Blogs from Belle Anse, Haiti, Central America Caribbean

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So you're probably wondering where I've been. We successfully had our first trip to a little town in the South of Haiti called "Les Cayes" and I have so much to write about. Everything about it was incredible, even the 4 days with no power or wifi. The trip started off with a 4 hour bus ride in a jam packed smaller sized Hampton Jitney basically. I was able to get some sleep seeing as we left HAC around 5:00am in the morning. When we arrived we took a thing called public transportation. Yeah there is public transportation in Haiti. Haitians get around using a simple truck with a bed in the back called a "TapTap" it was definitely an experience to say the least. Let me just say I almost felt as if I were ... read more

Central America Caribbean » Haiti » Belle Anse November 18th 2008

Our time for the clinic in Belle Anse was limited so we had decided to leave directly from the airport and get to Belle Anse that first night. In theory it was possible, but I began to have second thoughts when, even my co-director Guesno Mardy, who generally thinks anything is possible, was a little hesitant. ( He had seen the road I had not). Driving through Port au Prince for the first time is always a shock. So many people, so much happening, tap taps and woman selling food and everything else right beside the road. One of my favorites to see is the walking pharmacies, usually a big bucket or board plastered with pills still in the protected foil but out of the box, to go farther, or maybe, because most people can only ... read more
Tap Tap PaP
street scene Pap
The school in Belle Anse

Central America Caribbean » Haiti » Belle Anse November 14th 2008

Hello, We are all back home now. The last 4 of us made it back from Haiti late last night. The travel blog was a great idea, but it turned out our hotel in Port au Prince did not have it's internet up an running! Other than a few hours every morning we were on the road and working hard everyday so had no time to look for other online options. Being -unplugged was particularly hard on one of our teens! The trip was amazing. I find it hard to find the words to describe how well it went. Awesome, fantastic, wonderful....etc all seem to small to express the experience we had. The whole trip went better than I had imagined it would. There was fewer problems and more fun, even working in the heat and ... read more
Diana Montana and Maggie  doing intakes
3 tifi and yellow umbrella
First day of clinic




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