tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79051885602964441242024-03-13T11:09:33.312-07:00Portzers in HaitiAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12185816966308410346noreply@blogger.comBlogger41125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7905188560296444124.post-46505947661947787152013-10-27T05:24:00.004-07:002013-10-27T05:24:59.958-07:00Have we accomplished anything?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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When we agreed to come to Haiti for FHM, we knew we were to be here only temporarily. We were on location to help out until a decision could be made on the next guesthouse manager. <br />
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As I write this, the decision making process is still in progress. We are orienting another interim manager over the weekend. He will work at least for November and December.<br />
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The good news is that our 40 pages or so of guesthouse manager notes should make life easier for anyone new to running a guesthouse in Haiti.<br />
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A bit of reflection on our time here - <br />
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<li>We've learned a lot about ourselves and how we personally and as a couple have been able to respond in a situation like this. Yes, we're still married.</li>
<li>It's been rewarding as well as frustrating to figure out the "systems." We have enjoyed the challenge. It's been immensely interesting to get to know Leogane, the good, the improving, and the imponderables. We would have to live here a long time to understand more, to even know the questions to ask.</li>
<li>We've enjoyed getting to know staff members, Yvette and Richard particularly. We've met and interacted with many others, although getting to know them less well. It has been a special privilege to develop relationships with local people.</li>
<li>We have also met quite a number of interesting Americans, some just here for a week, others here for longer term. It's a treasure trove of people dedicated to helping Haiti.</li>
<li>We had a very long list of projects for Kathy, some expecting analysis which first required our understanding of how things worked. Other projects were repairs that Jeff did or we asked others to do.<br /><br />Many projects we added ourselves because we saw they needed to be done. And some we added to "entertain" ourselves, to pass the time well. <br /><br />We've actually done everything on our list, close to 60 small and larger projects, so that feels good. I think the guesthouse is in better shape physically than when we arrived.</li>
<li>We haven't read all the books we brought, which is a good thing, because it means we didn't have a lot of spare time to fill.</li>
<li>We have seen many beautiful sites, some of them right here at the guesthouse. Haiti is truly a beautiful place.</li>
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challenge. And also to serve.'</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We still believe in the work of FHM, to collaborate with local partners to bring better health care to Haiti, particularly cervical cancer prevention and safer motherhood. </span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnKzk-00TSTUO_7VYcn0Oxk6NqhjEK-qPuSey6j0A9qXLwaRs1JuY9Gu9mQQoRZRKE2ubfgRht7ScmbLUTmcWA-NB-L8Zd4_9R4K2nVCmbyk9IN_ivM8zOU7ZVfDGF_SHsBwJ1dRJKUAgV/s1600/another+sunset.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="187" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnKzk-00TSTUO_7VYcn0Oxk6NqhjEK-qPuSey6j0A9qXLwaRs1JuY9Gu9mQQoRZRKE2ubfgRht7ScmbLUTmcWA-NB-L8Zd4_9R4K2nVCmbyk9IN_ivM8zOU7ZVfDGF_SHsBwJ1dRJKUAgV/s320/another+sunset.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">It would have been especially interesting to have been here for the start of construction on the Women's Clinic in the Fondwa mountains and the Surgical Center here on the coastal plain. But we knew that these were probably not going to happen while we were here.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">But, we have great hopes for all that is planned. We have been pleased at all the new development made since the earthquake. And we hope that Haiti keeps being Haiti.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">So, laughing with the pleasure of going home, and with wet eyes at having to leave all we've gotten to know here, we say good bye.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12185816966308410346noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7905188560296444124.post-44667030381764352142013-10-26T06:15:00.001-07:002013-10-26T12:22:02.992-07:00Better use for styrofoam<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Many of you know Dale and Ingram from their days at CODEP. I first met them there and had been interested in visiting their new site. On Friday, they spent time with us at Christianville, where they now work.</div>
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Christianville is famous for its goats, chickens, and fish (a church in our neighborhood in Apex <a href="http://www.saintandrew.org/orgs/haiti_goat.html" target="_blank">sponsors some of the goat farming</a>). Most of the eggs, meat and fish are used to feed the many school children the mission supports.</div>
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Interestingly, we met a volunteer at the site from Apex who works with <a href="http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/ncsuhaitigoatproject/NCSUHaitiGoatProjectHome.htm" target="_blank">NC State's goat project</a>. He was in town working on breeding. If you compare the size of the goats below to the photos we usually post, you'll note that the goats at Christianville are HUGE.</div>
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The goats come when their Haitian master calls, "Goat, goat!" No, that is not Kreyol.</div>
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Local homeowners are being encouraged to start a small fish pond </div>
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Christianville is an innovative place, from how they are working to help Haiti to the many partnerships they have in place.</div>
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Maringa tree leaves are being fed to the fish</div>
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University of Florida Lab, now being expanded</div>
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New culinary school, almost completed</div>
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One of two guests houses, this one where Jimmy Carter stayed </div>
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The sole remaining classroom from the 2010 earthquake,</div>
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What we found most intriguing at Christianville is all the construction that Dale is supervising, building new earthquake- and wind-resistant buildings out of wired styrofoam. The construction technique is called SCIP, structured concrete integrated panel construction.</div>
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The buildings are lightweight, so if they do collapse in a storm or other disturbance, they won't hurt anyone. The structure above was built in one day. They're cheaper to build than concrete block buildings, too.</div>
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Another projects that Jeff has been making slow progress on during our stay in Haiti is getting engaged with <a href="http://www.livingwatersfortheworld.org/index.php" target="_blank">Living Waters for the World</a>.<br />
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This is a Prebyterian Church-based organization that partners with US churches and local operating groups mostly in Latin America to produce clean water for their communities.<br />
