Wednesday, June 29, 2011

HAITI TRIP INTRODUCTION


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       THE TRIP
    -After the Earthquake Jan. 12, 2010- that mostly destroyed all of Haiti, I signed up to go with Habitat for Humanity. I was just accepted for the team that is leaving in November. I have volunteered with both medical and construction skills. I don't  know when I will know my actual "duty assignments".  We are going to LEOGANE, which is about 30 kilometers / 12  miles  west of the capital , Port au Prince, and considered at the epicenter of the quake. A map follows below .

    LINK to Port au Prince Photos: http://www.fotopedia.com/wiki/Port-au-Prince/photos

                                                                   SPONSOR ME
    -Each team member is asked to ENLIST. SPONSORS , to make a CHARITABLE DONATION to my sponsorship account at HABITAT FOR HUMANITY. The link to my sponsorship  account  with Habitat for Humanity is  located at  Top Right of BLOG,  or use this link:
     http://www.habitat.org/cd/cwp/participant/participant.aspx?pid=93536534
    Sponsors receive a charitable donation tax receipt. AND MY PROFOUND THANKS.

                                                     BENEFITS : WHAT YOU GET
    -THIS IS WHAT I OFFER SPONSORS  & SUBSCRIBERS:  An Amazing Blog  ! where I will share my literary skills, and delight you with accounts of local people I meet, rebuilding efforts, daily routine, weather, housing, food, landscape, and all else I see and experience as the adventure unfolds.  Before the trip I will also post some  enlightening   Haiti information posts and links. Check It Out.
    -All this can be your vicarious experience , without one mosquito bite, or blister on your hands,  hot nights in a sleeping bag, sweating buckets, iodine in your drinking water, or taking malaria and disentary  medications. HOW GREAT IS THAT !

    -On My Blog - I WILL BE ADDING INFORMATION ON HAITI, : Culture, Economics, Government, and of course  the Earthquake, and later Hurricaine  Tomas, that visited the island November 2010.   

    LINK to Hurricaine TOMAS PHOTOS: http://www.wunderground.com/blog/haiticonnexion/comment.html?entrynum=5

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    -I WILL BE  UPDATING  WITH  TRAVEL PHOTOS   and  POSTS  as we meet in Atlanta,  and make our way to  Haiti  on a chartered plane, and do our small part to help the rebuilding effort.

    More PHOTO  and INFORMATION links can be found at the end.

                                                                     SUBSCRIBE
    -You can SUBSCRIBE TO MY BLOG   (Enter your email address at the top and hit   "SUBMIT"  tab at the top right) .  Note: If it won't take your unique email address, let me know : email me your email address ,  with the subject "SUBSCRIBE"   to   SubscribeCarolynsHaitiBlog@Gmail.com  and I'll keep you "posted".
      
    -You can FORWARD / EMail  my Blog  Posts  with the Email icon below  each   post- I would love to go VIRAL.     Blog URL:http://www.vicariousadventuresblog.blogspot.com   or You can find the blog by using the "Search Google Blogs" website search window with my blog name.
                                                                     
                                                                    POST SCRIPT
    - I expect the devastation to be similar to New Orleans- that was virtually unchanged a year after hurricaine Katrina. I expect the conditions ,which were already incredibly destitute, to be difficult to fully comprehend and  even more elusive to convey in writing or a few photos as I share the  unfolding experience with my blog subscribers. What I will also try to grasp is the incredible underlying poverty , and  damage that the years of corruption and exploitation have caused to this island . There are some amazing reasons why the other half of the island, the Dominican Republic is better off...and I hope to engage your interest and show you why you should help. Support my trip. Support the Carter Work Project and Habitat for Humanity. Read the blog. Forward the blog. Open your heart and eyes to our neighbor.

                                                                               PPS:
    -HOW  YOU  CAN  HELP   - Please, CONTRIBUTE     to my  CARTER WORK PROJECT/  HABITAT FOR HUMANITY   sponsorship fund raising account  by   clicking this link:  http://www.habitat.org/cd/cwp/participant/participant.aspx?pid=93536534  OR   use the "SPONSOR ME"  Link at the top right to go to my own   Habitat for Humanity site.        Lets   " do  coffee"   and I'll share my trip photos and dispatches -& YOU can  DONATE the equivalent cost of my "carmel cafe latte" and SUBSCRIBE. Thanks. 

    HAITI MAP -Leogane, about 30 km from Port au Prince on coast

    Leogane is 30 km west along the coast, under the I in Port Au Prince