tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90650926528520355582024-03-13T06:45:25.128-07:00Terrier Rouge January 2012Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9065092652852035558.post-71268754224203945562012-07-16T08:45:00.001-07:002012-07-16T08:46:12.651-07:00NORTHERN HAITI HOPE FOUNDATION RECEPTION, AUGUST 2, 2012<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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To RSVP, <a href="http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?oeidk=a07e64urq5484148366&llr=pt9kyekab">click here</a>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9065092652852035558.post-65765302448395252132012-01-19T18:03:00.000-08:002012-06-19T13:04:10.751-07:00TERRIER ROUGE, JANUARY 2012<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">This blog is to tell the photo story of our trip to Terrier Rouge, Haiti in January of 2012. If you are here, you probably know that, but if you discovered it by chance and want an inside look at northeast Haiti and its many wonders, keep reading.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Of course, one can't take such a trip and not learn a few things about one self...I was reminded that after some 35 years of journalism my default mode is to think and act like a journalist. My first reaction is to detach, observe and photograph. I did this on quite a few occasions and the photos are better for it, while my experienced lessened at times as a result. On other occasions, such as when we were preparing the food for the two food drops, I didn't get many good pictures simply because my mind and hands were busy...when there was a break, I'd take a few, then back to filling the bags...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">It is clear that my photo journalism instinct/habit is quite intact by the composition of many of these images. Almost subconsciously, I seem to be fully invested in the old adage "every picture tells a story." Pastor Carrie Evans, an excellent photographer in her own right, commented that I took a lot of "action shots"...She was quite right as I was trying to capture what was actually happening in each moment or some important aspect of a time or a place. Next time, assuming there is one, I'll shoot more pics of the Haitian people.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">My old JMU friend Lou Emerson paid me a nice compliment. Lou was the editor of JMU's student paper The Breeze where I learned my first photo journalism lessons. He kindly put up link to the blog post below on his <a href="http://fauquiernow.com/page.cfm/article/After-mission,-local-man-seeks-to-help-Haiti">Fauquier Now</a> website.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Also, if you want to read more about both weeks of this trip go to Carrie's blog...she is an excellent writer and her perspective is both heartfelt and well described. Carrie has made several trips to Terrier Rouge and she is extremely comfortable with the place and the people and she clearly charishes her time there even while, as a wife and a mother, she misses her family tremendously. Her blog is a <a href="http://pastorcarrieinhaiti2012.blogspot.com/">journey worth taking.</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Yesterday, I ordered a book about the history of Haiti...I'm determined to try and figure out how it got to be the way it is, and I'm sure historical context is a major piece of this puzzle. I think if I can explain it better, I can better recruit support of our Northern Haiti Hope Foundation will fund a variety of projects under the guidance of Pere Bruno.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><i>(Update: Today the book arrived. I had suspected that the primary reason so many Haitians live under such harsh conditions was the lack of an effective central government. No matter how poor the country, it's the governments job to help provide utilities, education, trash removal...all the stuff we take for granted. It appeared to me that the Haitian government either didn't care enough or lacked the resources to make it better -- or both. A good government would either provide some necessary systems or provide an economic framework of stability which would allow private parties to do so...</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><i>With that as an uneducated opinion, I opened Philippe Girard's book <u>Haiti: The Tumultous History -- From Pearl of the Caribbean To Broken Nation</u> and my eyes stopped on page 205 on a sub-heading that said "Conclusion: Predatory Elite." What it said confirmed my suspicions until further research proves otherwise.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">"Haitian expert Robert E. Maguire has coined the expression "predatory elite" to describe the peculiar blend of gangsterism, populism and out-right theft that has defined the country's political superstructure for most of it's two-hundred-year history. As mistletoe feeds off a tree, Haitian leaders have sucked away billions of dollars of their starving countrymen's money while offering nothing of </span>discernible<span style="font-family: inherit;"> value in return."</span></b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Now, through various conversations I have learned of Haitian "elitists" who say the problem isn't the government or those who govern, the problem is the people, but I'm not buying it...People are people and the Haitians are no different, when given a helping hand and a little direction they can accomplish anything.)</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">This village in northeast Haiti is 70 air miles from Port-au-Prince but it takes 8 hours to get their by car. One of the first things I learned about Haiti is that there are large mountains in the interior of the island– up to 8,500 feet tall. By way of reference, ski town Park City, Utah is at 7,500 feet. So, you've heard the saying "you can't get there from here"? Well, you can't.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">So we flew into Santiago, Dominican Republic which looked like a wild west town when we arrived and like the U.S. with armed guards when we returned. That is how much one's perspective changes after a week in Haiti. Santiago seemed dirty, primitive and dangerous on arrival and well-organized, clean and down right orderly when we returned. I even got used to the guys with the big guns guarding the hotel, the neighborhood restaurants, and my favorite, the valet parking.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">We traveled by bus to Haiti where the crossing over the border is best described as a "scene out of Dante's Inferno." I lack the vocabulary to accurately describe the chaos, the crowds, the trash and the craziness. It was very dramatic...for lack of a better word. We headed off to Terrier Rouge in the back of a flat bed truck which afforded us a safe haven and a great view. Until it rained. Oh well, at least it was warm.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Terrier Rouge is about an hour away. It is a fairly large town (20,000 in the region) which lacks both running water and electricity. It is located about 30 miles from Haiti’s second largest city Cap Haitien.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">"Cap" is located on the water pressed up against the mountains. It was not impacted by the 2010 earthquake, but it is quite similar to Port-au-Prince in its sprawl and poverty. Over 200,000 people and not a stop sign or traffic light to be seen which makes it the most chaotic place I’ve ever been. Not to mention dangerous. An earthquake of any scope would devastate the place. Especially the houses hanging precariously from the hills above the city…They would simply roll down the mountain into the sea port.