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Usually a US church picks a Haitian organization that wants to build and run a clean water facility. The church gets training for its members at "Living Water U" and then sends them as a mission team to Haiti to train the local partners.<br />
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In FHM's case, donors have already given FHM money to build a clean water facility for the community and the <a href="http://familyhm.org/leogane-family-health-center/overall-plan" target="_blank">Leogane Family Health Center</a>.</div>
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So far, FHM has dug a well. This wasn't entirely straightforward - a second well had to be dug before reasonably clean water was reached. And one of the projects that Jeff has done while at the guesthouse is cleaning out faucets that collected small rocks and sand when the well water wasn't very clear.</div>
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FHM then approached Living Waters to get on their list for an installation. Because we're not fitting their usual model, and because their personnel in Haiti has been changing, it's taken us a while to get connected.</div>
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However, this week, a Living Waters staff member came by to test the water from our well, and we're hoping to get the results on Friday.</div>
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Then we'll have to get a building constructed to house the water project. </div>
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Currently we buy water for the guesthouse at 30 gourdes per 5-gallon container, or about 75 cents, delivered by a water truck that fills our 14 containers every 10 days. So that's the price to beat.</div>
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Living Waters estimates that an initiating partner needs about $25,000 to construct and equip the water treatment building, train people in the US, travel to Haiti to train the local operating partner, maintain the equipment, and pay two Haitian technicians to run the facility.</div>
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Jeff has been looking over Apex UMC electricity bills since we've been here, with the objective of understanding how the church can manage usage and costs even better.<br />
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So it was natural on Wednesday for him to be "talking kilowatts" when we visited EDH (Electricité d’Haïti).<br />
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Yes, we are not yet on the grid at the guesthouse and wanted to figure out how much it will cost to get connected, and of course, how much after we're hooked up. <br />
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The idea is that could charge the batteries with EDH rather than diesel via the generator.<br />
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The guesthouse uses 1200 kilowatt hours per month, as compared to the Apex UMC office which uses 1600 kilowatt hours per month in the winter, running many more lights and computers.<br />
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Electricity is four times as expensive here as our residential rate in Apex, which is not the cheapest place in the US to buy power. Haitians pay 47 cents per kilowatt hour compared to our 11.<br />
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We had heard it would cost $6000-7000 US to connect to EDH, so even though diesel is much more expensive, at $1.10 a kilowatt hour as compared to EDH at $.47, it could take a long time to justify the expense of paying for the poles and the hook up.<br />
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Why is electricity so expensive? A little research tells some of the story:<br />
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<li>According to some pre-earthquake numbers that we suspect are still quite accurate, EDH has the power producing capacity of 270 megwatts. </li>
<li>The demand is more like 550 megawatts, and some people estimate that EDH only produces about half its capacity because of maintenance outages at its old plants. (This means that those who are connected to the grid get power only part of the day.)</li>
<li>Haiti has 10.17 million people and 4 state-run plants, with most of their power produced by burning diesel or other fossil fuel. Their one hydroplant can operate only during the rainy season.</li>
<li>For comparison, North Carolina with 9.753 million citizens has 131 power plants, and production capacity of almost 30,000 megawatts. Shearon Harris, near our house, produces over 900 megawatts. </li>
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We went to the EDH office in Leogane, a 20-minute walk into town, to find out the process and how to get an exact price for installation. <br />
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The woman who helped us talked to Jeff in French, to me in Kreyol, and eventually a bit in English to us both. She never lost her patience.<br />
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After explaining a few things, including the fact that they had no rate cards or other handouts that she could give us, she searched through her wallet for several minutes.<br />
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The next thing we knew, she had found a business card and made a phone call. A few minutes later, a private contractor came to the EDH office and picked us up, drove us back to the guesthouse, and looked at our situation. <br />
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He spoke to us in English, making it all so much easier. He said he'd send us an estimate for connecting us to EDH in the evening's email. Then he got to work with his GPS to measure the distance to the poles out at the nearest intersection.<br />
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It turns out the process here is for a private contractor to apply for the electricity connection, put up the poles, and then get EDH to do their inspection and sell the meter to the new customer.<br />
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It's not quite the same as the US, but so far it's been friendly and efficient.<br />
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Tuesday was a lucky day. It rained during the afternoon and brought most of us inside. People were buzzing around the guesthouse, and we got a lot done.<br />
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We are pleased that the frog infestation didn't reappear with the heavy rain, although there were quite a few jokes from staff about the aptly named "krapo." And they were noisy again last night, even though we couldn't see them. <br />
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Junior, our gardener, cleaned all the light fixtures inside the house, and on the porch, but first he enjoyed modeling the new mop Jeff had purchased earlier.<br />
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We needed the new mop to clean up the water that came pouring in the front door during the rain storm. </div>
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Two electricians, volunteers with Building Goodness Foundation, were loaned to us for the day. Lucky for us, the job they were supposed to be working on was already finished.<br />
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We traded lunch for all kinds of electrical work which they did amazingly quickly. They also had loads of tools and supplies with them which really helps!<br />
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Keith (left) and Shane (right) tightened and cleaned up the batteries, and made some recommendations on how to extend the battery life.<br />
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Then they went around the house fixing outlets and switches that were showing wear. They even hung our new towel bars - all eight of them, no easy feat in our harder-than-plaster walls.<br />
