I recently returned from Haiti. One of the places I visited was a Beach Town that is two hours from the Capital of Port Au Prince, near Saint Marc. Check out my video of Montrouis.
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This week, I am getting ready for my visit to Haiti with Scott Bonnell, Founder of Hope to Haiti. I’ve got my Malaria pills and done my shopping. I am almost packed – won’t need much but I’m bringing a 50 pound suitcase with me. My Rotary club has sponsored $200 for a suitcase full of toys and my dentist friend donated 16 lbs of sample toothpastes and kids tooth brushes.
The new orphanage we are visiting opened on April 16, 2010. When they opened, there were 14 boys and 6 girls. I’ll be teaching the kids how to brush their teeth. Something so simple (that we take for granted) will be a big thrill for them. It will be a heartfelt blast watching the kids play with the toys that I bought.
This will be my 4th trip. It will be my 1st trip since the devastating earthquake that struck on January 12, 2010. I am anxious to see the progress and clean up that has been going on for the past 4 months.
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In the next couple of weeks, I am heading back to Haiti with Scott Bonnell, Founder of Hope to Haiti. We will be arriving in Port-au-Prince in the afternoon. The next day we will attend a Church Service in a town called Montrious.
Montrouis is a coastal town in western Haiti. It is located at around in the Ouest Department. Montrouis is also one of the most important beach tourism destinations in Haiti, with several well renowned hotels and resorts, including le Moulin-sur-Mer. The town is located on the Cotes des Arcadins, one of Haiti’s longest stretches of pure white sand beaches. It is also an exceptional place for sailing and fishing. I have never been to Montrouis – I love the beach so I am anxious to visit there. We will be staying at a hotel in Montrouis.
From Monstrouis we plan to travel to Cabaret and then head north to Bamboo Laporte. We will be visiting the school and talking with the community there. The next day, we plan to visit Gonaives to visit the new orphanage, the other schools and the water project. We will be spending the night at the Caring House Village in Gonaives. The next day, we will visit the main school campus at St Marc.
These are the children at the Confraternite School in St Marc Haiti. Most High Ministries/Hope to Haiti has provided food for these school children since April 2008. This was the first feeding program for Hope to Haiti.
We will finalize our visit back at Port-au-Prince and then head back to Miami.
This will be my 4th trip to Haiti & my 1st trip since the earthquake. Needless to say, this trip will be a little different than my past trips to Haiti. I am anxious to see the results and efforts of all the hard work that has gone into helping the people in Haiti since the earthquake. The newest water project by Hope to Haiti should prove to be interesting also.
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Scott Bonnell the Founder and CEO of Hope to Haiti. Shares about the water towers he is working on. I am planning a trip to Haiti with Scott in May.
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American Doctor and Volunteers Help Haiti Get Back on its Feet with World-Class Care
By Katie Couric
(CBS) In a dusty field 200 feet from the Port-au-Prince airport, a makeshift medical center treats life-threatening injuries and chronic illnesses.
“If they come in here, they’re treated as if they’re at Mass General, Mayo or University of Miami, anywhere in the world,” said Dr. Barth Green.
CBS News anchor Katie Couric reports Green was one of the first to arrive in Haiti after the earthquake.
“The first day,” he said, “we were literally off a plane, operating on a kitchen table.”
Read the entire article here – Just click on this link
Watch this Video from CBS- Notice the Shelterbox tents in the background
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Remarks After the Haiti Donors Conference
Today, the United Nations are united for Haiti. The international community has acted unanimously and for the long term. This is the down payment Haiti needs for wholesale national renewal. It is the way to building back better. Now, it comes down to implementation – delivery on our promises, transparency, and accountability. We must make sure Haiti gets the money it needs when it needs it. And we must guarantee that it is well-coordinated and well-spent.
I want to thank, once again, international community for their extraordinary generosity. This is international solidarity in action. I also want to thank co-host Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the five co-chairs present here for the successful outcome. My special appreciation should go to Special Envoy President Bill Clinton.
For the complete transcription, click on this link: http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2010/03/139336.htm
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At the time of this video being shot, ShelterBox has sent more than 8,000 ShelterBoxes to Haiti after the earthquake on January 12.
Each box contains emergency shelter provision and life saving supplies. In Haiti, ShelterBox has been working with the French Red Cross, the US 82nd Airborne Division, IOM, ACTED, the Dutch military, local Rotarians, Scouts, MSF and Handicap International.
Boxes have been distributed to the people in most need.
Please visit www.shelterbox.org to find out how you can help support ShelterBox’s work around the world.
Music: Alicia Keys – Send Me and Angel
Penrice Community College – Song for Haiti
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Two former U.S. presidents, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, toured Haiti’s earthquake damage and vowed to help kick-start the nation’s tattered economy.
Haiti’s President Rene Preval walks with former United States Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton as they shake hands with Haitians in the earthquakes survivors camp located in the Place Mosolee, next to the destroyed Haitian National Palace. Slideshow Courtesy of CHARLES TRAINOR JR / MIAMI HERALD STAFF
PORT-AU-PRINCE — Former Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton arrived in quake-ravaged Haiti on Monday, pledging to remind Americans that Haiti is still suffering and in need of long-term recovery and vowing to use the money they raise to help stimulate the country’s ailing economy.
Monday’s visit was the first joint trip to Haiti by the two presidents, who lead a fundraising drive aimed at helping Haitians support themselves. It was Bush’s first visit to Haiti, and Clinton’s third since the quake.
After arriving, the former presidents learned that Haitian President René Préval took a critical step toward boosting resettlement efforts in Haiti. He signed an executive order declaring the right to seize land through eminent domain, Clinton told The Miami Herald.
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ShelterBox Founder Tom Henderson has seen firsthand how ShelterBox tents are providing shelter to families who have lost everything in Haiti.
The charity’s CEO is in Port au Prince where 10,000 ShelterBox tents have been distributed to those left homeless in the tragedy, with thousands more tents on the way.
Tom has been undertaking a field assessment of ShelterBox’s operations in Haiti and meeting partner agencies who have provided support during one of the largest deployments in the charity’s history. He is joined by ShelterBox’s International Training Academy Manager Ben Spurway (UK) and ShelterBox Response Team member David Eby (US), one of the first aid workers to arrive in Port au Prince following the earthquake on January 12.
To see photo & read the rest of the article, click here.
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CROIX-DES-BOUQUETS, Haiti — Brazilian peacekeepers operating oversized bulldozers and tractors cleared a barren lot of overgrown weeds and debris, prepping it for its newest residents.
But after days of digging 50 feet for water, the 25-acre site in the shadow of Haiti’s central mountain range was abruptly abandoned.
“There was no fresh water. The water underneath is salty,” said Charles Clermont, the Haitian businessman assigned to help the quake-devastated nation figure out how to shelter more than 1.2 million displaced people.
With the looming rainy season and housing proposals coming to disaster-prone Haiti, both government officials and relief workers are in a race against nature to relocate hundreds of thousands of quake victims living in squalid camps prone to flooding. But in their fervent pursuit of rain-resistant shelter, they are finding an old problem quickly becoming a new one: lack of suitable land.
Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/03/04/1513645/lack-of-land-in-haiti-squeezes.html#ixzz0kESp35E1
Tags: CROIX-DES-BOUQUETS, haiti lack of land, haiti rain season
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