Cleaning up the Garabage

Preventive Health Strategies

This garbage pile has been her since 2008. Every time we drive by it Annette gets pissed "Why? Hasn't anybody cleaned that up?"

God works in amazing ways. This week I met the mayor of the community with the garbage pile.

Thanks to the many supporters on this trip the mayor is personally overseeing the cleaning up of this garbage pile today. On a Sunday!

Let me make that clear "today!"

New mayor!

God put us in the right place at the right time!

I wonder how many times the previous mayor was given the resources to do this job.

Happy birthday Annette!  It is because of you that this garbage is being cleaned up today.

Getting this garbage cleaned up is going to prevent lots of health problems both long term and today.

This is meaningful. Thank you to everybody that supports

www.meaningfulmedicine.org
God is good!

Michael St-Vilien

I'm sitting next to Michael in the back of a Haitian Tap-Tap (painted pickup/Haitian primary form of transportation) as I write this.

Michael Does an excellent job of negotiating for the organizations we work with in Haiti.

We have used Michael as a negotiator in government negotiations.

We have used Michael to calm an angry mob.

We have used Michael to calm angry clergy.

We have used Michael in negotiating supplies from Haitians and other organizations that have what we are lacking. We have had times that the thing we need is not available for sale in Haiti.

Michael is very well connected and was able to help us get what was needed. Michael has done this type of negotiating for us on things like fans, medicines, medical care. For those who have not operated in a third world country. I can not express the importance of this skill set. We have used other interpreters. The difference is like driving a 1982 Chevy Pinto and a brand new Ferrari they both do the same thing. But? How do you describe the difference to somebody that has never driven.

Michael understands the nuances if the English language this has come in most handy when we have been in danger and did not know it.

Personally the scariest place i have ever been in Haiti. It was after dark and the place that I had arranged to stay with my kids changed their mind.

Michael was not with us. Michael dropped everything and helped us to find a safe place to stay on a moments notice.

Michael is well connected in the Haitian community. Michael has helped us scale up quickly for events. Michael has with little notice get us 25 good English interpreters for a medical team.

Michael is always willing to do what is needed.

Michael's phone number 5093837508

Michael St-Vilien

Michael Does an excellent job of negotiating for the organizations we work with in Haiti.

We have used Michael as a negotiator in government negotiations.

We have used Michael to calm an angry mob.

We have used Michael in negotiating supplies from Haitians and other organizations that have what we are lacking. We have had times that the thing we need is not available for sale in Haiti.

Michael is very well connected and was able to help us get what was needed. Michael has done this type of negotiating for us on things like fans, medicines, medical care. For those who have not operated in a third world country. I can not express the importance of this skill set. We have used other interpreters. The difference is like driving a 1982 Chevy Pinto and a brand new Ferrari they both do the same thing. But? How do you describe the difference to somebody that has never driven.

Michael understands the nuances if the English language this has come in most handy when we have been in danger and did not know it.

Personally the scariest place i have ever been in Haiti. It was after dark and the place that I had arranged to stay with my kids changed their mind.

Michael was not with us. Michael dropped everything and helped us to find a safe place to stay on a moments notice.

Michael is well connected in the Haitian community. Michael has helped us scale up quickly for events. Michael has with little notice get us 25 good English interpreters for a medical team.

Michael is always willing to do what is needed.

Michael's phone number 5093837508

Michael St.-vilien the best Haitian Interpreter

The best interpreter in Haiti. Michael has been my interpreter on several trips to Haiti. Michael is a true professional. I would highly recommend him to any groups heading to Haiti. Michael does an amazing job of keeping me safe and well informed. I now take my kids to Haiti with me if I know Michael can interpret for me, this is the highest recommendation I can give Michael. The easiest way to contact Michael is to message him through Facebook.

Michael St-Vilien

Thank you!

Once again you kept me safe. Today you also protected my kids. Thank you

Blake Woockman

Thank You

Inspirational YOUTUBE videos

I am stuck in a traffic jam in Haiti.  I have been thinking about youtube videos that inspire me.

1)  Hans Rosling: Stats that reshape your world-view

2)  Derek Sivers: How to start a movement

3)  Simon Sinek: Start with Why

4)  How to live before you die - Steve Job explains

5)  Barry Schwartz: The paradox of choice

6)  Randy Pausch’s Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams

7) 1989

8)  Cure for Alcoholism

9) One Red Paper Clip

10)Abundance 

Tap-Tap is moving!!

This is a Haitian "Tap-Tap"

Homeless

One bad thing about being homeless is my clothes are always wrong. Yesterday when I left Sioux Falls I was trying to fix a frozen sewage pipe. Stayed in the airport last night.

Today it feels like a hundred degrees in Port-au-prince and I'm wearing a black turtle neck.

Wendy Rost

Have you ever had the joy of working with somebody that has a service heart? Service heart is a definition used in customer service: Serve them with a heart to satisfy their needs. Wendy is the personification of service heart.

I have had the misfortune of working with several realtors in my life. I have always thought of realtors as a necessary evil.

Wendy completely changed my mind about the whole profession. Not once did I doubt that she had my family's best interest at heart.

Wendy not only helped us through the tough choices she did not second-guess us when our decisions did not match her counsel. In my previous experiences with realtors I had always been urged to except the offer. No matter how ridiculous the offer was.

Thank you, Wendy for a fantastic experience.

Wendy Rost is the best Realtor in Sioux Falls South Dakota.