HSC update

Hi Holt:

Hopital Sainte Croix is in the midst of administrative changes. Bishop
Duracin ( Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Haiti) has appointed a new
hospital administrator and chief financial officer, and Jack LaFontant is to
be the chief medical officer. It is not clear if Jack LaFontant will remain
at HSC or not.

Cathy Speraw Dorvil is now Interim Director of the Children's Nutrition
Program of Haiti, and is doing a super job for us. She is based in
Chattanooga, TN, and makes quarterly trips to and from Haiti to monitor the
Hearth Program in the villages, the in-hospital malnutrition program, and to
provide continuing education for the monitrices.

The Children's Nutrition Program will sponsor several trips from Chattanooga
to Leogane in early 2006. Two mobile medical teams plan to go the first two
weeks of January 2006, and Cathy will be there to make arrangements for the
team's visit, and to go out with them on the clinics. My husband, Chuck,
hopes to lead a mobile clinic team from the 18-25 of February.

We are keeping an eye on the political unrest, and will just have to see
what happens in the next few months. At this time, the Presbyterian Church
USA has evacuated all of their missionary personnel out of Haiti, and will
not sanction mission teams to travel in Haiti under the sponsorship of a
PCUSA church. Katie Griggs, the HSC guesthouse coordinator is back in
Kansas doing a semester of college work. A decision has not been made yet
about when she will be allowed to return to Haiti.

Peace!

Martha Sternbergh
mwsternbergh@comcast.net