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Pere Bruno is one of those amazing people who quietly changes the world. His school is a project done in partnership with <a href="http://bethlehemministry.org/home.htm">Bethlehem Ministry, Inc</a>., a non-profit organization out of Atlanta, created for the sole purpose of aiding Haiti's poor. He was recently quoted saying, “if you have faith, and do not doubt, you can say to this mountain jump into the sea. And it will." After spending a week with this man and seeing all he has accomplished and all he aspires to accomplish in the future, I believe him. If Pere Bruno decides the mountain is moving, it’s going to get wet. And, in typical Pere Bruno fashion it will happen calmly and deliberately with minimal fanfare. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Bethlehem's Haitian efforts started some 25 years ago when they partnered with Bruno to establish a series of elementary schools in some of the Haiti's less recognized and lesser served regions. Over time they have established a Montessori based pre-K through 8th grade school (Ecole St. Barthélémy); an income generating, sustainable agricultural project (Jatrofa Pepinyè); and a medical clinic (Clinique Espérance et Vie), which seems to be making great strides at meeting the health and wellness needs of the local population.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Construction has begun on a high school adjacent to the Ecole St. Barthélémy and the first $70,000 of the $200,000 needed to complete the project has been raised. Currently, <a href="http://bethlehemministry.org/school_overview.htm">Ecole St. Barthélémy</a> is educating and, more importantly, feeding 700 students per day. To attend, students need $250 in tuition and a uniform. Uniforms and backpacks have been donated by various entities and some students are sponsored.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The project’s intent is fairly straight-forward. Both Bethlehem and Pere Bruno recognized years ago that education is the only way to break the cycle of poverty in Haiti – a country devastated by a harsh environment, a long-series of corrupt governments with little interest in helping its people, limited public utilities and transportation, no widespread individual agricultural efforts that can be utilized to feed it’s masses, a unique language that isolates them and a host of odd traditions and superstitions fueled by voodoo among other things. Suffice to say, it’s a complicated place with complicated problems.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">That said, they are making great strides. The power lines are up in Terrier Rouge although nothing runs through them. Ironic at best. About six miles down the road, a new university opened on January 12th – the two year anniversary of the Port-au-Prince earthquake. Both the presidents of Haiti and the Dominican Republic visited the area while we were there (lots of helicopters which is odd for Haiti) as did former U.S. President Bill Clinton. That said, the primary mode of transport remains horses (ponies really, and donkeys)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">I was part of a mission trip sponsored by the Warrenton Rotary and the Warrenton Presbyterian Church. We were an eclectic group – old, young, black, white, men, women and a variety of religions. Our primary mission was to learn about the various projects going on in the area and to take these stories back to the U.S. As I told a fellow traveler “This is about branding Haiti and all of us are part of that effort.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">We saw many amazing things, places and people and had a wonderful grounding experience. One of our treks was up the mountain to the very remote village of Petit Bourg De Danda that previously had a broken well. The Warrenton Rotary raised $2,000 last year to get the villagers a new well, so we went to see how it was doing. The residents were delighted to see us and explained (not to me, I don’t speak Creole or French) that the new well had all but wiped out Cholera there and generally improved the health of everyone. We were very welcomed guests, and I left there resolved to build some additional wells in other local villages…</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">On the second anniversary of the 2010 earthquake we attended a moving service at the school before heading off to do a food drop at two isolated villages. The night before we had repackaged over a ton of food in to individual bags for distribution to those in need - rice, beans, oil, pasta and salt herring. A community leader distributed chits to various needy folks and they were lined up waiting for us when we arrived.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Both of these villages, Phaeton and Paulette, were both "company towns" for a factory that manufactured rope from a local plant. When synthetic rope became less expensive to produce the factory went out of business leaving it's employees with no way to make a living. As a result, the overwhelming majority of the food was distributed to elderly people who once worked for the rope plant. This is something Pere Bruno does whenever he has the extra cash to buy the food and it is very moving to see and always leaves at least one volunteer in tears and the rest not far behind...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">We also built a garden for the clinic specifically for fruit trees and medicinal herbs. I can’t say I was particularly pleased with my design (done over a bowl of delicious pumpkin soup at lunch), but I’ll be delighted if it’s there and functioning as intended next month, next year and ten years from now…The Warrenton Presbyterians coming in behind us will plant it and hopefully a few of our new Haitian friends will tend it from there. Richard, who manages the clinic, did get some barbed-wire so he could keep the goats and pigs out…hopefully. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">While in Cap Haitien we visited the Kay Anj (Angel House) Orphanage </span></span>established by four folks from Haymarket, VA. It was, as all visits to orphanages are, both inspiring and distressing at the same time. This particular place is a wonderful oasis in the middle of a hillside slum. I feel badly about calling the area a "slum" since everyone seems to be doing the very best they can, but I don't know a better word to describe it. The children were sweet and loving and leaving them was difficult. To read more about this amazing project, <a href="http://helpinghaitianangels.org/hha/wp3/">click here</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">As guest of the school, we had deluxe accommodations – electricity (solar and generator), running water (no hot water), three square meals a day, briefly sort of cold beer each evening, an all important ceiling fan…and, yes, believe it or not, WiFi! So we were hardly roughing it. Cell phones worked perfectly in not inexpensively. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">That said, one of the great things about the projects tackled by Pere Bruno is he knows his limitations. He thinks globally and acts locally and he only tackles the mountains he knows he can move so efforts in Terrier Rouge, at the school and farm and the clinic all produce achievable goals and eventual results. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">My first goal is to raise enough money to provide several remote villages with clean water under Pere Bruno's direction. We had tried to visit such a village last week, but it had rained there and the road (as it is) was a giant bog and impassable.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">For more info about the school, farm and clinic, <a href="https://access.foundationsource.com/nonprofit/bethlehem-ministry">click here</a> and scroll down a little or<a href="http://esperanceetvie.blogspot.com/"> here</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Warrenton gang left from DCA, went through Miami where we met Pastor Carrie Evans and then proceeded to Santiago, Dominican Republic. In the group, me, Tony and Kevin Tedeschi, Matt and Renard Carlos, Asiaha Veney, Stan Parkes, Jim Lavin, John Connolly and Carrie Evans.