Haiti 2012
HWB Begins 5-Part Training Series in Haiti
April 2012
Holly Manoogian, CCH, executive director of HWB, is currently coordinating a June trip to Port-au-Prince, the third in a series of five training/clinic sessions planned for 2012.
The first trip, completed in February 2012 with homeopaths Doug Brown, FNP, CCH, and AlyssaWostrel, started the training series with 2 days of class for 19 students who have committedto the full schedule of seminars. Their training covered core concepts of homeopathic theory and common remedy differentials of flu, acute trauma and diarrhea. In the subsequent 3 days of clinic, Holly, Doug and Alyssa saw more than 150 clients at community locations.
In the second session, Karen Allen, CCH joined Holly in Port-au-Prince, and the two have just finished the second training seminar with 15 of the students. The two days of class emphasized eliciting detailed symptoms and matching client symptoms to remedy patterns,methods of administration of remedies, epidemic disease differentials for cholera, and concepts of genus epidemicus. Read more.
Holly Manoogian, CCH, executive director of HWB, is currently coordinating a June trip to Port-au-Prince, the third in a series of five training/clinic sessions planned for 2012.
The first trip, completed in February 2012 with homeopaths Doug Brown, FNP, CCH, and AlyssaWostrel, started the training series with 2 days of class for 19 students who have committedto the full schedule of seminars. Their training covered core concepts of homeopathic theory and common remedy differentials of flu, acute trauma and diarrhea. In the subsequent 3 days of clinic, Holly, Doug and Alyssa saw more than 150 clients at community locations.
In the second session, Karen Allen, CCH joined Holly in Port-au-Prince, and the two have just finished the second training seminar with 15 of the students. The two days of class emphasized eliciting detailed symptoms and matching client symptoms to remedy patterns,methods of administration of remedies, epidemic disease differentials for cholera, and concepts of genus epidemicus. Read more.
HWB Team lands in Haiti
June 2012
Coming from different parts of the country, our group of four gathers at Gate 24 in the Miami Airport for the flight to Port-au-Prince. The ninety-minute flight ends with announcements in English and French, and we make our way through immigration. We are met by a representative from the guest house who is locating all of the scheduled guests, and we look through the piled bags and a sea of people to collect our luggage and supplies that we have brought for the clinic. Once out of the airport, we run the friendly gauntlet of red-shirted men who all want to take our bags and drive us to our destination. Read more...
Coming from different parts of the country, our group of four gathers at Gate 24 in the Miami Airport for the flight to Port-au-Prince. The ninety-minute flight ends with announcements in English and French, and we make our way through immigration. We are met by a representative from the guest house who is locating all of the scheduled guests, and we look through the piled bags and a sea of people to collect our luggage and supplies that we have brought for the clinic. Once out of the airport, we run the friendly gauntlet of red-shirted men who all want to take our bags and drive us to our destination. Read more...
Fundamentals of Homeopathy Program Begins
Monday, June 25, 2012
Last night, following our fearless leaders, I went to bed at 9 p.m. That is really unusual for me, but since I’d been warned about the roosters, I slept. Sure enough, at 5 a.m., the roosters began their wake-up calls. We feigned sleep until 6, then got ourselves ready for the first day of class.
Breakfast in the kitchen was wonderful: yummy, spicy peanut butter, bread and eggs. We were then picked up by our driver and headed to class. We were picked up inside the guest house compound, because the local driver and security guards really want us to be safe. The streets enroute to class have seen better days. The ridges are so big that the van had to drive very slowly; the rocking was more like a rocking boat on a stormy sea. Read more...
Last night, following our fearless leaders, I went to bed at 9 p.m. That is really unusual for me, but since I’d been warned about the roosters, I slept. Sure enough, at 5 a.m., the roosters began their wake-up calls. We feigned sleep until 6, then got ourselves ready for the first day of class.
Breakfast in the kitchen was wonderful: yummy, spicy peanut butter, bread and eggs. We were then picked up by our driver and headed to class. We were picked up inside the guest house compound, because the local driver and security guards really want us to be safe. The streets enroute to class have seen better days. The ridges are so big that the van had to drive very slowly; the rocking was more like a rocking boat on a stormy sea. Read more...
Students are Introduced to the Concepts of Potency and Dosing
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
I got up at 6:30 this morning and everyone else was ready to go—a very enthusiastic group! The breakfast bell rang and we went to the kitchen for yummy pancakes with peanut butter and bananas. They made sure we got protein, and we decided to walk to class today—a pleasant 15-minute walk.
