Blogs from Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Central America Caribbean - page 9

May 21 and 22 - first road trip with SA truck, driver and translator. We delivered mattresses to both Carrefour and Caseau. Also, delivered Numana to Carrefour. Each box contains about 220 nutritionally enhanced rice meals. Delivered 60 mattresses and 30 boxes of Numana to Carrefour to be distributed among vulnerable in the community. Also delivered 18 boxes of Numana to the Caseau community. This was the first trip outside PaP. You will note that in subsequent trips, I will have more pics and descriptions of the damage all along the routes I travel. Damage to infrastructure is severe. In many places, what’s left of roads are simply scraped aside and work is being done to rebuild them. Damage in PaP is estimated to be in the 65% range, but damage throughout the rural areas is ... read more

The camp manager has set up a committee system - members elected for 3 month term. They are responsible for security within the camp area and interfacing with the SA personnel serving the camp. They take this very seriously - meeting me and extending warm greetings to their camp. They toured through the camp with the Camp Manager and myself and seemed genuinely proud of their participation to make camp life better. This committe participated with SA personnel in doing a census of the residents. UPS donated a tracking system, which was modified to collect important data. This has been an important tool. Initial census was taken, identifying a head of household, and all pertinent information collected. Bar coded cards were produced for the head of household and are used for various distributions, such as food. ... read more

Il y a maintenant 3 ans, je suis allée séjourner en Asie pendant presque 2 mois. (Mes périples sont justement dans ce blogue dans les entrées précédentes). Après mon voyage je me suis dit que je ne pouvais me passer de voyager dans ma vie et que ça devait éventuellement faire partie de mon mode de vie, donc de mon travail. Je me suis dit que j'aimais voyager, j'aimais les gens, j'aimais mon pays et j'aimais aider et sentir que je peux faire une différence. Je me suis alors décidée de travailler pour le ministère des Affaires étrangères et du Commerce International du Canada en tant que diplomate dans nos ambassades à l'étranger pour aider les Canadiens et représenter mon pays en voyageant partout à travers le monde. J'ai travaillé très fort, j'ai bûché, j'ai eu ... read more

pictures of water at the camp. the first is a woman drawing water by the bucket. SA trying to discourage since water is not good...but they use it for washing clothes. other pics are water supplied daily by trucks. it is absolutely amazing to me how clean everyone is. they wash themselves daily under the most primitive of conditions. women are scrubbing clothes in a pan of water and draping them here and there to dry. everyone especially children as you will see later on when i post pictures of school children try so hard to be neat and clean. I am currently washing my things out in the bathroom sink and really appreciate the monumental effort they are making.... read more

Staff at DHQ. Some members are Incident Commander, Demaris from Germany; Finance & Admin, Henk from Czechoslovakia; Logistics, Pearce from LA; Camp Coordinator, Brad from Austrailia, various local officers and me as ESC Emotional and Spiritual Care and PIO Public Information Officer.... read more