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And they promised that after going into town later this week, they'd put an actual light switch in the generator house -- a big improvement on the current system of touching bare wires and getting sparks. They're checking out a cranky security light, too. Fortunately for us, both electricians are staying at the guesthouse until Saturday morning.<br />
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We're looking forward to what they have to say about our water pressure pump and bladder. We hear there is another volunteer coming on Friday who is a pump expert. Exciting times if you're a guesthouse manager.<br />
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Having Keith and Shane here freed Jeff up to install the various artwork that had been accumulating. Michael Anello, also of Building Goodness, had some of his local staff make stretcher frames for us. Yup, they have tools, too.<br />
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You may recognize this painting as the companion piece to the painting that Bob and Claudia Lempp bought for us a couple of weeks ago.</div>
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In addition to all the hammering, Yvette was chopping away in the kitchen, a friendly counterpoint. Another lucky thing is having her as cook.</div>
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It's fun getting everything fixed up for the next guesthouse manager.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12185816966308410346noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7905188560296444124.post-55993848467309330092013-10-22T04:23:00.000-07:002013-10-22T04:25:39.865-07:00List makingWe've been thinking about what's next for us, as our last 10 days in Haiti are in front of us. <br />
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We've made plans for our exit next Wednesday to Port-au-Prince, and on Thursday to the airport, and we have fun plans for this Friday night with a Building Goodness team.<br />
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We also have some guests coming this week, so we have some more hosting to do. And we're working on some last projects, now that we've borrowed some tools.<br />
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But every night, as we sit in the salon, waiting for the generator to get turned on before we go to bed, we end up talking about what's going to happen when we get home. <br />
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We wonder how we will adjust to being back, and what we want to do next. <br />
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Aunt Emily's memorial service in Nashua, NH, will give us a chance right away to visit my dad in Pleasant Valley, NY. Thanksgiving and Christmas will follow close behind.<br />
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We're looking forward to more volunteer work with Fiesta Cristiana and resuming bagpipe band activities.<br />
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But those activities will only allow us to put off the bigger questions of next careers until maybe January.<br />
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Jeff keeps mentioning the <em>Half Time</em> book by Bob Buford that he read a while back on Lance Youngquist's recommendation. Buford suggests these questions - which look to me to be good ones no matter what stage of life:<br />
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<li>What am I really good at? </li>
<li>What do I want to do? </li>
<li>What is most important to me? </li>
<li>What do I want to be remembered for? </li>
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This is a pretty challenging list, and I would add yet another question - What do we know about ourselves that we need to apply in the next situation?<br />
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When we first got here, we made a list of all the projects we needed to work on for the sake of FHM. We were pleased that the list was so long, over 50 items, because we had been worried that we wouldn't have enough to do here.<br />
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So still in the list making mode, we're making more lists, some of them only mental, others written down for future thinking.<br />
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We're listing what we've learned about ourselves, what we've missed from home, what we will miss when we get back to Apex, what we found out we don't need, what we need more of as we move forward. Even to have time and energy to make such lists is a privilege.<br />
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I was reading this morning that we as Americans not only have "freedom from" but also "freedom for." <br />
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The latter may be our biggest blessing as we look forward to the next chapter. <br />
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We hope many of you will offer us advice and counsel as we search out the next adventure, the next big challenge, the next opportunity to serve, the next chance to explore the world.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12185816966308410346noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7905188560296444124.post-8739631538188990662013-10-21T04:44:00.003-07:002013-10-21T05:44:57.988-07:00Multiple views of good intentions<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Jeff and I both just read <em>More Than Good Intentions: Improving the Ways the World's Poor Borrow, Save, Farm, Learn, and Stay Healthy </em>by Dean Karlan and Jacob Appel. It's a very readable book by two behavioral economists. </div>
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Karlan and Appel believe that good intentions are not enough. They are very interested to know what poverty-fighting strategies work and why. Then they can recommend reproducing those approaches in different places around the world. <br />
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The book tells about a number of their program evaluations done to help non-government organizations like FHM look at their success (or lack thereof).<br />
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Their argument for rigorous evaluation is compelling, because so often, things are not what they seem. <br />
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It's hard to tell what is working, and what we're really seeing versus what we want to see or what others want us to see. There is also the issue of what we do not see, or see but not realize we're seeing.<br />
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One of the most common solutions to poverty amelioration is education. So, I've enjoyed the intellectural exercise of applying Karlan's and Appel's ideas to thinking about measuring the effectiveness of the new Fondwa school. <br />
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If Karlan and Appel were in Fondwa, they would want to look at test scores from the pre-earthquake school in the old (unfinished) building, as well as scores from the years since the earthquake in the temporary wooden shelters, and then new scores at the end of this school year, the first year in the new building.</div>
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Maybe they would want to record heights, weights, and hemoglobin counts at the beginning and then at the end of this school year, to see if being in the new building has helped the children be healthier. </div>
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Because they'd have to have a control group, and would also need to figure out whether there are other factors influencing the quality of the education (are the teachers properly prepared? Is the Haitian education system measuring the right goals in its end-of-year exams? etc. etc.), the evaluation design would be complicated.</div>
