The amazing people that have helped us this time. Though not present we must acknowledge Fiona Millard Mansed responsible for the oversight of the curriculum & who got married & had a baby …busy! Then the Team members 2014 From this to the one below is TRANSFORMATION ! These The physios :-, lt to rt –Jo-Anne Read, Claire Hargest, Alice Barach who taght over the 3 months. We also had fantastic assistance from Pauline Penny a retired NZer who was until June a UN volunteer working in Haiti introduced to us by Helen Clark. Dr Steve & Lorraine Benford, from England, Lorraine is a physio assistant and Steve, a doctor to the soul and the body being a vicar and an anaesthetist. Prof Jean Claude Theis with Drs Genna & Myrlande and James the school administrator, 3 of the committee of ITTP, Absent: the rest of the committee…Pastor Megy, Oge Yacinth, Dr Julmiste, Dr Ogedad. are the interior as well as exterior views… I haven’t translated James’ notes to me as this came on a pdf. Hearts and Hands for Haiti.NZ P.O.Box 420, Oamaru. 9444 New Zealand Hearts & Hands for Haiti & the ITTP… Institut des Techniciens en Therapie Physique Thanks you … School logo Dr Chrisny (Ogedad’s wife) Prof JeanClaude Theis, and Dr Ogedad Pierre … and many others throughout North Otago, and the rest of NZ for their amazing support of the project to establish the first two year training programme in the whole of Haiti for physiotherapy technicians. This project has been ongoing since 2010 and our recent visit which covered the period from the end of January to the end of April of this year has been a resounding success. We will complete our part of the work at the end of 2015 therefore we are still engaged in keeping everyone informed and fund raising to send the last team of physiotherapists to Haiti. We also thank the combined N.O. Rotary groups for their help in the sponsorship of Dr Ogedad Pierre in 2012 to a club foot seminar in Auckland and then to spend 3 months in Dunedin under the supervision of Professor Jean-Claude Theis. He has completed his residency & is working in a mission hospital in the Central Plateau of Haiti. Jean-Claude was in Haiti with us & attended a seminar in Port-Au-Prince where Ogedad presented a paper on the low cost SIGN locked nailing system used in developing countries in the treatment of fractures. Ogedad has been invited to present the same paper at a conference in the USA in September in Oregon & is considered to be one of the up and coming future leading orthopaedic surgeons in Haiti. We are very proud to have been a part of that through Jean-Claude and thank Rotary for investing in such a fine young man. We would also like to thank 3 extremely generous donors, one known, the other unknown, and to Martin Dippie of Mega Mitre 10 who have invested in other aspects of our programme. Our responsibilities now are to return in March of 2015 and give a further 3 months of intensive actual physiotherapy input into the curriculum. The committee of the Institut des Techniciens en Thérapie Physique (ITTP) are on track to employ a trained physiotherapist from the Dominican Republic who is Haitian, and we have one of the most experienced rehab Doctors in Haiti also on board now. We are very fortunate that this is a programme for Haitians by Haitians with the needs of the Haitian people being addressed. Our role has been a temporary one of providing the resource of initial physiotherapy expertise to succeed. Training others leads to personal, local & national independence. Donations to:- Hearts and Hands for Haiti,NZ 06 0941 0198696 00 Some of the students with Fernande, the secretary, and Pasteur, the bus driver, Claire in the centre, Jo Read and Lorraine Benford and me in the back row….grey head! Now we are planning for the final stages. We have an exciting few months ahead with various fund raising activities which include a major event in the Oamaru Opera House :August 25 2014: 6pm Helen Clark coming to speak at a dinner. 8pm Young NZ Future Opera Stars Concert hosted by acclaimed singer & Baptist leader, Rodney Macaan in conjunction with the Kiri te Kanawa Foundation. October 20-27 Classic Car Rally: from all over NZ being run by Alan Dick and Alan McLay. November 19 Royal Overseas League Recital by world-famous UK Piano Trio, Burnside Homestead. A further physiotherapy team will return at the end of March early April 2015 for three months to complete our engagement in assisting the school to be able to be selfsupporting and self- sustaining. Hope this update makes you as happy as I am with the wonderful blessings God has given us. Robyn =