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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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Well, I'm sitting around at work waiting for the ride home, so I figure it's time for update no. 2... First, something about the temperature here. Last weekend, it got up to about 30 degrees, which is warm, but actually colder than it was in Toronto! It's currently 30 degrees, so the temperature hasn't been too bad at all. Considering my housing doesn't have aircon or a fan, i'm happy about that. It's not nearly as bad as Guyana was in the summer... it's even better than London is, since at least i'm up in the mountains a bit. So, since [View Full Entry]

iwwhites - Ian Whiteside | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: June 14th 2008 | 200 Views | [diary=285958]

Fonkoze branch
Port au Prince
Port au Prince - streel level

Due to the food riots and various travel warnings, I contemplated skipping Haiti right up until about a week before we were scheduled to fly there. In the end though I figured enough time had passed since the riots and I also held on to the belief that things wouldn't be as bad in reality as they were portrayed in the media. This was the case in both Indonesia and Nigeria, and even though it only takes being wrong once to get into some serious trouble, I was prepared to take the chance on it being true again in Haiti. I [View Full Entry]

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Published: August 7th 2008 | 287 Views | [diary=286527]

Daniel lecturing
Haiti coast
A contemplative moment

Well, I decided to write a travel blog because that's what I said I would do... so here is my first one. As you know, I arrived in Haiti last Monday. My flight landed at around 4 pm Port-au-Prince (PAP) time, which is an hour earlier than Toronto time. Altogether, I was travelling for about 14 hours, which isn't as much fun as it sounds (even though I got free drinks in the Miami lounge!). The PAP airport has seen better days. They are upgrading it, sort-of, but is a typical third world airport... no boarding ramp, run down entrance, crumbling [View Full Entry]

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Published: June 6th 2008 | 100 Views | [diary=284531]

Ducks 2
Haiti 1
Haiti 2

Hi so i guess ill write about this past weekend. which was one of my favorite experiences here in Haiti. A couple of us whent with "the brothers orphanage" on a rice feed about an hour out of port-au-prince. Peeople were told to sit in a line as we did prayer and leanrt a bible verse and sang a song after that We handed each person a bag of rice. it was an experience i'll never forget. each person ranged from enfants to grandmothers. After that we traveled back into port-au-prince and delivered more food supplies to other orphanages. ... i [View Full Entry]

JMS - Janice Seaton | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: March 6th 2008 | 83 Views | [diary=253516]


heyy alright so plans for the weekend didnt exaclty go as planned but was def still a pretty good weekend. Myself and alison had hoped on doing the rice feed wiht another orphanage on sat but it ended up being cancelled at the last minute. so we didnt want to waste the day seenig as time here is runnig out :( we came back up the house and decided a bunch fo would "tap tap" up to the baptise mission, it was ltos of fun we whent for lunch..mmm good food, then did some more souvenier shopping then came home and [View Full Entry]

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Published: February 25th 2008 | 73 Views | [diary=250081]


well its been a while since i wrote last so i apolagize for that. ive been kind of lazy and now we only have a few hours wiht one computer for now 11 girls so computer time is less. we have 9 beds in our house and as of tomorw 11 girls....two are sleeping on the balcony This last weekend was pretty mellow, i whent down to the main house on saterday to work with one of my girls ( she is almost walking!), then sunday we all jsut hung around , whent tanning on the roof. dont worry i did [View Full Entry]

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Published: February 20th 2008 | 236 Views | [diary=248126]


By JMS
February 8th 2008
week two Central America Caribbean » Haiti » Petionville
heyy so another week here at GLA is coming to an end, time seems to be flying by. nothing over exciting has happend this week so far. We have learnt the walk between both buildings and have been walking down and up every day for some excersise! and let me tell you climing a mountain every day def is a work out..hehe. were getting to our kids alot better so its funner as they know us more and can be themselves. Plans for teh weekend so far are ummm i forget what we were thinkign fo doing on saterday possibly the [View Full Entry]

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Published: February 8th 2008 | 92 Views | [diary=243996]


Bonswa alrighty so fri alison was feeling a bit ill still so i only took a couple kids in the toddler house. and man was that interesting they were kinda hyped up and one of my girls denise was pciking on her brother :(. after that i whent down to the main house and hung out with some of my babies. my twin boys are hilarious i think they jsut figured out they look alike cause they will stare at eachother for a bit then jsut crack up laughing its really cute!!, for the lsat hour of the work day on [View Full Entry]

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Published: February 3rd 2008 | 112 Views | [diary=242247]

rihanna

alrighty soo i guess nothing over exciting has happend the past two days...lets see weds morning like every monring we hang out with the kids at the toddler house till about noon. its kind of frustrating with them because there at the age where they cna talk but since we dont speak or understand to much of their lanugauge its hard to commincate there has been a few tempertantrums!! however since we are given a particualr group of children we can not spend all are time witht eh oterh kids, we have a play room which the kids are only aloud [View Full Entry]

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Published: February 1st 2008 | 72 Views | [diary=241606]


By JMS
January 30th 2008
jan 29 Central America Caribbean » Haiti » Petionville
Bonjou so the day began rather interesting, kids singing, no power, no water....and a pig being slaughtered! we had hot dogs with lunch? i hope it wasnt that piggy..lol power and water came back on after a little while. after breakfast Me and Ali got to hang out with 12 kids till lunch..just 4 of them at time there between 2 and 5 yers old and then we whent down to the main house for lunch the food isnt that bad. and then we had one babie each at time for just over an hour we sat with them out on [View Full Entry]

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Published: January 30th 2008 | 82 Views | [diary=240878]