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And given the wide variety of "career paths" Fondwa students take after leaving school, the questions we need to ask about "quality of life" are quite varied. </div>
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How do we compare what happens to the young woman who marries at 16 and who has three children by age 20 to another student who goes on to Port-au-Prince and university? I think it's possible that the first student could in the end benefit more from school than the second, depending on how the years roll out.</div>
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The two economists would be happy to know that on our second visit to the school, students were receiving antiparasitics. Giving out free deworming medicines is one of Karlan's and Appel's top seven recommendations for improving the lives of people who are poor. That's being done at the Fondwa school.</div>
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All this thinking brings me to a somewhat funny story. If you read our post about <a href="http://portzersinhaiti.blogspot.com/2013/10/most-exciting-day-so-far.html" target="_blank">the new Fondwa school's opening</a>, you know that the photo at the beginnng of this post is the new Fondwa school building from the front courtyard.<br />
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A few days after that photo, we were back in Fondwa, looking down into the valley from a new vantage point,. This is what we saw:<br />
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After a few seconds, we realized we were looking at the roof of the new school. (Yes, it's pretty obvious to you, dear reader, given the way I've shown you the photos.) </div>
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When you live in a steep mountain valley, the color of your roof matters. So many people can see it from afar. And the color of the school roof is "Fondwa blue," the color of Fondwa school uniforms. It was carefully chosen - oversized "school spirit."</div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12185816966308410346noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7905188560296444124.post-71059334661302658232013-10-20T15:13:00.000-07:002013-10-20T15:30:59.070-07:00A bit of paradiseOn Kathy's recommendation, Jeff and I went to Ile a Vache this weekend. It's really a bit of paradise, just off the southern coast of Haiti. So this post will be mostly photos.<br />
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The hardest part was getting there. We took a bus to Les Cayes from the Leogane bus station, and then a boat to the island. Yes, it's the largest island off the south coast of Haiti on the bottom left of the map above, and no, it's not cow-shaped that we could tell. </div>
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We got a "special delivery" to the island. </div>
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Most everyone else was sailing, fishing we think.</div>
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Below - Unloading the boat. You can also get to the island by helo. You can guess why they rushed us over, to avoid any rough seas.</div>
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Greeted with a rum punch, of course.</div>
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It's the 57th best beach in the world, so they say (Check out <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2013/05/28/travel/100-best-beaches/index.html" target="_blank">CNN's list</a>). <br />
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The only cow-themed item we saw - a chair in our room.</div>
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Another shot of the beach. The water was warm and clear and a beautiful pale blue.</div>
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Sunset the first night.</div>
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Sunset the second night.</div>
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The moon setting one morning.</div>
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The view from one of our hill climbs.</div>
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We stayed in of of those orange-roofed houses, right on the beach.</div>
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There was a cave along the beach along this peninsula.</div>
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Can you see it? There's a photo from the inside on the Ile-a-Vache <a href="http://www.ile-a-vache.com/" target="_blank">website</a>.</div>
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One of the sights on the way to climbing the opposite hill - a handmade boat.</div>
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Took this photo for Sandey - thought she'd like the bridle.</div>
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View from the hilltop.</div>
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Lots of palms and blue sky.</div>
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This lake was a ways away, as was Port Morgan, where the pirate Henry Morgan is said to have stayed. </div>
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Henry's ship?? For you, Jeremy.</div>
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We slipped and slid down the hill back to the bay as it had rained, creating an amazing double rainbow.</div>
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A weekend filled with amazing natural beauty.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12185816966308410346noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7905188560296444124.post-48861717297521903972013-10-18T03:24:00.001-07:002013-10-18T03:26:57.586-07:00Finding the strength to keep goingJeff and I are volunteering in Haiti for just 47 days. Yes, we're counting. We have less than two weeks to go before we leave for the US.<br />
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Being a "short timer" is making me appreciate even more the people who are here to stay in Haiti. And I wonder how they keep going.<br />
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The people in the photo above are all longtime, dedicated servants. <br />
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Jamalyn (above left) lived in Haiti for two years beginning in 2003, and has been coming back ever since. She has two small children and a big job in a church in Indianapolis. Surely it would be easier to let someone else lead teams. But here she is, in Fondwa again this week, with a big smile on her face as her latest group of 22 experiences Haiti. She shows amazing fortitude.<br />
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Rich (above middle) has been coming to Haiti since the late 80's. Over the years, the organization he founded, <a href="http://www.piphaiti.org/Home_Page.html" target="_blank">Partners in Progress,</a> has tried a variety of approaches, in Fondwa, and elsewhere in Haiti. I'm sure he's had plenty of ups and downs, but still his idealism, his determination and his hope shine through. He keeps on going, planning, organizing, contributing what he can.<br />
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When I contemplate Kathy (above right) and her work with her husband David and <a href="http://familyhm.org/" target="_blank">Family Health Ministri</a>es, I know about many of the valleys as well as the mountain tops. Kathy and David have had many successes, but all at a price. When they're in those valleys, they don't lose faith, but they keep trying to find solutions. <br />
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Over the years, Kathy has continued to support Haitian partners through times of wonderful achievement and moments of head shaking. I am guessing that she has been frustrated and discouraged as many times as she have been delighted. How does she do it? Why does she do it? Will she be able to keep on doing it?<br />
