Magdela

Magdela is a patient at Hanger Prosthetics. She lost her leg and got a new one here in Deschapelles and can walk perfectly now. It's almost impossible to tell she has a prosthetic leg. She is beautiful and confident with her leg and very excited to print. She had traced her picture which we turned into a screen and she got to see her own drawing turned into many prints. She was fun to be with and had cool ideas like lining up the black ink so it hit her head on the print and the green for her body. It's great to be able to bring some distraction and fun to someone whose life is very hard being handicapped.
Being disabled is challenging in Haiti because many people won't hire the handicapped and it's  impossible to farm without both legs. This is a big problem for many people especially after the earth quake when so many were left without limbs. These prosthetic legs give opportunity to those who wouldn't have it otherwise. We're really happy to be able to work with these kinds of people.

"We are handicapped. Where can we go?"
A drawing made at the clinic

In the afternoon we went to the Verettes market which is always packed with people selling charcoal, tomatoes, shirts, and questionable meat(?) stew...we're pretty sure we saw an eyeball in one of them. After eating that for lunch... juuuust kidding.

On our way home we saw an ad for purified water with a funny ad. The woman in the ad has a pretty interesting dress on and some wacked out eyebrows. Miller says, "even the water here is sexy". Not sure what he means by that.
Tomorrow there are lots more patients coming to the prosthetics lab from Port-au-Prince which is really exciting because it means even more prints!
Time to try and get some sleep. This is a pretty difficult task considering the animals here party all night or something and the roosters must be confused or over-achievers because they crow at four in the morning to wake us up. C'est la vie.
(La vie!)
Erin and Miller