Tilory is a community of about 2,000 residents, located on the border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic. The village is extremely remote and difficult to access from the Haitian capital, and it is very difficult for Haitians to cross the border to access goods and services on the Dominican side, especially so in the past year due to political unrest and violence in Haiti. There is no electricity in Tilory, and the community has been in the process of building an aqueduct to bring clean water to its residents for several years.

The people of Tilory, as in most of rural Haiti, live in extreme poverty. The lack of adequate health care means many common, easily curable diseases are allowed to go untreated. Much of the illness in the area is related to the lack of clean drinking water.

The Public Clinic Of Tilory was opened in 2003 by Clemencia Profeta and myself. Clemencia is a Nurse who studied and earned her degree in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. I was a Peace Corps volunteer when the clinic was created, and am now a student at the Charity School Of Nursing in New Orleans. Our goal is to bring medicines, treatment, and health education to the people of the border region.