Haiti can be a conundrum to a first-time visitor. The streets are littered with rubble from the earthquake of 2010 and debris from everyday living. The economy is in tatters. The World Fact Book reports a shortage of skilled labor, widespread unemployment and underemployment, saying, “more than two-thirds of the labor force do not have …
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Haiti Visit – October 2011 Comments Off
Bill Burmeister and I have just returned from a trip to Port au Prince. Also traveling with us was Jay Wallick, who made the trip entertaining. Not much has changed. The rubble from the earthquake is still around, but much has been moved to either dumps or empty lots. There is still a lot of …
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June 10 Busy day yesterday. We went up to visit the Moliere School, where we had treated the cholera outbreak. Moliere is an area of farmers of approximately 35,000 population, about twenty miles up in the mountains at an elevation of approximately one-half mile. The problem was it was a four-hour trip both ways, which …
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June 24, 2011 We just returned from a week in Kigali, Rwanda to visit the Beacon Program and talk with the various ministries about the water decontamination product created by Clean Water Environmental, Safi. As I have probably mentioned before, Safi is an alterative treatment for Chlorine in creating clean drinking water. It has the …
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Wednesday, 6/8/11 Rwanda. Arrived in Kigali to visit the Beacon Program last Thursday. 80 ladies have now finished the business training of the Foundation and are working together in three cooperatives of 10-20 women. The last group of ten has not received their free K-Lights as of yet. The shipment from the US is too late in …
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