Casa de Ancianos Bettel (Dominican Republic)
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- Hosana Mateo sits in a rocking chair in nursing home Casa de Ancianos Bettel in Monte Christy, Dominican Republic. The founders of the nursing home are from Hatian decent and speak both Spanish and Creole, so they care for many Haitians who worked for the sugar cane factories, but now are too old or unhealthy to work. Hosana only speaks Creole.
- Aleman Joseph reads his Bible while waiting to be treated at a mobile medical clinic set up in the nursing home in Monte Christy, Dominican Republic.
- Josefina Herrera folds clothes for Americana Pimentel at Casa de Ancianos Bettel in Monte Christy, Dominican Republic.
- Enoc Jackson plays soccer outside a mobile clinic in Monte Christy, Dominican Republic.
- Dr. Matt Arvon performs surgery to remove a tumor from a patient at Casa de Ancianos Bettel in Monte Christy, Dominican Republic.
- Americana Pimentel sits on her bed in Casa de Ancianos Bettel in Monte Christy, Dominican Republic. Americana keeps her teddy bear, Juanita, beside her bed and calls it her daughter.
- Hosana Mateo sits on her bed in Casa de Ancianos Bettel in Monte Christy, Dominican Republic.
- A Haitian lady sits on her bed at Casa de Ancianos Bettel in Monte Christy, Dominican Republic.
- Josefina Herrera folds clothes for Americana Pimentel at Casa de Ancianos Bettel in Monte Christy, Dominican Republic.
- Men living at nursing home Casa de Ancianos Bettel rest after being seen by medical personnel in the morning in Monte Christy, Dominican Republic.
- Young men move a bull down a dirt road in front of the nursing home in Monte Christy, Dominican Republic.
- America Pimentel sits in her rocking chair as other women chat beside her in the nursing home Casa de Ancianos Bettel in Monte Christy, Dominican Republic. Even in the nursing home, Dominicans and Haitians feel resentment toward one another from the countries' heated histories.
- A Bible sits in a hat at nursing home Casa de Ancianos Bettel in Monte Christy, Dominican Republic.
- Maria Pirisma laughs in the kitchen while talking with a lady in nursing home Casa de Ancianos Bettel in Monte Christy, Dominican Republic. Maria and her husband Gerardo Difren founded the nursing home in 1989.
- A lady eats at the Casa de Ancianos Bettel in Monte Christy, Dominican Republic.
- Missionary Bob Nilsen speaks with patients at a mobile medical clinic set up at a nursing home in Monte Christy, Dominican Republic. Bob is the director of SCORE International's medical ministry in Juan Dolio, Dominican Republic.
- A kitten looks for attention from patients waiting to be seen at a mobile clinic in Monte Christy, Dominican Republic.
- Aleman Joseph has his temperature taken at a mobile clinic set up in Casa de Ancianos Bettel in Monte Christy, Dominican Republic.
- Preston Kendrick prays for a dying man at the Casa de Ancianos Bettel in Monte Christy, Dominican Republic.
- A man goes into heart failure lying outside of nursing home Casa de Ancianos Bettel in Monte Christy, Dominican Republic. He was taken to several local hospitals who refused to treat him because of his age and the expense of treatment.