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Luke 5 tells the story of Jesus at the Sea of Galilee, calling his disciples to be "fishers of men." Usually we focus on the second part of the story, when they leave everything, and follow Jesus. I think it's also useful to think about the earlier part where Jesus says to Simon, "Put out into deep water, and let down the nets for a catch."<br />
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Simon answered, "Master, we've worked hard all night and haven't caught anything. But because you say so, I will let down the nets."<br />
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Simon is already tired, probably exhausted. He and his fellow workers had already worked as hard as they knew how, all night along, without catching a thing. Surely they were ready for a break from their physical toil and from what must have been a discouraging time. And they do not really know this consultant Jesus. Is he a fishing expert? What could he possibly know that they don't?<br />
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But somehow, when they take heart and find the strength to let down their nets again, they are hugely rewarded. They caught so many fish that their nets began to break and they had to call for help. They were in new trouble, because their boats were beginning to sink from the weight of so many fish.<br />
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We can't tell from Luke's description how forcefully or authoritatively Jesus told them to go back out to fish some more. We know that Jesus and the men who became his disciples were early in their relationship. They hadn't had time to build up a deep and trusting friendship. Jesus may have even spoken softly, perhaps quite casually, in a suggestive tone.<br />
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We might also note that Jesus didn't tell the the fishermen to stay close to shore where getting back again would have been easy. He directs them to deep water, where they could have encountered wind, heavy seas or even a fierce storm.<br />
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These men chose to listen, and then to follow the counsel they'd been given. They go out far enough to be in dangerous waters. They leave in spite of their fatigue and with near certainty that the counterintuitive advice from Jesus is going to be faulty, a waste of time and energy and potentially, of valuable resources. They find enough strength to have enough hope.<br />
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As I think of Jamalyn and Rich and Kathy, I have prayers for them as they also keeping letting down their nets. May they find enough strength to keep going. May they know when to call for assistance. May they find partners in nearby "boats" to help them. And may they and their companions be "astonished" at their "catch."<br />
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Jeff and I don't feel as we've been in deep waters. We have been living in a lovely facility here at the FHM guesthouse, with wonderful staff caring for us daily. Yes, we've had many challenges and no, it hasn't all been fun. We have had to do some things we really didn't enjoy doing, but we haven't been exhausted by anything.<br />
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At this point, we're not sure it's our role to venture out in the boat. But we know we can make a contribution here on shore, repairing the nets, caulking the boat, and grilling the fish for supper. <br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12185816966308410346noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7905188560296444124.post-81485686712869128912013-10-17T06:21:00.001-07:002013-10-17T06:24:51.621-07:00Sometimes you need to squint a little<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Squinting a little, to blur the focus and see the big picture is often a good idea. <br />
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Here in Haiti, it helps me to enjoy the beautiful natural scenery and to ignore the less savory parts of the landscape. It's a strategy that I need to remember to use every day.<br />
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Here's an example. Our new gardener, Junior, wanted to get the new wheelbarrow reinforced before he started using it. And he had no way to get the wheelbarrow to the welder to attach rebar to the edge as he thought we should do. <br />
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We could have been dismayed that Junior was not satisfied with the new tools Kathy had just purchased for him. Or we could squint. Squinting helps me celebrate his forward thinking and ingenuity.<br />
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Here he is, first contemplating the problem, taking a shot at it, and then trying again.<br />
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It seems to be working!</div>
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We walked by a voodoo establishment this morning. The artistry was quite amazing. But I needed to squint past the flaking paint to really enjoy it.</div>
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How about the very large billboard across the street from the guesthouse. Is it incredibly ugly, staining the neighborhood? Or is it showing business progress in Haiti? </div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">If you look closely, you can see a number of young people hanging out the back of a crowded taptap. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">How can they be content with where they are? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">You can see the limits of the FHM property in this (old) Google Earth shot, with the guesthouse corner in the shadow of the airplane wing. Look for the tan, trapizoidal outline around the property, with the wide road, Route National #2, as the boundary on the left side.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Number the corner in the lower left as Corner #1. This is where the guesthouse now stands.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Lower right is Corner #2. Upper right is Corner #3 </span><span style="font-size: small;">and the upper left w</span><span style="font-size: small;">here the shadow and the corner of the FHM property </span><span style="font-size: small;">and the road all come together is Corner #4.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The Carrefour (crossroads) Deviation Cassange, part of our address here, is the dominant intersection </span><span style="font-size: small;">on the left side of the photo.</span></div>
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It hadn't rained, so it was fairly easy to walk without getting our feet wet. Over 50 animals were grazing, mostly dairy cows, a few horses and several calves and foals. <br />
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The guesthouse has mountains on two sides. The view above is between the guesthouse, Corner #1, and Corner #2.<br />
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The photo below is looking back towards Corner #1 from Corner #2<br />
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As we continued our walk, we looked from Corner #2 to Corner #4, across the long diagonal of the 10 acres.</div>
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Looking back towards Corner #1 from Corner #3, another long diagonal across the trapezoid.</div>
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Along the fence line between Corner #3 and Corner #4, there are many banana trees. This is the property line that we share with Yoleine Gateau of M' Petit Village.</div>
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Not sure this was the type of mother and child that the Walmers envisioned when they bought this property for a women's and children's health care center</div>
