I HAVE ADDED ENOUGH TO THE BLOG THAT IT NOW HAS SEVERAL PAGES. THIS MEANS MY GREAT NEW HAITI PHOTOS I JUST POSTED AND OTHER PRIOR POSTS ARE NOW ARCHIVED .
TO GET STARTED, AND TO GET TO THE BLOG FROM A NEW POST EMAIL ALERT, YOU CAN CLICK ON THE ALERT TITLE AND IT TAKES YOU TO THE FULL BLOG SITE.
HOWEVER, YOU STILL HAVE TO NAVIGATE THE BLOG. YOU CAN GO TO " SEARCH THE OTHER POSTS" ON THE RIGHT SIDE BAR, ...SUCH AS "HAITI ARRIVAL" FOR THE FIRST GROUP OF PHOTOS AND SLIDE SHOW. ONCE YOU PULL UP A PRIOR POST, YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO SCROLL AROUND ON THE REST OF THAT PAGE.
Saturday, December 10, 2011
Thursday, December 8, 2011
FIRST PHOTOS FROM HAITI ARRIVAL
Arrival November 5 in Atlanta, we had registration, picked up supplies including tool bags, hard hats, schedules, etc and tee shirts. Dinner was great with President and Mrs Carter wandering in the crowd and later speaking. We of course had other speakers from Habitat and entertainment by the Freedom singers . Early AM we took buses to the air port where my group boarded the Delta habitat plane, President Carter mingled with volunteers on the plane then we settled in for a fabulous ride and service. On arrival in Haiti, the Carters had a large welcome committee and photos, then we got to get off . Secret service was of course with us all the way. Our luggage somehow got on buses and we took two hours to make it through Port au Prince to the Camp site.
We are staying at a town called Christianville, established as part of a mission to Haiti, in a campsite already being used by an Irish group, called HAVEN, also already serving in Haiti. Enroute we saw rubble, crumbled homes, intact buildings, and lots of water in little canals, streams and running everywhere. We saw women doing laundry in the river, men bathing in the town waterways, and everywhere people carrying some form of water container, usually on their head, from wells that are scattered along the streets. Buses are loaded to the brim, and colorful. They are called "tappas". When not distracted by the shacks and endless tents, the distant hills , mountains and foliage is very pretty.
After some real highway, the roads got narrower and unpaved and crowded as we neared camp. Stone walls and barbed wire ensured security. First look at camp was endless tents of every shape and size. They were still erecting some, finding cots and mosquito nets, all while we located our numbered tent ,and tried to unpack. Of course that meant first finding your luggage . The loudspeaker announced when you could come look for it in groups. Then you had to drag it to your tent on the gravel and rock camp ground.
By the time you unpacked, got your cot to stay up, figured out how to hang the net,...daylight was fading and it was time to explore the camp and find dinner.
We usually had 3-4 entrees, multiple veggies, yogurt, water, desert, and were VERY WELL FED by the Irish cooks.
The first night was another talk by President carter, and local dancers and singers . Showers stayed open late, and we tried to sleep . Out tent slept 14, and we actually had a large fan at each end of the tent. I cant say you could actually feel a breeze, but it eventually got a bit less hot before morning. Somehow we woke in time to use the wash stations, find clothes, and get to breakfast. Buses loaded and took us to the work site. we had tools, hardhats, gloves, long sleeve shirts, water, mosquito repellent, sunscreen, and everything we thought we might need , The next day we learned to bring short sleeve attire, water was provided at the site, and we did not have enough tools . No Home Depot, so you make do.
Ill give a work site blog next. For now I just wanted to get this started and try to upload some photos Hope it works. The slide show has captions and worked on my preview.
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Link to project VIDEO from Carter Work Project site--RESEND ( hopefully without errors this time) click here also to go to BLOG
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