St. Pierre parish,
Baradères, Haiti
Sister parish of St. John the Baptist, Silver
Spring, Md.
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Our first two days of clinics were in Baraderes and we saw about 200 patients there. On each of the next two days we traveled to two of the remote “chapels” that are part of Father Gattereau’s territory, Tete d’Eau and Grand Boucan, where we saw about 100 and 130 patients, respectively. One of the highlights of the trip for me was on the day we went to Tete d’Eau. We left the rectory early that morning and were taken in the truck as far as we could go, driving across streams and small rivers and, finally, coming to the end of the road (literally.) We packed up our bags and backpacks and began our hike to Tete d’Eau—it was both beautiful to walk through the lush, green mountains and back and forth across the river in the morning sun, as well as sad to see people bathing in the same water that they use for drinking and cooking and living in tiny lean-tos and shacks.
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