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Of course, the maximum amount of luggage was brought full of many contributions...so much so that the hotel had to hire a truck to move it. I rode in the truck -- in the cab -- the first of my many truck rides on this trip. The only odd thing that happened is the driver brought the truck to a stop to make a call on his cell phone. This would have been fairly mundane (and pleasing to Oprah) had he not done so while in the left lane of a two lane highway...Happily, we weren't rear-ended.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In spite of the fact that it was 11 pm on a Sunday by the time we got in and back out of our hotel, we wandered up the street and found a very nice outdoor cafe called Noah where we had some good and much needed food and some cold Presidentes. Downtown Santiago is a bustling place with hotels, casinos and outdoor cafes all blaring music and featuring much baseball and soccer on their TVs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The humor for the evening came from the attractive young hostess insisting to young Matt that there was "no dancing" inside the club even while we could see people dancing. We resolved that she had simply decided that Matt would not be dancing (with her or anybody else)...Also the "preferred parking" across the street from the place was guarded by a small man with a big gun. Evidently, the gun of choice for guarding things in both DR and Haiti is the pistol grip shotgun...we kept calling it "sawed off," but that's not right...sawed off means the barrel(s) is/are shortened so the shot blast expands faster...these guns had regular barrels but had pistol grips instead of a stock...Luckily, we never saw any in use.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now, ironically, almost every business we saw had a "no guns" sign on the door...along with no animals, and, in the case of the casino in our hotel, no phones and no cameras...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Santiago, Dominican Republic.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Home sweet home for a night...apparently folks in the DR travel in large groups...Each of our rooms had three beds. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">...and included breakfast.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The view of downtown Santiago from our balcony...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Hotel, casino and the bus that would take us to Haiti.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Lots of luggage loaded through a window.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Lots of luggage loaded more casually in Pere Bruno's truck.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Our first view of the border. We arrived early and waited almost 90 minutes for Pere Bruno to come take us across the border. Evidently, you don't even think about trying this on your own. Now that I've done it, I endorse this method. That said, at some point a pit stop was needed and the building that provided relief on other trips was locked this day. Stan and I went on a scouting mission and a Haitian man quickly recognized our dilemma. He proposed a solution in perfect english..."Pee pee" he said holding open a chain link fence and pointing us behind a building. Oh well, when in Rome...He expected a tip for his good sumaritanism and was duly rewarded.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Several people tried to describe the border crossing to me and none really succeeded. Now I know why. Afterwards, we agreed that we all lacked sufficient vocabulary to describe the crowds, the trash, the mud, the tents, the busses, the trucks, the scooters, etc. It was complete chaos. It was an "open" border day which multiplied the craziness by a factor of ten...John Connolly called it "dramatic" and I likened it to a scene out of a movie. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The back of Pere Bruno's flat bed truck was the perfect spot to take it all in...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I'm not entirely sure why all these people were there or what they were doing...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The UN is everywhere in Haiti and it's abundantly unclear why or what they are meant to be doing...this was my first UN sighting. As my friend Rob Flikeid told me in an text, stay away from the guys in the blue helmets (a UN trademark) they are the first to get it!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">On the way in I called Quanaminthe a "wild west town" on the way out it seemed rather tame...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A little way into our road trip to Terrier Rouge, it started to rain. Asiaha was clever enough to bring a poncho while the rest of us sought shelter under a hastily installed tarp.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">John toughed it out. He got wet. Really, really wet.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is Tony, Jim and my dorm room at the St. Barthelemy school...power, water, a great ceiling fan and...drum roll, please...WiFi. Hardly roughing it!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Where we ate each day in one of the school's kitchens.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Me and Asiaha and some of the school kids...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">John and some students...some happier to see the camera than others...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">One of many delicious meals we were served. If you don't like rice, beans and hot sauce, you will have a long week. However, if you do, with a side of beef, pork, chicken and maybe even goat, you will eat well. I enjoyed all of the food save the oatmeal which I never liked anyway...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Somewhere during the week I was reminded that I like cold drinks. I didn't miss soft drinks, I missed COLD drinks. On one day, our lunch included lemonade with ice in it. It was made from frozen packets of purified water and on a hot Haitian day is was perfect. On another day I took a Coke left over from the night before's beer and soft drink happy hour and put it in the freezer in the kitchen. I pulled it out at lunch and everybody who wanted some got a few fingers worth of cold Coca-Cola...it disappeared rather quickly.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Cold. Cold is good.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">There is an opening ceremony each day at school complete with songs, prayers and raising the flag while the school band played. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">School attendance was off a bit on the days leading up to the anniversary of the big earthquake. Pere Bruno told us over breakfast that a local woman had taken to the radio and urged everyone to fast for three days prior to the anniversary and to keep their kids out of school lest some curse or some other evil thing befall them...She clearly had an impact as many children were absent...Pere Bruno was not amused.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">One of the three dogs that guard the school compound at night. The other two are kept up during the day and out at night. I made friends with all three. I'm guessing they know a "dog person" when they smell one...</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9065092652852035558.post-68596203881459401902012-01-19T17:34:00.001-08:002012-01-23T11:28:35.822-08:00TUESDAY, JANUARY 10, 2012<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">The view out our door...those are sweet potatoes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is our actual door...apparently the locksmith only had a "safe lock"! I never felt like I needed to lock the door and I was perpetually fearful of losing the key which would be difficult, if not impossible, to duplicate...