Caribbean Children's Foundation has worked hard to bring medical facilities to Île-à-Vache, a remote island in Haiti where there are no modern construction tools or equipment. Up until now, a hospital was non-existent on the tiny island. Prior to construction of the medical clinic, medical mission teams came to the island to provide medical care. Makeshift clinics were set up in local churches or schools.

Everything is done through manual labor with crude tools. Once building materials reach the island, mules are used to transport the goods to the worksite on the mountainside. All the sand, stones, cement, cement blocks, re-bar and other construction materials has to be brought from the mainland via boat and mule. People came to mix mortar, transport water to the worksite bucketload by bucketload, prepare the meal for the workers, hoist cement up to the roof, lay cement on the roof and many other tasks. This photo shows some of the workers on top of the building as they completed laying down the thick layer of cement.

For many people of Île-à-Vache, medical care has been affordable and unobtainable. One must be able to afford the boat trip to the mainland, a taxi to the hospital, treatment at the hospital, prescriptions, meals while on the mainland and the return trip home. Some simply do not have this kind of money and their malady is left untreated, at times resulting in death.