Class started with dosing instructions and potencies. Karen’s excellent delivery made the concepts very clear, and she moved on to acute therapeutics for leucorrhea, toothache and coughs. This was based on the cases they saw in April at the clinics. Read more...
I got up at 6:30 this morning and everyone else was ready to go—a very enthusiastic group! The breakfast bell rang and we went to the kitchen for yummy pancakes with peanut butter and bananas. They made sure we got protein, and we decided to walk to class today—a pleasant 15-minute walk.
Class started with dosing instructions and potencies. Karen’s excellent delivery made the concepts very clear, and she moved on to acute therapeutics for leucorrhea, toothache and coughs. This was based on the cases they saw in April at the clinics. Read more...
Haitian Homeopathy Students Eager to Test Their Skills in Clinic
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Another wonderful day in Haiti. The day began with plenty of wonder—what would clinic be like? Tony, the facility manager at the OPL Center wondered if people would actually show up. Ruja and Rami wondered if their homeopathic skills would match the needs of the people of Haiti. Karen and I wondered if the students’ participation in seminar, which had surpassed our expectations, would equal their clinical skills.
Arriving at the center just after 8:30 a.m., we were greeted by early arriving students eager to get to work. Within minutes, the team was busy setting up the clinic. There were three stations for taking cases, the dispensary table and two waiting areas–one for children and the other for adults. Read more...
Another wonderful day in Haiti. The day began with plenty of wonder—what would clinic be like? Tony, the facility manager at the OPL Center wondered if people would actually show up. Ruja and Rami wondered if their homeopathic skills would match the needs of the people of Haiti. Karen and I wondered if the students’ participation in seminar, which had surpassed our expectations, would equal their clinical skills.
Arriving at the center just after 8:30 a.m., we were greeted by early arriving students eager to get to work. Within minutes, the team was busy setting up the clinic. There were three stations for taking cases, the dispensary table and two waiting areas–one for children and the other for adults. Read more...
HWB Hosts Clinic at Les Pinasse, Haiti
Friday, June 29, 2012
Today we met the students in OPL and were glad to see that our driver had a newer van—complete with a floor board. No longer a Flintstones car!
We drove to Les Pinasse on a bumpy road that was not paved, not dirt or gravel as I expected, but rocks! After an hour and a half of bumping around, the van stopped and one of the guys hopped up to the top of the van. As we carefully drove along the rocky road at five miles an hour, he called out from the top of the van to people–come up to the school building for medicines.
When we got there, we saw that the local students were having an exam where we were to hold the clinic. So we hauled a couple of benches under the avocado tree and got organized to take the cases. Read more...
Today we met the students in OPL and were glad to see that our driver had a newer van—complete with a floor board. No longer a Flintstones car!
We drove to Les Pinasse on a bumpy road that was not paved, not dirt or gravel as I expected, but rocks! After an hour and a half of bumping around, the van stopped and one of the guys hopped up to the top of the van. As we carefully drove along the rocky road at five miles an hour, he called out from the top of the van to people–come up to the school building for medicines.
When we got there, we saw that the local students were having an exam where we were to hold the clinic. So we hauled a couple of benches under the avocado tree and got organized to take the cases. Read more...
Last Day Tasks: Remedy Inventory and Relaxation
Saturday, June 30, 2012
Another beautiful day is almost over and our trip is ending too, as Ruja and I head for the airport tomorrow morning.
This morning we inventoried the pharmacy of homeopathic remedies that have been generously donated by homeopathic pharmacies in the United States and even India. We marked all the remedies that were running low so they could be restocked during the next trip.
It was gracious of our organizer, Holly Manoogian, to arrange an afternoon trip to downtown Port au Prince for us. Our trip started with a delicious lunch at the local Hotel Kinam, overlooking the pool and surrounded by different colored flowers. Read more...
Another beautiful day is almost over and our trip is ending too, as Ruja and I head for the airport tomorrow morning.
This morning we inventoried the pharmacy of homeopathic remedies that have been generously donated by homeopathic pharmacies in the United States and even India. We marked all the remedies that were running low so they could be restocked during the next trip.
It was gracious of our organizer, Holly Manoogian, to arrange an afternoon trip to downtown Port au Prince for us. Our trip started with a delicious lunch at the local Hotel Kinam, overlooking the pool and surrounded by different colored flowers. Read more...