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A view of the school...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">How cute are these kids as they file into their classroom.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Down a local street adjacent to the compound. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The clinic adjacent to the school.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">St. Barthelemy School from the roof of the clinic.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The clinic's solar panels.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The neighborhood...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The clinic also has a generator and what we would call a power box and a street light. Folks sometimes read under the light at night since most homes don't have power. There is always a gaggle of folks around the box charging phones...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The patient...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Many Haitians raise doves...we presume for eggs and to eat...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Edward, a recent graduate, and Tony with the Lakers jersey Tony's son Mike sent to Edward. The name on the back is "Fletch." That wasn't easy to explain.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Pig with a "keep out of the house" device in place.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Asiaha wants to be a nurse so she spent a day in the clinic...this is the pharmacy. The flight to Miami was Asiaha's first plane ride. Imagine, the first time you leave the country, you go to Haiti. Of course, on her first trip through airport security, she was pulled out of line. I accompanied her through customs on the way back in and now she is an accomplished international traveler. To her credit, she handled what should have been an overwhelming experience for a first time traveler with great composure and grace. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We took a soccer ball to the group of kids playing soccer in a small plaza next to the school. They were using a partially inflated rubber basketball...that had to be hard on the feet. We gave the ball to one of Pere Bruno's guys who explained that it was for everybody and that it needed to find it's way back to the gate at game's end so it could be used the next day and the next day...It was still in play when we left.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I'm a pig, and I'm leaving. That's not my flip flop either, I'm a pig....</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Ahhh...it's a beautiful day!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A bivouac kitchen outside a home in Terrier Rouge. These are pretty common and a good way to keep the cooking fire out of the house.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Stan, or somebody, took a bunch of Hot Wheels type cars and trucks...very popular.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Carlos brothers got a good game of keep away going...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Matt, Renard and Asiaha seemed to confuse the Haitian kids at first. It was their skin color. Evidently, they hadn't seen many (if any) black Americans. They would point to their arms and then point to Matt or Renard or Asiaha's arm. Yes, we are the same color is how the conversation went between two parties without a common language. All three are smart, charming young people and all had an easy manner with the kids and adults.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Yes, they are playing Angry Birds!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Like I said, some are camera shy, others clearly are not!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">There was a gentleman staying at the school named Andy. He is an agricultural engineer from Georgia and with the support of his church and some other organization (can't remember), he has started a commercial farm. Andy says you can grow anything in Haiti once you get past the top soil...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Among the things he grows -- ghost peppers. Yike.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Millions of lizards.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is a Haitian hedge...it's made of a fast growing cactus that is impenetrable. The thorns break off in your skin and the juice will blind you if it gets in your eye. It grows very quickly and is kept in shape with a machete.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Got thorns...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">They are sewing something at Andy's farm with these antique foot powered Singers...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Matt pointing out the ever-present UN presence. On this particular day, a U.S. Secret Service agent was with the UN guys from Uruguay. Turns out President Clinton visited Andy's farm the next day...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Pere Bruno enjoys some fresh "coconut water."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Cheers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Three modes of local transportation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And where are you two headed this fine day?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Pere Bruno's cashew farm.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The road to Pere Bruno's cattle farm was tricky. He is a man of faith and driving in Haiti requires just that. I drove one leg of this journey and really enjoyed it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The cactus hedge and some barbed wire makes for a very good fence.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Pere Bruno's Brahmas help pump some water into their trough.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The brands in Haiti are big...JMB for Jean M. Bruno. But they don't look like brands done with a branding iron. It look like they took a hot iron and carved the initials onto the animals. However, they do it, it works.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Hanging out at the cattle farm.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Pere Bruno surveying the cashew farm.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">On the way home, we visited a new set of triplets that recently arrived in Terrier Rouge...they live in a small two-room house (that Tony is looking in) with nine other people. Note the ducks. Pere Bruno is trying to help them out and various folks have chipped in...Here is a photo of them taken in December.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">More doves at the triplets home...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Pere Bruno with one of the trips.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The kitchen...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is a random photo taken from the back of a moving truck in the shadows of late afternoon. It has many flaws...not the least of which is it's out of focus...I just liked something about it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">These nice ladies did our laundry and hung it up on the line for us to retrieve...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Kevin, Lulu and Matt.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9065092652852035558.post-52342855491023356522012-01-19T17:27:00.000-08:002012-01-22T19:28:56.813-08:00WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 2012<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Construction on the new high school being built at the St. Barthelemy school compound.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The main road in Terrier Rouge.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Water pollution, and trash in general. is a big problem...