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Rounding the last side of the property, along the street, with cleome in the foreground.</div>
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By the time we got back to the guesthouse, it was 7 am. The early morning light had faded and the sun was making its presence known.</div>
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We've looked at clouds from both sides now<br />
From up and down, and still somehow<br />
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To get there from Leogane, we have to travel a steep and twisty road up and then back down the mountains. The views are spectacular getting there.<br />
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Instead of going shopping for crafts, Jeff and Nicole Larrier and I went wandering. We heard noise, peeked in through a fence, and were gestured inside.<br />
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Finally, the beautiful Cvadier Plage Hotel, a bit of heaven. If you look closely, you can see Jeff bringing me coffee.</div>
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Those of you who know her know that she's quite stoic. But we saw more smiles today than any of us can remember. </div>
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Because - the new Fondwa school is open, almost complete, and it's wonderful. It's roomy, has windows with great views, with lots of new furniture, some of it still being delivered as we watched.</div>
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Gorgeous wood doors (downstairs they are metal)</div>
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It's taken years of hard work, diligent fundraising, lots of patience, but it's here - providing schooling from over 600 Fondwa children, ages preschool through Philo and Reto - grades 12 and 13. </div>
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You don't need to mop the floors too frequently in rooms where noone has been, and Jeff and I don't eat enough to keep our cook busy.<br />
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Having 17 guests for lunch is the most fun we've had in a while!<br />
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The group is the FHM annual October medical team and includes many people from<u> </u><a href="http://westpreschurch.org/blogs" target="_blank">Westminister Presbyterian Church</a>. They are blogging and tweeting and posting on Facebook, so you may be following them already. They have been working at the <a href="http://familyhm.org/our-work/blanchard-clinic" target="_blank">Blanchard Clinic</a> this week, and are on their way for a bit of R&R at a Jakmel Hotel, the <a href="http://www.hotelcyvadier.com/" target="_blank">Cyvadier Plage</a>.<br />
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I'm looking forward to seeing old acquaintances from back in 2009. If I remember correctly, I worked with this group at the only public health clinic FHM ever had upstairs in Delson Merisier's Ob/Gyn clinic building. The second floor of what was then a joint FHM- Merisier facility collapsed in the January 2010 earthquake.<br />
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Yvette even baked a cake for our Friday luncheon. Good old Duncan Hines with a Haitian flare - marachino cherries and raisins in the bottom of the pan for decor. Yvette's sister came in from Port-au-Prince to help - it's a lot of work cooking for this many people.<br />
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<li>Some things DO eventually happen - Valerio Canez came at last to service the generator. It's supposed to be serviced every 300 hours. Jeff has been calling them and emailing them almost since we arrived here, with no result. He's been hung up on several times - guess he sounds funny on the telephone...</li>
<li>Jeff also figured out how to add minutes to our phones remotely, using the Internet and a credit card, so we don't have to walk into town to find a Pap Padap (Digicel) or a La Pou La (Natcom) which is a hot and sticky job. He went to a website and did it all in a few minutes instead of the hour it would probably take us to walk somewhere and back.</li>
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<li>It's always fun when people are imaginative. We see it when a Haitian is creatively transporting something odd-shaped item from one place to another in a non-standard way. So for example, in the market the other day, we saw a motorcycle driver carrying a very tall step ladder. The ladder was standing vertically on the seat between the driver and his passenger. The ladder was pointing to the sky, not even wavering a bit, perfectly balanced. I wish we could have taken a photo. This was not a big moto, either. Amazing.</li>
<li>Another transportation feat - a man went by riding a horse down Route National #2 - a busy highway with crazy drivers. And guess what? He was carrying a bicyle in front of him, with the two wheels positioned vertically, with the bottom wheel resting on his horse blanket. The bicycle-horse was quite tall as well as unusual looking, and so it caught my attention as it galloped down the road.</li>
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In this last photo, Richard, our daytime security guard, keeps watch as Jeff snaps away. We're wondering when they're going to harvest the sugar cane right next to our fence - that will open up a new view.</div>
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We are getting to the point that our Kreyol is good enough that we are communicating pretty well with the staff here at the guesthouse. This means we can begin to tell some of their stories, too.<br />
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One of the treasures here Leogane is Yvette Joassaint, our cook.<br />
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She is in perpetual motion, arriving about 6:30 am and working until 6:30 pm. She works seven days a week if we have guests every day, although we give her the weekends off when we can.<br />
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During the day, besides cooking all the meals, she goes to the market to buy supplies.<br />
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And, in the recent weeks, when we've had Jocelyne's daughters here to help while Jocelyne has been sick, Yvette has supervvised them, too.<br />
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"Artist" is not part of Yvette's job description. But it could certainly could go on her resume. The photo above shows a "simple" supper that she made for Jeff and me. She pays attention to the colors and the arrangement of the food as well as the taste. In the small bowl at the left is the fish stew she made to go with the rice, assorted vegetables, and potatoes.</div>
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Yvette spends hours slicing and chopping after she gets home from the market. The kitchen gets extremely hot and stays hot, but there she is, frying and boiling, making most dishes on the stove top. </div>
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Here is our dining area with the bright, jewel tones of our new painting reflected in the food, along with Yvette's most recent assistant, Loudie, who always seems ready to help.</div>
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Yvette lives in Port-au-Prince with her family, commutes to Leogane and stays with a friend when she is working. After she attended secondary school in PAP, Yvette went on to college to be a cosmetologist, learing to color hair, and do nails. Perhaps she learned some artistry there?</div>
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Then she went to cooking school for an entire year.</div>
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Yvette is committed to making sure the guesthouse runs well and has lots of visitors. </div>
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We hope that all of you who have tasted her great cooking will come back again, and will spread the word for us about our guesthouse jewel.</div>
