April 5, 2010 – 10:09am – Monday (Haiti time)- Titusville, FL – Report submitted by Joe Hurston (Air Mobile Joe)

From the shot above, you can guess what we did on a beautiful Easter morning! We had a perfect flight home and yes….it’s good to be home…for the moment. Because of heavy time restraints and doing a lot of moving around, I was unable to give you a report on what we did on Saturday. It was supposed to be a day of rest for me because….I have been dealing with some flu like symptoms and needed to gather strength for the flite home on Sunday. We decided to go to the beach with the team in the village and….we’d stop at a few orphanages on the way. Turned out to be a productive but busy day…so much for a little rest. 

Our first stop was at a large and well designed orphanage The Baptist Children’s Home. We donated a Voyager to them a year ago. We were checking up. We found a well positioned and used Voyager. The missionary set the unit up beautifully, secured the feet of the unit in an ingenious way and was using the Voyager every day. We agreed to get them longer hoses, more filters and…..donate a second unit for another orphanage close by that had serious water issues. 

From that orphanage, we headed to the Bon Samaritan Orphanage. This oprhanage needed a Voyager. They had recently been connected to a source of water, but it was contaminated. Peter helped me in the set up (remember he had pretty intense training from Anderson). 

The staff of the orphanage were great students and very interested in the Voyager operation. We explained clearly how this unit will dramatically reduce illness in their community. While we were training the staff on the operation, the medical team with us examined the children in the orphanage. It was a very good deployment. 

From there, it was on to Wahoo Beach (finally). Our team enjoyed time on the beach, Barbara and I played yahtzee and the meal was great. Barbara always gets the biggest lobster(s) we’ve ever seen. They really love her at the Wahoo! They make strange and exotic ear-rings! Now, to those of you who read this blog and to see what Barbara is up to, I don’t want to hear of you giving her a hard time by “goofing off and eating huge lobsters at the beach”!! Barb DESERVES a break from time to time for all she does!! Will close out for now.

God Bless!!

Air Mobile Joe