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Haiti

March 14th, 2009 at 05:46 (Haiti)

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.

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.

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)

Some other pics from today:

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

Another kite - this time self-created

Picture in the streets in Cité Soleil