The following trip report is from Liberty Mountain employee, Christian Weaver.
As a volunteer and board member of the Haiti Health Initiative, I spent a week in Haiti on one of their bi-annual health trips a couple weeks ago. Base on my lack of medical know-how, I was assigned the leadership responsibility of the March 2013 Dental Trip.
The Haiti Health Initiative is a non-profit organization that focuses on improving the public health of the rural Haitian people. I chose to join the Haiti Health Initiative because it paired perfectly with my love for both the outdoors and being of service to people that are far beyond the reach of modern civilization.
Traveling to Haiti required that we pack nine days worth of personal camping gear into one small carry-on backpack because all our luggage was full of dental supplies. After landing in Haiti, we drove two hours outside of Port au Prince to the mountainous region of Tomgato. From there we backpacked for a good hour in the darkness on what only could be described as goat trails into the village of Timo. The local women helped us by hiking in our suitcases of supplies by effortlessly carrying them in on their heads without flashlights or shoes while we tripped and stumbled down the dark and rocky trail.
