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Beginning Of The End

This is my last day to set up the GATR antenna on this trip, and this post to the blog is going through the GATR. I was ashore early, and had the system set up and running just before 8 AM. It's been used all day for communications between the clinic sites and the Comfort. It's probably the fastest Internet connection in all of Haiti. It's been really a nice way to end the trip, with a couple successful and beneficial days in Port-au-Prince.

So far I've only been here in the Boat Landing Zone. Friday, when I debark the Comfort, I will have a chance to see some of Haiti. I'll be staying with MAF staff over the weekend before flying home on Monday. I've only had glimpses of what Haiti is like. Our personnel travel in convoys protected by police guards. Some of the Project Hope staff have shared with me their experiences. It sounds like Haiti is a very bleak place, and the little that we are doing here is only a tiny drop in the bucket.

In a few minutes I'll take down the GATR antenna, pack it up, and take it back to the Comfort. Thursday I'll clean all the equipment, and repack it for the trip home. Then on Friday I'll make my last trip in a lifeboat, down the side of the ship.

Posted by David at September 5, 2007 12:34 PM