The first two weeks!

Hello everyone!
What an amazing time here in Haiti this has been! Gloria, my friend who came with me and I have been here for two weeks now and sadly have only one week left. Every day has been an adventure, with meeting new people and learning new things.
A little bit about why we are here! The wonderful organization Hope Through Healing Hands Foundation graciously gave Belmont University a grant to offer a fellowship in global health with a focus on healthy timing and spacing of pregnancies to one of the students in the College of Health Sciences. With my calling to teach natural family planning and my passion for global health, I applied with hopes to expand my knowledge and create the beginnings my life work, setting up a path for my future. My proposal for educating providers in Northern Haiti a method of natural family planning called the Standard Days Method was chosen and with guidance and support from my excellent instructors in the Doctor of Nursing Practice program at Belmont, we were able prepare and make my dream a reality.
Gloria and I arrived in Robillard, Haiti, which is a rural town 30 minutes from Cap-Haitian on Friday May 22nd with a very warm welcome. Father André is graciously hosting Gloria and I in his home and has made sure that we are very well taken care of. We were present for many of the activities of the town over the weekend and began our first education class the following Monday. The people of Haiti are so excited for this education and has been more than receptive of the information. Fr. André is so excited about the method education that he called many of his fellow priests and filled the days that we are not teaching at the clinics for the research project so that we may introduce the method in each of their parishes. We have seen much of the country side, city side, and visited more than 10 different cities in Nord (North) Haiti.  So far we have trained 25 physicians, nurses, and health agents in the Standard Days Method. This afternoon we will go to our fourth clinic and teach 5 more providers! God is so good and has blessed this mission so well. I hope to post pictures soon! Thank you and God Bless!
Jennifer