Haiti

March 14th, 2009

It’s hot. It’s colorful. It’s chaotic. It’s poor - It’s Haiti.

I finally arrived in Port-au-Prince yesterday at 1pm and found my way to the house of the organization Our little brothers and sisters, where I will be staying for my entire stay. I will be working for them halftime - the rest I will be working on my personal projects (I have a lot in mind, you will see!).

This morning I went out and after 10 minutes Shooting my camera broke (the mirror started to get its own will and moved around).. Great start ;-) But it was my old one, so I went back and took the new one. I went to see Naschda, the little girl that my mum and my grandparents sponsor. She was very ill for a long time but now she is healty again - I am really happy for her.

In the afternoon I went to Cité Soleil to see Landa - the girl on the Unicef picture. I visited her at her home and she lives in really bad conditions. haiti01-32.jpg

She has 5 siblings (on the picture are only 4 because one was not there).

They live in a dwell, its really dirrty and their father is ill because of the bad smell that surrounds their house.

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I want to help them to move away from Port-au-Prince into a nicer home and want to help the kids to go to a better school. And the all need a medical check. Please help me with donations!

Here again my bancaccount- details for donations:

International:
IBAN: BE857410 0358 4006
BIC/SWIFT: KREDBEBB
Account holder: Alice Smeets
Name of the bank: KBC

Belgian transfer:
741-0035840-06 

I am also looking for sponsors for each one of the children. 20 Euro each month will be enough for them to be able to visit a good school. It would be wonderful if we could all together change the life of the very poor Haitian family named Gerome! (All the first names will follow)

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Some other pics from today:

Cité Soleil

Cité Soleil, a portrait of a boy that uses a plastic bag as a kite.

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Another kite - this time self-created

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Picture in the streets in Cité Soleil