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Nat Geo's John Connolly...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Tedeschi men...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Note the inscriptions, the artwork and the aluminum roof...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Last year the Rotary group visited Petit Bourg De Danda which is located about 15 miles up in the hills above Terrier Rouge. The village's well was broken so Tony Tedeschi and Stan Parkes put the word out on Facebook and quickly raised the $2,000 needed for a new well. I didn't give it much thought at the time, but after our visit I was damn proud of the Petty family's contribution having seen how important that well is and having seen how much the residents appreciate what was done for their community. So on Wednesday, we headed off to visit "Danda," and the road was a little wet in a few places.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And eventually we got stuck...all in all, somewhere between four to six times depending on your official definition of "stuck." Each time, some Haitians appeared literally out of nowhere (because that is where we were in the middle of) to help get us unstuck. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I did not get a better photo of this, but this woman was digging the mud out from under the tire with her hand. The Haitians do not lack determination.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It literally took a village to get the truck unstuck...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">John does the two-step into a rut to avoid a fall...Note the truck is going backward, so we still have to find a way through this bog.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This time John goes down...Note the truck is STILL going backward.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Stan and John celebrate their muddiness...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">As we got closer to Danda, the people were happy to see us...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Most of them...who knows what was on this child's mind or what hardships she had endured...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Since Danda is at the top of the hill, once we got going we had to keep going, leaving our army of pushers to hike up. Note the fishtailing tire tracks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Carrie, a Danda woman, Tony, Pere Bruno, Jim and Stan. Tony, Jim and Stan all Rotary members.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Kevin takes a well deserved break.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Matt and Renard made a video diary of the trip. John was their cameraman.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This woman insisted that John wash the mud off. He tried to politely decline, but she wouldn't take no for an answer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A well-earned thank you hug.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Kentucky Derby 132 -- 2006, the ill-fated Barbaro.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Mom and the kids heading home from a big day of pigging around.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Last year, these two were examined in the dark by a physician who was in the group. He used an iPhone as a flashlight as there is no power in Danda. These two needed further treatment at the clinic and were delivered there by motorcycle the next day. The clean water from the new well is part of their current good health.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Rotarian well-builders Tony and Stan.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Danda also has a school...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Note the Christmas greeting in English...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Asiaha and Carrie with some local school children at the broken well on the school grounds. Before we left the Rotary well fund had provided the money for it's repair.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Culture clash: The ever-present cargo on the head of a young Haitian woman and Kevin carrying a satellite phone. The phone came into play after the Warrenton Presbyterian group got stranded without any communication after the 2010 earthquake. Now, the sat phone only goes to the most remote locations although cell phone signal in Danda was quite strong...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">These trees make riding in the back of an open truck interesting. When someone yells duck...you duck, no questions asked.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The road back down looked fine...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This was my favorite tee shirt of the day...didn't get a very good shot of it: Punk Rock Girl.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Note the number on this house...I believe this is the village of Garrot.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Cell phone tower...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Americans in the back of a truck watching a cow cross the road under power lines that don't have any power...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Back at school...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Asiaha and John work on the new garden's border...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Big giant grubs...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">They're not just for breakfast any more...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The garden crew getting after it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Tony and Richard who runs the clinic...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Pere Bruno's stash of food for the Thursday food drop...rice, beans, pasta, oil and salted fish.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Lulu lends a hand.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Pasta.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Edward and Richard both had a very fast and efficient way of closing up the finished bag...I watched them very carefully, but couldn't duplicate their technique.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">An assembly line.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Lulu helps clean up.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Carrie, Lulu and Kevin.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9065092652852035558.post-88407248803534042632012-01-19T17:09:00.001-08:002012-01-22T19:31:46.549-08:00THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 2012<span style="font-size: large;">The two-year anniversary of the Port-au-Prince earthquake that killed over 250,000 people by many estimates was Thursday, January 12th. The day was remembered with a service conducted upstairs in the school after breakfast. While it was a school holiday many children attended wearing their Sunday best.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We were given handouts with the music, all in Creole...I didn't understand a word that was said (all Creole), but the service was moving none the less. The singing was wonderful. Some samples as video and audio files are at the end of this blog.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Morning light in the "cafeteria" where 700 kids get at least one square meal a day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Our intrepid truck loaded with food packages.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Edward kindly was our beer courier. Each night we had a case of Prestige, the Haitian beer, some Sprite and some Coke for happy hour and post dinner star gazing and daily debriefing. All slightly chilled...It made for a good time to sit around together and talk about the days events or other weighty matters like Star Wars characters, movies, music, current events...you name it. The stars were amazing and each night we were treated to a spectacular moonrise. At Pere Bruno's farm we found what we thought was a lime, but it turned out to be an orange...it went well in the Prestige. The next day we asked Edward to buy us an orange which perplexed him mightily. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Loaded up and headed to Phaeton and Paulette.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The road to Phaeton and Paulette. This area is a great plain leading to the coast. It almost looks like Africa or some parts of the Middle East. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Folks lined up waiting in Phaeton. Phaeton used to have a rope factory which provided jobs, housing and electricity for both "company towns" and much of the Terrier Rouge area. When synthetic rope flooded the market the factory went out of business stranding all the people worked there. Most never left and many of the people who received aid this day were elderly. A community leader organizes this effort giving chits to needy folks. This means some get left out most certainly, but it does create an orderly distribution for those who need it the most. Pere Bruno told us he brings food to these communities "whenever I have the money."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The distribution point is the local clinic.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Aid seekers and aid givers line up.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">An elderly woman thanks Pere Bruno for his kindness.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I'm told that each time there is a food drop someone is overwhelmed. This time it was Asiaha. I saw it happen (and have the moment on video). She gave a bag a food to an woman and I don't know what was said, if anything, but the moment seemed to overpower Asiaha who marched straight to the porch to regroup. Here Tony tries to comfort her. I told her I understood, I had that same moment during the anniversary service that morning and I was literally hiding behind the camera during this food drop. She rallied, and carried on, no doubt, moved deeply by the experience. It was impossible not to be... </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">These photos contrast the beauty of this place and the many needs of it's people...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is one of my favorites as it captures so many aspects of what took place at that place at that particular moment framed by mother nature.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Edward help lift Asiaha's spirits. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The church and clinic at Phaeton.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Rope factory ruins...this road leads to the Bay of Ft. Liberte...we didn't get down to the water, which I now regret.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">While the village of Phaeton enjoyed some charm, Paulette is nothing short of desperate and desolate. It is literally in the middle of nowhere and trees are sparse. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Another large crowd awaiting some relief.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Part of the village of Paulettte.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">These guys weren't in line, they were just hanging out...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Again, the distribution was primarily to elderly folks...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A rare sight in Haiti...glasses of any kind. The kids constantly asked me about the glasses that are ever present hanging around my neck. They all wanted them and the only way I could explain why I wasn't giving them away was to make an X with my hands over the glasses and then to cover my eyes. They seem to understand that without them I couldn't see...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Paulette...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Paulette...these folks are sitting on a large disc that was used by the rope factory...It has been sitting there unused for years. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is "candy stampede" for lack of a better term. I have mixed emotions about this...Giving these kids a piece of candy seems to give them great joy. I remember a little girl in Phaeton taking the piece of candy and running back to her house with the biggest smile I'd ever seen...She ran and jumped like she had won a gold medal, or better still, the candy lottery. On the other hand, tossing candy to waiting children as we drive by seems a bit demeaning...I didn't give away any unless I could place it directly in a child's hand. That was my compromise. That said, the kids <b><i>LOVE</i></b> any candy under any circumstance and to deny them such great joy from such a small thing would be unkind. It's a slippery slope...maybe I'm over-thinking it...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Back at school the flag was at half-mast....</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I waited four days to catch Pere Bruno standing in this doorway to capture this unbelievable <b><i>understatement</i></b>...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">School's out...woo hoo!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I love all of these shots...the kids just seemed more playful and comfortable this day and we really had fun with them. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This young girl tried to help me organize a few photos...a tough job as the moment they hear the camera click they rush you to see the photo...it's great fun, but it makes that "let's take another one to be sure" simply out of the question. They got the biggest kick out of seeing themselves on the camera just like my children did when they were younger! Some things really are universal...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Either he's tickling her or she's giving him the chicken wing...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Either way, she was serious about it!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Renard and Jim got a good game of hand slap going...there is video of it at the end of the blog.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Like the big-hearted Pere Bruno</span><span style="font-size: large;">, Tony's heart is the size of a house...I knew that because I've known him and all he does for a very long time, but it was confirmed when I heard the story of Ehterson. Tony, and his wife Holly, are sponsoring this young man's education all the way through college. He was absent from school the first few days we were there and Tony's concern was obvious. It was good to seem then reunited...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>FRIDAY:</i></b> Morning ceremonies, a progress check at the garden, then off to Cap Haiten to drop off soccer supplies and visit the orphanage.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">An orphanage played a key role in my life. That orphanage...all orphanages have a profound impact on me. I can't tell you about an orphanage, write about an orphanage, visit or even think about an orphanage without getting tears in my eyes. I have tears welling up as I write this, if ever the day comes when I do not react this to any orphanage, I surmise I will have awakened dead.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So, when Friday rolled around, I was anxious about visiting the orphanage. That said, it was wonderful -- the place, the people and the children. Mind you I had a hard time talking to Amy about it later that night, but eventually I got the story out as best I could...It took a few days to process it all. And in the end, it was all good.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">More later, just had to get that out so I could move ahead with the story...