiti to volunteer with a International Healthcare Ministries (IHM) medical relief team, seeing to the physical and spiritual needs of the largely forgotten
rural peoples in the mountainous regions of Eastern Haiti. I had a
special opportunity last November to serve our Haitian neighbors and
left, not with the feeling of accomplishment I'd expected, but with
an indelible desire to do more. Life is not easy in rural Haiti. The desperation and poverty is difficult to fully comprehend for people
like you and me.
Many rural Haitians lack even the most basic amenities like running water and sewage. Children and women may have to walk miles over steep, unpaved terrain, carrying buckets of tepid water just to cook or wash themselves. Since the 2010 earthquake, infrastructure
connecting the remote outlying areas to the urban centers has been
largely cut off. Roads for transporting goods are dodgy at best and
many have been slowly (or dramatically in some cases) washed away due
to the erosion endemic to the Eastern mountains. At our clinics,
hundreds of men, women and children would line up for the rare
opportunity to see a doctor and have their medical and nutritional
needs met. We'd drive in off-road
vehicles, sometimes for hours, up heavily pock-marked roads, and
perilously steep grades. A large line would invariably
be awaiting our arrival and we would set up shop in a mission school,
church, or a deserted government building.
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| Dr. Sorg and our team of translators navigate the steep cliff- lined rural "roads" of rural Haiti. |
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| Men, women and children, most of whom have traveled for miles on foot, wait to be seen by our medical team. |
This
is your opportunity to partner with IHM and me, to help rebuild and
strengthen this disease-oppressed, and poverty-stricken nation of 7.9
million people. I urge you to take this opportunity to make your
resources really count toward something that God will surely bless and
multiply (John 6:9-14). The donations will cover the cost of lodging,
local transportation, medical supplies and other materials needed
during the course of the mission. It looked for a while as if the trip maybe cancelled due to problems with accommodations due to the frequent storms and other set-backs in the country. That didn't change my deadline for
these funds though, so please act quickly so that the medicines can be
purchased as soon as possible. My deadline is September 30th.
Yeah... not much time, but I know we can still do this.
There
are several ways to donate: You can donate directly by clicking the "donate" button on the upper right side of my mission blog.
You can also donate through the Orangeburg Avenue Baptist Church at
313 E. Orangeburg Ave, Modesto, CA 95350 specifying that this is for
“Haiti Mission – Zach Greenlee” in the memo line. If you'd like
to donate in any other way, please write me at z.d.greenlee@gmail.com
or call me anytime: (209) 918-4044. Thank you to those of you who gave so generously last year and also thank you for your continued prayers.
Sincerely,
Zach
Greenlee
I post a lot about the Haiti mission in this blog, here are some posts I recommend if you'd like to learn more:
- Mission to Haiti Quickly Approacheth
- IHM Medical Team Visits Rural Haiti
- Stand Back and Look: A Personal Inventory
- The Future of My Medical Mission
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