The beginning of this journey started from a place of personal experience for me. I was in the United States when my brother called me with the news that we had almost lost our mother from an asthma attack. She was hours away from a medical clinic, and hours away from my brother who was in the city of Port-au-Prince with a truck that could have got her to a medical hospital quicker. In desperation close family friends, who were like sons to my mother and brothers to us, carried her on their back for hours to save her life.
My siblings and I have taken many trips back to our home town to hold health fairs, but it was that moment that it was solidified in me that it was urgent to build a clinic in the mountains. The 2010 earthquake and the many hurricanes that passed through the island, only furthered the urgency we have. We have lost many loved ones in this journey due to lack of access to proper medicine or medical expertise. For as long as I can remember there has always been a burden to go back and provide care. But it is now that I, along side of my family, am taking the steps to carry the burden out.
It is out of my love for Jesus that I find the strength to move forward on this call to build the clinic in the mountains. This is a burden of love, a burden of joy, a burden to serve Jesus with everything that I can and love His people as He has loved me. Though this is a burden that was given to me, it is not something I can do without you sharing the burden with me and my family. It would be our honor to have you partner with us to build this clinic and be a tangible example of love to Haiti.
- Myriam Leonidas (Founder)