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Opening ceremonies...songs, prayers, raising the flag...wonderful way to start the day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The band plays each morning...One day they practiced what seemed like all afternoon...one song over and over...The Frito bandito song...I'm sure it has a real name, but you know the one I'm talking about.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Lulu enjoys breakfast.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Most Haitians cook with charcoal, the school has a gas stove.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A typical classroom...I didn't take many pictures in the classrooms as I didn't want to disrupt things...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Honey bees and honey are part of the local food chain.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Progress in the garden...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The garden crew...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The new university about six miles from Terrier Rouge. The presidents of both Haiti and the Dominican Republic were there for the ribbon cutting the day before. It wasn't open for visitors until the next day. It was built with funds from the European Union in cooperation with the Dominican Republic and it extended electricity a little closer to Terrier Rouge.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">On to Cap Haitien, the second largest city in Haiti. You could call the place vibrant or you could call it chaotic...depends on your perspective. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The streets are packed with people, street vendors, cars, trucks, tap-taps and motorcycles. There is not a stop sign, traffic light or traffic sign to be seen and yet the city moves constantly at a frenetic pace as is guided by some unseen force. I can't imagine why there aren't 1,000 car accidents every 15 minutes...but we didn't see any. You know your are getting close to a big city when you stop to buy gas and both station attendants are carrying the pistol-grip shotguns that are so popular in the Dominican Republic.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The city features literally miles of buildings that will remind you of the French Quarter...three stories, wooden doors, wooden windows, lots of balconies...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Trash, trash, trash, everywhere there is trash. We saw two trash trucks in Cap Haitien...one having a huge pile of rubish shoveled into it and the other being escorted through town by the UN...who knows?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We delivered soccer balls, goalie gloves, shoes and more to a group in Cap Haitien. Bob Allen of Warrenton, VA heads up an effort called HANDS - Haiti and Soccer. He collects donated soccer equipment and sends it to Haiti. You can contact him at gkbob at comcast dot net. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We were hustled into a small room and the door quickly shut as if the sight of so many soccer balls might insight a riot or at the least an enthusiastic round of begging.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It had to be tricky to get this baby to Haiti...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The soccer stadium...the orphanage we were soon to visit is located in the hill behind the stadium. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Inside the courtyard of the Kay Anj (Angel House) Orphanage.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is part of a post from Carrie Evans after she visited the Kay Anj orphanage one week after she visited it with our group:</span><br />
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<i style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;">They are beautiful, each and everyone of them. Possibly the healthiest looking Haitian children I've seen these past two weeks. Forty two in all. </i><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><i>Twenty one of them live on the tip top of a mountain covered with cinder block homes, one on top of another. Literally. The neighbors laundry hangs precariously across the twisted barbed wire fence just feet from the children's bedroom windows. There is no green grass and no place to ride a bike. There is no city park or ice cream stand just down the road. There's a three story crooked building and a small cement play yard with a simple and well loved basketball hoop. There is a rude and primitive kitchen with three large burners on a wrought iron frame with no obvious source of fuel. There are four bedrooms, each with bunk-beds, some of them four to a room, sleeping eight children in a space smaller than my bathroom. There is a communal closet where clean clothes are kept and a sewing room off to the side where the girls are learning a trade. All of it clean and neat and impressive amidst the squalor of Cap Haitien. Twenty one lucky kids, a paid "momma" on each floor and the sweetest dispositions imaginable.<o:p></o:p></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><i>The other twenty one are street kids. I don't know what that means besides that they don't live in that crooked house on the tip top of the hill, they live somewhere else. I didn't ask because I don't think my heart could take the answer. I know that among those street kids are some as young as 8 and as old as 15. Do they open the heavy metal gate and have them file past the guards that carry guns in order to keep the other twenty one safe? I don't know. How do they choose which twenty one sleep there and which twenty one sleep nowhere? I just don't know. <o:p></o:p></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><i> I do know that forty two kids were there in that cement play yard today. I know that I saw forty two smiling and cherubic faces. I know that forty two kids climbed on my back and arm wrestled Chris and shot hoops with Jesse. I know that forty two kids got brand new dresses and fancy new shorts. I know that forty two kids received forty two Chick-Fil-A cows and Elmer passed out forty two pieces of gum. And I know that only twenty one children have beds. <o:p></o:p></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><i>Like I said, I'm not quite sure how to process this, especially as my own children are without their momma tonight. But I do know that there is hope in that orphanage, I know that the Harvey's are full of love and God's grace, because they are giving forty two kids a place to be, even if only for a few hours a day. In that place I saw love. I saw happiness. </i></span><i style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;">I saw friendships. </i><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><i> I </i></span><i style="font-size: x-large;">saw hope. I saw family. </i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>The Harvey's live just down the road from me in Haymarket,
VA. I've broken bread with them and shared stories and shed
tears. God willing, in the coming years,
those forty two kids will live just down the road from Pere Bruno in a little
town called Limonade. They have the land, they just need the money
to build. They'll move all together, all forty two of them, into a bigger house
with a bigger yard with better stoves and better rooms. They won't need the armed guards or the big
metal gate. There won't be children
sleeping nowhere or kids called street kids and kids called Kay Anj kids,
they'll all be just that...the Harvey's kids. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Some people ask "What makes a family?". It isn't
so much blood and DNA as much as it is love.
Those twenty one kids and those twenty one kids, they make forty two,
whichever way you shake it, forty two kids and a few mommas. Add in Father
Eustache and Archibald, toss in an American twenty something named Lindsey and
tie them all together with the Harvey's and their love... If I've learned one
thing today, family isn't what I thought it once was, just as home isn't where
the gps sends me at the end of the day.
