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Background: The native Arawak Amerindians - who inhabited the island of Hispaniola when it was discovered by Columbus in 1492 - were virtually annihilated by Spanish settlers within 25 years. In the early 17th century, the French established a presence on Hispaniola, and in 1697, Spain ceded to the French the western third of the island - Haiti. The French colony, based on forestry and sugar-related industries, became one of the wealthiest in the Caribbean, but only through the heavy importation of African slaves and considerable environmental degradation. In the late 18th century, Haiti's nearly half million slaves revolted under Toussaint L'OUVERTURE and after a prolonged struggle, became the first black republic to declare its independence in 1804. Haiti has been plagued by political violence for most of its history. It is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.




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We arrived in Port au Prince on the 4th around 12:30. Getting off the plane into the humid heat and walking across the tarmac, several team members were delighted by the temperature which was a really good sign for the rest of the trip. The Haitian band that sits in the entrance to the airport for the passengers played away as we lined up at the passport check point. We all got through without a hitch and into the baggage claim area. I think of this part as "Welcome to Haiti, get ready, it is an intense place" After you have [View Full Entry]

sionfonds - Annie Blackstone | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: November 16th 2008 | 177 Views | [diary=345673]


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, [View Full Entry]

sionfonds - Annie Blackstone | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: November 14th 2008 | 140 Views | [diary=345105]

Diana Montana and Maggie  doing intakes
3 tifi and yellow umbrella
First day of clinic

Wow. I had forgotten what a time warp I live in when volunteering for Hands On Disaster Response. I left Bangladesh when the project completed last April and continued traveling throughout India and South East Asia, before the "call to duty" came again in mid Sept to help out the people in Gonaives, Haiti. 4 hurricanes and tropical storms within a few weeks in late August to early September ravaged the city of 300,000, raising the nearby river to above its banks. It flooded the city and brought more mud than I have ever seen in my life to the streets, [View Full Entry]

travlinfool - Suzi Lee | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: January 4th 2009 | 132 Views | [diary=360004]


Hi Belle Anse is the main site of the medical trip and where we will be creating a clinic. All of the children in the slideshow are in the Sionfonds educational sponsorship program. The green building in the background is our office. Sionfonds has been working in Belle Anse now for 4 years it has always been one of our goals, to bring medical teams to the village and create a clinic. It is so exciting to be taking the first step in fulfilling that goal, in just a few days. The medical team will be staying in a school [View Full Entry]

sionfonds - Annie Blackstone | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: October 31st 2008 | 59 Views | [diary=340354]


Hi Our adventure starts in 5 days. Sionfonds medical trip to Haiti. My hope is that we will be able to post on this blog our experiences, to share with all of the people at home while we are still in Haiti. a. [View Full Entry]

sionfonds - Annie Blackstone | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: October 29th 2008 | 49 Views | [diary=339776]


I finally got an opportunity to get out into the field in Haiti. The medical and veterinary team was scheduled to go out on the 24th, and mustered (lined up) at 6:30 am with all our gear. We waited (on the ramp - very uncomfortable) with our flotation devices on and helmets at the ready until 8:30 when they decided they couldn't get the part they needed for the helicopter to make it safe to operate. So we took all the gear off and went back inside. (Despite the annoyance of the wait and missed opportunity, I still would rather they [View Full Entry]

footeloose - Nancy Foote | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: October 2nd 2008 | 247 Views | [diary=328953]

The line gets longer
A local home at Terre de Negre
4 Haitian policemen

The Kearsarge provided a HUGE amount of assistance in Haiti, with the helicopters lifting more tons of food, water, and relief supplies than I can even imagine. We left there to go to Guantanamo Bay Naval Station in Cuba to get supplies and fuel (try to imagine this: we took on 750,000 gallons of fuel for the ship and another 250,000 gallons for the helicopters!). But we left 3 helicopters, work crews and some US Public Health Service (PHS) people behind to continue working while we were gone for 60 hours. The PHS folks were doing assessments in remote villages of [View Full Entry]

footeloose - Nancy Foote | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: October 2nd 2008 | 156 Views | [diary=328938]

Cooking oil from the US
Stacking the palettes
Supplies for World Food Program

Hurray! It worked. The trick is I have to get up at 0400 and I can load about 6-8 pictures before the Internet gets too slow. So here is the first batch. I have so many visual images I want to share with everyone. It's frustrating not to be able to do more. Just have to rely on my word pictures <smile>. More to follow..... [View Full Entry]

footeloose - Nancy Foote | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: September 17th 2008 | 188 Views | [diary=323804]

Helicopter picks us up after clinic
Disembarking from the LCU
Landing craft leaving the well deck

We're off the coast of Haiti near Port-au-Prince, providing assistance to areas in the north and southeast of the country cut off when the roads washed out in the flooding from the recent hurricanes. Our helicopters are transporting hundreds of thousands of tons of relief supplies (mostly rice, beans, flour and oil) to people who have no food and no water. At the moment, the helicopters from the USS Kearsarge are the only means available in the country of moving these goods. Some areas are so isolated even our helicopters can't reach them. People are getting more and more desperate. There [View Full Entry]

footeloose - Nancy Foote | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: September 14th 2008 | 197 Views | [diary=323275]


Well, I guess I should have written this last week, but what can I say... I didn't. So, here is last weeks blog, written this week. The theme is, I suppose, Port-au-Prince, which, of course, I have not seen much of. Regardless though, I will give it my best effort. First, i'm not sure where I left off on the last one. I think I was still living in Villa Manrese, which was the religious house with the awsome view. I moved out of there two Fridays ago. The director of Fonkoze, Anne Hastings, was going to Paris for the week, [View Full Entry]

iwwhites - Ian Whiteside | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: June 28th 2008 | 269 Views | [diary=292646]

Deck next to Anne's
Patio and view
View of PAP on way to work