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<li>Hired and began coaching a new gardener. His name is Junior and he speaks English, too.</li>
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<li>Worked with Loudie to do some fall cleaning. Since we have no guests until the end of the week, we've wanted to find something for our staff to do. We're lucky to be working with such delightful people.</li>
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Last week, Michael Anello, BGF's Haiti Field Manager, gave us a tour of facility, where he lives in a ti kay, or little house. <br />
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Delaney Bay hosts a number of organizations, including one operating a health care clinic. Our new friends from <a href="http://goalshaiti.org/" target="_blank">GOALS Haiti</a> also have had a ti kay there.<br />
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The <a href="http://www.delaneybayfund.com/currentProjects.php" target="_blank">Delaney Bay Foundation</a> is based in Watertown, NY, and has been operating in Leogane since the earthquake. They provide space in what used to be a tee shirt factory. <br />
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Delany Bay rents space to Building Goodness for their ti kay construction operation. Building Goodness' employees are building prefab houses for distribution to several locations around Haiti. <br />
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When they're done, the Building Goodness staff will have built 600 homes for Haitian families. Both the prefabbing and onsite construction is done by Haitians.<br />
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You can read BGF's official description of their <a href="http://www.buildinggoodness.org/index.php/projects/current_project/ti_kay/" target="_blank">ti kay project</a>, and see the latest progress through the lens of Jeff's camera.<br />
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We've had a busy day today, working on job aids for the next guesthouse manager. Jeff has been assembling a manual of rather technical set of descriptions of all he's learned, while I'm working on short job aids with photos.<br />
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The consequence is that I now know how to start, stop, and refuel the generator, as well as how to operate the in-well water pump and how to troubleshoot the pressure water pump which is supposed to operate automatically. We even have a job aid for the whole house fan. Such fun.<br />
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<li>We even added a password to the wireless router so our guests can have free wireless internet without sharing this service too far afield of the guesthouse property.</li>
<li>And, we figured out, with quite a lot of help from a friend of Michael Anello's named Jamison, how to recharge both without going to the Natcom office which is a long walk away.</li>
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Another small but important victory is the installation of a laundry tub in the laundry room. <br />
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An interesting fact that we learned from Missy Owen right before we came to Haiti on this trip - Haitian employees wash up and change to clean clothes before they leave work at the end of the day, and before they get on public transportation. We hope the laundry tub will be a help, so they don't have to haul water in a bucket when they're getting freshened up.<br />
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Thank you, Alfredo Medina, for purchasing the tub (they aren't available in Leogane) and sending the plumbers!<br />
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And did I mention that we hired a new gardener? His name is Junior and he speaks quite a lot of English so he should be a fun contact for future guests who do not speak Kreyol.<br />
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Jeff cooked us "French toast" today. We found some extra bread in the frig that had been left behind by our Building Goodness friends!<br />
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We're working today on writing a guesthouse manager guide, with notes that we post on the various appliances so the next person doesn't have to figure it all out. Maybe!<br />
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We have been interviewing candidates for both guesthouse manager and gardener. There are some excellent candidates - FHM should be happy to hire any of them. Fortunately, it's not our decision - we're just on the interview team.<br />
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Here's a photo of Jocelyne, the housekeeper here. I took this photo for Missy, as she sent Jocelyne the bag.<br />
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Jocelyne is having surgery this Wednesday - yes, it was postponed from last week because her doctor unexpectedly left town. <br />
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Her experiences along with those of Yvette's at a local clinic have given us some insight into the healthcare system here and why we need badly to get the <a href="http://familyhm.org/leogane-family-health-center/guesthouse" target="_blank">Leogane Family Health Center</a>, and particularly the Surgical Facility, up and running as soon as possible.<br />
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We see a lot of the de Matteis construction crew but they are not working here yet - they're building a guesthouse similar to ours over at the Leogane Nursing School. <br />
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Apparently they've taken over the project from another construction company who never managed to get started. So they won't be working here until they finish some work there first. In the meantime, we'll get to know them all better.<br />
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Meanwhile, we share the same volunteer architects - <a href="http://hiteassoc.com/" target="_blank">Hite Associates</a> of Greenville, NC. <br />
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A note to friends of Joelle - did you see that Secretary Hagel visited Joelle's ship in Japan? Search on Hagel and Stethem and you'll see various pictures, although his announcement of calling back Defense Department civilians dominated the coverage.<br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12185816966308410346noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7905188560296444124.post-60304438016685964332013-10-05T05:50:00.000-07:002013-10-05T06:09:21.148-07:00A Potpourri of ActivitiesAs our third week in Haiti comes to end, I realize that there are many things we've done that we haven't told you about. <br />
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<u>Visiting Dr. Delson Merisier again</u> with Bob and Claudia Lempp, friends from Apex UMC. <br />
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Delson gave us a couple of coconuts, with Bob getting help from Yvette to open and eat them back at the <a href="http://familyhm.org/leogane-family-health-center/guesthouse" target="_blank">guesthouse</a>.<br />
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We also saw the new second floor/laboratory and meeting space at Delson's clinic. It's not quite as large as the part that fell down in the earthquake, and was built in partnership with <a href="http://gardener/" target="_blank">Heart to Heart International</a>.<br />
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While with the Lempps, we also had our first experience using a Sogebank ATM. It's always so much fun when one sticks in one's American credit card and out comes non-American money!<br />
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<u>Fighting the hundreds of frogs</u> that accumulated after a very heavy rain storm.