Because today I found both in a place where I expected to find none.<span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Geraldine and I had a great time together.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">She was very shy...when I spoke to her, she would smile, giggle and bury her head in my shoulder.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">John attracted a crowd...ironic as he has three boys at home.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Kevin was clearly moved by his orphanage village...He had little to say and retired early that night...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Jim's balloons were the perfect distraction needed for us to be able to sneak out with a minimal amount of tears (adults, not the kids).</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">One of my favorite photos...completely untouched. This is exactly what the camera saw. I took just this one image and then put the camera down to cheer them on...Eventually, they got both balloons inflated.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The drive off the mountain had an interesting moment. We came around a bend in the narrow road and there was a tractor obviously broken down in the middle of the road. It wasn't your average tractor is was giant one with tires that were six feet tall. It had to weigh many tons, so pushing it out of the way seemed out of the question. The tractor guys were waving Pere Bruno to drive around the stranded vehicle. The first motioned to the right, but that wasn't an option. There was not guard rail and no shoulder and if we had slipped off the skinny road, we would have plummeted down the hill in a ball of fire. Thank you, no.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So, Pere Bruno opted to try to pass on the left. The first problem was that there was an old telephone pole close to the tractor. We determined that there was at least two or three inches of clearance which brought us to the second problem. The narrow gap we had to shoot had a deep ditch running through it at a 45-degree angle meaning the Land Cruiser was likely to rock back and forth in a tight space which afforded no room for any variance. Pere Bruno navigated the car through without touching either the pole or the tractor prompting John Connolly to say "Pere Bruno you really are a man of faith." The driver behind us hit the pole...or the tractor...or both. Not sure. It was classis Pere Bruno -- calm, steady, unerring...no problem. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Street scene in Cap Haitien. This is fairly typical, but not as crowded as many of the streets we traveled. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Note the Coke and Sprite bottles...served with ice! No Diet Coke or Coke Light as they call it everywhere else but America, but plenty of Coke or Sprite with ice. Ice = Cold. Cold is good. I learned in Haiti that I can live happily without air-conditioning or hot water, but I need cold drinks and ice.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The food was good, but slow...the power was provided by a generator in the men's room. Not near it, IN it...two armed guards greeted us when we arrived...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Before we left Cap Haitian where we visited the Tourist Market. I'm told cruise ships used to stop here. Having recently been on a cruise, I can only imagine my fellow cruisers getting off the ship in Haiti, taking a quick look around and returning immediately to the ship...It just isn't a tourist destination in the traditional sense. So the local merchants sit in the Tourist Market waiting for a handful of Americans to wander through and, no doubt, hoping that some day a thriving tourism industry will return to Haiti. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> The garden fully tilled and ready for the Carrie and company to plant fruit trees and herbs for the clinic. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> These guys were determined to show off their martial arts skills...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Jim had one last balloon and somebody knew it...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> The construction site for the new high school adjacent to the current school...The project requires an additional $130,000...Total cost to build the school is a mere $200,000.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> The playground...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> This is a cotton tree...it started out as a cotton bush, but they grow to tree size in Haiti.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> A tribute to pumpkin soup...a vegetable soup of some variety and delicious.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Carrie, Tony, Kevin, Matt, Renard, Glenn, Jim, Stan, Aisiaha and John.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> We figured in Haiti you get a license plate for "life." If need be, you tie it to your truck.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Edward modelling his Lakers jersey from Mike Tedeschi and a UNC hat from GP.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Sharing some iTunes...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The streets of Quanaminthe...this place seemed wild when we arrived but John called it "almost quaint" after seeing Cap Haitien...couldn't agree more. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The big blue building is a market...there was so much chaos on the way in, I didn't even see it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Doing laundry in the Massacre River...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">When we arrived, Santiago seemed like a dirty, disorganized, unsophisticated gun toting town...when we returned it seemed like a pretty well organized, fairly clean gun-toting town. There are people with guns guarding everything including this restaurant which featured fabulous fettucini carbonara, cold local beer and the Saints/49ers playoff game...Oh, and the hotel had hot water. What more could you ask for?</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9065092652852035558.post-26238699461774098292012-01-19T13:25:00.001-08:002012-01-19T13:25:40.855-08:00VIDEO: ROTARY WELL<iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/T8MRKdbWKq4" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9065092652852035558.post-32745593677958451642012-01-19T13:23:00.001-08:002012-01-19T13:23:14.132-08:00VIDEO: HYMN FROM ANNIVERSARY SERVICE<iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/O3s2Z-bcwK0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9065092652852035558.post-2240277051762241352012-01-19T13:22:00.001-08:002012-01-19T13:22:07.832-08:00VIDEO: RECESS HAND SLAP<iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/WFzKcXDM2I0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9065092652852035558.post-62723832586593866402012-01-19T13:20:00.001-08:002012-01-19T13:20:54.231-08:00VIDEO: FOOD DROP PHAETON<iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/W1QX65tRYLw" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9065092652852035558.post-13269987768191689352012-01-19T13:19:00.001-08:002012-01-19T13:19:50.942-08:00VIDEO: FOOD DROP IN PAULETTE<iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/MB0KC2nSma0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9065092652852035558.post-40219018265556645022012-01-19T13:18:00.001-08:002012-01-19T13:18:26.260-08:00VIDEO: CAP HATIEN<iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/egC-NJbQVAA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9065092652852035558.post-92122639341716015582012-01-19T13:17:00.001-08:002012-01-19T13:17:32.336-08:00VIDEO: QUANAMINTHE, HAITI<iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/hMG4nJYSkQ0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9065092652852035558.post-84475959184925185542012-01-19T13:15:00.001-08:002012-01-19T13:15:15.258-08:00VIDEO: PUERTA DEL SOL<iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/6r8Fmy8Oeks" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9065092652852035558.post-10214560887057158052012-01-19T13:13:00.001-08:002012-01-19T13:13:46.968-08:00VIDEO: KEEP AWAY<iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/L4VZZIrSueg" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9065092652852035558.post-87987025025303483832012-01-19T12:56:00.001-08:002012-01-19T13:12:26.332-08:00AUDIO FILES OF SONGS FROM EARTHQUAKE CHURCH SERVICEThese are short audio clips of two of the hymns sung during the two year anniversary memorial service for the Port-au-Prince earthquake on January 12, 2010. The combination of children and adult voices in haunting and the simple fact that I couldn't understand a word they said seemed to make the impact even larger.
Click on download, then click on the audio file. They are relatively small - 490KB each.
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...and there's more.
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