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SOIL Operations, Port-au-Prince, June, 2013
My first morning out with SOIL in Port-au-Prince, Sasha Kramer, SOIL’s co-founder and Executive Director sent me out with Jimmy Louis, SOIL’s Sanitation Coordinator and Davidson Ulysses, SOIL Drum Collection Supervisor, to the Kan de Viktim tent camp to pick up … Continue reading
SOIL Operations, Cap-Haitien, June, 2013
Theo Huitema, SOIL’s Cap-Haitien Regional Director, met me at the airport. After coffee and a bite to eat at the office, located downtown not far from the waterfront, I went out with Monika Roy, a Program Coordinator whose specialties are … Continue reading
Route des Rails Another Year On
It had been almost exactly eleven months since Brillant and I last visited the former inhabitants of the Route des Rails median tent camp (Route des Rails Follow-up, August 22, 2012) and two years since they moved into their new … Continue reading
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Tagged Carrefour, earthquake, Haiti, median tent camp, NGO's, Port au Prince, Route des Rails, tent camps
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Jane Chalker’s Cange, Haiti
I met up with Jane Chalker and Karen Brooksbank at the Port-au-Prince airport where they had a car and driver waiting to take us to Cange. Jane is a retired elementary school teacher and Karen is a speech language pathologist … Continue reading
Route des Rails Follow-up
The last time Brillant and I visited the former residents of the Route des Rails median tent camp in January, 2011, they were happy and excited to be moving into their new neighborhood, later to be named Brotherhood Village, of … Continue reading
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Tagged Carrefour, earthquake, Haiti, Port au Prince, Route des Rails, tent camps
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Two Nights in Ciudad Juarez, August, 2011
Luis, my host and guide, and I were out and about in his Jeep when, at about nine at night, we came upon the Festival of San Lorenzo at the San Lorenzo church in downtown Ciudad Juarez. San Lorenzo, a … Continue reading
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Tagged Ciudad Juarez, Juarez, Mexican drug cartels, Mexican war on drugs, Mexico
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Presidential Run-off, Port-au-Prince, March 20, 2011
Brillant and I got a relatively late start covering the presidential run-off between Michel Martelly and Leslie Manigat, setting out on foot from the Palm Inn at about 10:30. It being a national holiday, for the first few blocks of … Continue reading
Bon Retour J.B. Aristide
On Saturday, March 12, one week and one day before the Haitian Presidential run-off election between Leslie Manigat and Michel Martelli, there was an article on page two of the Austin American Statesman announcing that Jean Bertrand Aristide’s return to … Continue reading
