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Riding home from the airport in
Port-au-Prince, Haiti felt familiar. Irecognized the stench of
underdevelopment from my trips to
Guatemala.
The picture on the right depicts the
negligence with which so many
people treat their environments. It
also represents the government that
fails to promote its care.
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Party buses are a more expensive form of
public transportation than the tap-tap on
the right. Nobody in Haiti seems to have
been warned to keep their hands and feet
inside while the vehicle is in motion.
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I lived in the guesthouse at the Partners in
Development site in Blanchard, a suburban
district of Port-au-Prince. Another American
intern Sandra slept in the bunk across from mine.
The American field director Lizzy sleeps in a singleroom. Haitian employees do laundry and cleaning
daily. The floor is concrete, so Rosemary throws
buckets of soapy water around to wash it. There
should be gutters to collect rain water for such
tasks. There are always many things to be done.
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Behind the corn field is the old cholera tent, now used for
diabetes and hypertension clinics. I created record booklets
for all participants.
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Pouchon, PIDs driver in every sense, lives in this house right on
PID grounds.
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The above right shows the area to the right of the clinic where PID plans to
eventually finish building an office extension for the Child Sponsorship
Program.
Medical Center
Partners in Development
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I spent many hours reading, stretching, and stargazing on the clinic roof.
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Blanchard, Haiti
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Sandra is from Virginia. She teaches English to prepare PIDs most
motivated employees to attend university in the US. Shes also
become the group leader for visiting American teams.
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Lizzy is the field
director. She
speaks perfect
Kreyol and has
a year-long
contract with
PID. In the
picture on the
left she is
serving Tom
Tom, a favoriteHaitian dish
made from
lam, or
breadfruit. It
has theconsistency of
raw dough and
is served with a
salty crab
sauce.
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This is Nickenson, my best Haitian friend.
He helps keep the yard neat. Before PID,
he was an outcast because of a slight
physical handicap. This is also why he
never went to school. He is veryintelligent.
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On the left is my recycling
partner, Rilbert. When I
first arrived the furnace
was full so we burned
trash next to it as well asinside. On the right is
Rilberts son, Mikayel,
playing in my shoes.
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Three medical teams of varying fields of
expertise visited while I was at PID. We always
did at least one mobile clinic in nearby tent
cities. I helped with translating and crowd
control.
hi i l i i i f b f h
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This particular tent city, Damien, was a pig farm before the
earthquake of 2010. The Haitian government recently built a wall
around the small city to hinder its expansion. PID is building
homes for seventy-six of these families in the nearby village
Canaan.
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The other triage nurse is Suez. I gave Suez
English lessons on lighter clinic days.
Marceline, one of two triage nurses, was another one of
my best Haitian friends. She took lessons with Sandra and
loved to practice her English with me.
This video is of Suez saying, Tomorrow, I will
bring my notebook.
S d i il ti hild hi b
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Sandra is piloting a child sponsorship sub-
program for children in particularly difficult
situations. Charisemene (in the tub) comes
around three times a week for baths and
love.
Frandeline (right) is the child that my
mother now sponsors. A basic sponsorshipis $30 a month and helps cover the cost of
education. Many Haitians start school at
age three. I imitated Sandras program
with Frandeline. This picture was taken at
our second meeting. She was terrified ofme until I covered her in stickers.
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M Genoi is the director of the Child
Sponsorship Program. He knowseveryone in town and decides who can
most benefit from PIDs programs. Mme
Genois business is making reusable
grocery bags (shown on the right) out of
old sugar sacs from the DominicanRepublic. I purchased two dozen to bring
home with me. I sold them all one
Sunday at church. The proceeds go to
the Emergency Medical Fund I created to
help patients reach beyond the limits of
PID resources.
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Partners are of all ages and areas of expertis
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In Haiti, trash is burned.
Alternatives are few.
PID buries all noncombustible,
nonrecyclable cans, needles,
etc. However, this is not a
common practice.
Smokey the Bear has no presence
here.
One beings trash is another
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One being s trash is another
beings treasure.
To Haitians, dogs bite and
dont deserve to eat our trash.
Most of what we burn in
the founo (furnace) is
plastic. The city air is
nauseating.
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We bag
recyclable
bottles and
bring them
to a weighstation in
downtown
Port-au-
Prince. We
sell themfor 4
Goudes a
pound, or
the
equivalentof
$0.10US.I painted recycling barrels to remind
staff and patients of what to put in
them.
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There are several schools withinwalking distance of PID.
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The facilities are basic.
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PID holds monthly mobile clinics in this tent city, Canaan. They are now
building their third house in the area. The goal is to eventually provide
homes for the entire village.
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Vehicles in Haiti are in a constant state of repair or anpann, literally in
pain. Is there an easier way to induce a state of despair in a group leader
than a tap-tap that doesnt start?
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I visited the Saint Rock Haiti
Foundation for a week with my
godfather and his fellow directors.
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Houses grow sparse as you
ascended the mountain.
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At the Foundation clinic, I helped take blood pressuresand note complaints to distinguish critical conditions
from the average complaint (aka triage). The most
common complaints are headaches and dizziness,
heartburn, and stomachaches. The people here in the
countryside speak slower. Great practice for my Kreyol.
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We brought goody bags with beading kits
to the girls in an orphanage up the street.
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The directors allowed me to sit in on meetings, the
primary purpose oftheirtrip. Haitians on the left are
reporting the success of the Foundations microfinanceprogram to the new directors. Ralph (left) is the
founder and former director of the Foundation. He has
recently passed on these responsibilities to a number
of friends, including my godfather, Tom. Of the 68
micro-borrowers, six are men, and only two have
defaulted.
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Trash and wreckage all the wayhome. The pollution makes you sick
when you hit the city of Karfour at
the bottom of the mountain.
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Big city streets are lined with open
sewers.
Real rivers are in a similar state.
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Despite (or because of, depending on how you look at it) the dailystruggles of the Haitian people, their faith in God is interminable.
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My Trash Talk is the most significant product so far of my two months in Haiti. The
idea came one night while Sandra and I were discussing on the roof after dark. We
were often frustrated by our never-ending privileges as Americans. Almost every
night on the clinic roof in Haiti, I trash talked America. An amazing country in manyways, America could do so much more if greed wasnt such a prevalent mindset. Haiti
looks up to America, a celebrity who is pretty to look at but often thoughtless and
addicted to decadence.
The purpose of my Trash Talk is to inspire everyday Americans to make a difference.
People living in extreme poverty have so little that every dollar can make anenormous difference. With PIDs support, I established the Emergency Medical Fund
for our clinic in Haiti. The EMF covers transporting desperate patients to better-
equipped facilities and paying for their treatments. PID receives about 20-30
emergency cases each week. Most are referred to a hospital, which charges fifty
percent of the costs of treatment. Without the financial support of others, death is
imminent.
If you would like to make a donation to the EMF, please mail checks made out to PID
or Partners in Development to:
55 Market Street, Suite 201
Ipswich, MA 01938
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Thank you.