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Fortunately, there was only one left the next morning. They are also VERY loud at night - screeching and squawking, unlike frogs we've hear before in NC or NY.<br />
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Our guard Richard knocked lots of them down from the porch walls with a broom. Before that, they were jumping on our heads!<br />
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Jeff wishes he had taken a video so you could hear their "thwapping" as they hit the porch tiles.<br />
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<u>Going to wonderful Taino Beach</u> with our new friends from Building Goodness. The spiny lobster grilled on the beach and the water (temp & clarity & color) were fabulous! We enjoyed the dugout canoes and sailboats, too.<br />
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<u>Thinking about guesthouse decoration</u> with paintings that Bob and Claudia picked out in Jakmel.</div>
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So Bob and Claudia took over and got these two on the beach for $30. Michael Anello (BGF) is going to help us get them mounted on wooden stretchers so we can hang them. That's Wendy from <a href="http://519church.com/" target="_blank">519</a> church holding up the other end.</div>
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According to Wikipedia, <strong>potpourri</strong> can refer to several things:</div>
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We hope you've enjoyed our Kreyol "melanz."</div>
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build a women's clinic in the mountains above Leogane, they had the idea it would be great to have a woman architect to design the new facility.<br />
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Sara Harper was in Haiti this week to finalize her design for the facility. A graduate of the School of Architecture at the University of Virginia, Sara is a Haiti structure and Building Goodness <a href="http://nationalcenterforcoatings.com/news/9-news/19-uva-energy-efficient-houses-headed-to-haiti" target="_blank">veteran</a>.<br />
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She is pleased to be working with colleagues Michael Anello, Haiti Field Manager and Women's Clinic Project Manager Mike Gallahue. Both Sara and Mike are volunteers.<br />
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The threesome spent time this week at the proposed Tom Gato site, about 45 minutes up the mountain from Leogane, and slightly beyond the Abatonel turnoff to Fondwa, for those of you who know the area. <br />
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Sara had seen a video of the site and lots of photos, but she was completely wowed by the view when she first came on site. She said it was very different to be there in person.<br />
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Sara is looking forward to creating a safe place for women, one that will improve women's lives both emotionally and physically. <br />
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The new clinic will provide critical capability to Family Health Ministries as they continue implementing their <a href="http://sara%20is%20looking%20forward%20to%20creating%20a%20safe%20place%20for%20women,%20one%20that%20will%20improve%20lives%20both%20emotionally%20and%20physically./" target="_blank">Safe Motherhood</a> program.<br />
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<a href="http://www.buildinggoodness.org/" target="_blank">Building Goodness</a> expects to begin construction soon. All three team members are hoping specifically to recruit women from the US to come to Haiti to help build the education and birthing center - women helping women. We think it sounds like fun.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12185816966308410346noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7905188560296444124.post-42201508253676816152013-10-03T03:24:00.000-07:002013-10-03T03:24:48.444-07:00Who Knew? Visiting the Kleren Factory<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Outside the old factory where they still sell the liquid</td></tr>
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Back in 2007, I visited the kleren factory down the street from where the FHM guesthouse is now located. At the time, I was with Dr. Delsen Merisier, Dr. David Walmer, and a group of Duke students. <br />
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I distinctly remember how the strong spirit, apparently only made in Haiti, permantly etched one of the student's water bottles.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Inside the old factory </td></tr>
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At the time I wanted Jeff to see the process, since it featured distillation, one of his areas of expertise as a chemical engineer<br />
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When we went by last week to see if we could take a peek, the people playing dominoes outside told us they were "ferme" or closed. <br />
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We noted, however, that the barrels of kleren, made like rum from sugar cane but not as refined, were still being stored in the adjacent building.<br />
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On Monday, we tried again since we had a team visiting who were interested in exploring this Hait speciality. <br />
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Even though it was closed, I asked if we could just look - all in Kreyol, of course. They actually said yes!<br />
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Then he gestured for us to follow him in his truck. <br />
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We piled back into the van and drove a short way down Rte National #2, and the mystery of all the wagons of cane going by the guest house was solved.<br />
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As we pulled into the new factory, there were many empty wagons and huge piles of cane.<br />
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We were treated to a tour, watching them squeeze the juice from the cane and seeing them fill the boiler with the already-squeezed cane or bagasse. We were even invited to climb up the distillation apparatus.<br />
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At the end of our visit, the owner told me were welcome any time. And he explained that he remembered my coming with Dr. Merisier many years ago. </div>
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He also pointed out that he owns the cane plantation on two sides of the FHM guesthouse, so he's our neighbor! Who knew?</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sunrise over the mountains - in back of the house.</td></tr>
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"Fig-yo" because "bannann-you" are plantains.</div>
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