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Hospitality from an IDP camp / l’hospitalité d’un camp de PDI (le français au deuxième paragraphe)

4/5/2010

 
The last IDP camp (named Apad, in the Croix-des-Bouquets area) to which our mobile clinic went was very special. They had prepared a 3-sided tent structure for us to use (as the pharmacy). It was made up of over 270 families. When we arrived several ladies were sweeping the hardened dirt surface of the tent floor and the surrounding space and then sprinkled water to keep the dust down. A big jovial man, a camp leader named Volma, introduced himself and said he would look after the question of maintaining order in the line-ups through the day. And he did. The whole clinic surface (including their tent, the additional open-sided tent that we brought, as well as a fairly large area outside both which was mainly occupied by benches that served as a waiting area for the patients) was in the welcome shade of a huge mango tree. Around 1 o’clock, the camp people brought cold soft drinks to the health workers. All in all, it was one of the best ordered and friendliest of all the camps that our mobile clinics have been working in. The people knew our Haitian partner very well and I’m sure that was one of the reasons for this exceptional reception.

Le dernier camp de PDI (nommé Apad, dans la zone de Croix-des-Bouquets) auquel notre clinique mobile est allée a été vraiment spécial. Ils avaient préparé une tente à 3 parois (qu’on pouvait employer comme la pharmacie). Plus de 270 familles sont recensées dans ce camp. Lorsque nous y sommes arrivés quelques femmes étaient en train de balayer le plancher fait de terre battue, ainsi que l’espace environnant; elles arrosaient légèrement le sol afin de réduire la poussière. Un des chefs de file du camp, un grand monsieur, très jovial, s’était présenté pour nous rassurer que lui, il s’occuperait du maintien de l’ordre tout au long de la journée. Et il l’a fait. Tout l’espace de la clinique (incluant leur tente ainsi que celle que nous avions apportée, plus une aire assez étendue occupée principalement par des bancs qui servaient très informellement d’une salle d’attente) se trouvait sous l’ombrage d’un immense manguier. Vers 13 heures des gens du camp ont apporté des boissons froides pour tous les travailleurs de santé. Somme toute, c’était le camp le plus accueillant et convivial de tous les camps où nous avons pu travailler. Les gens connaissaient très bien notre partenaire haïtien et cela a contribué sans aucun doute à cette réception des plus chaleureuses.

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