So we arrived in Port-au-Prince yesterday without any difficulties. The team met up in Montreal and then we flew to Haiti together! It was nice seeing old friends and meeting new ones!
We went directly to Giant Market to pick up supplies for Jacmel and Ile-a-Vache. Then Gail had planned for us to meet up with some others from HHHI and HI at The Montana. We watched the sun set and then headed to the Guesthouse! It was lovely seeing Sultane and were treated to griot, acra, pikliz and banan peze! All my faves! How lucky am I?!
We gave going through the wheelchairs that had been recently released from being held hostage for 7 months in customs, unfortunately, after such a long time in customs, the identifiers for who the chairs were assigned to had faded! :(
But we will go through them when we get back from Ile-a-Vache and Jacmel and have the chairs sent to Ile-a-Vache with Irish team next time they go.
We arrived in Jacmel today around 1pm. Hero our driver was amazing and got us here in record time in one piece! I was very impressed by the work being done on the road through Carrefour, where Haitians are working to build sewage system! Then while we were driving through the mountains we saw a number of new houses built out of wood! Another interesting note was that the tents that had been in the median since the earthquake were no longer there.
Driving through Port-au-Prince, there was much less rubble in the streets!
Happy to be here and so fortunate to have the opportunity!
Stay tuned - hopefully will continue to have access to internet (none yesterday)
Bon Bagay!
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