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Portuguese Translation: Haiti Questions Answered

Haiti Questions Answered

1. How became involved with three orphanages in Haiti?

When the earthquake occurred in January, my wife, who is a yoga instructor, immediately contacted a volunteer organization of international aid to see how she could help. She thought she could be taught yoga to help volunteers to help them cope with stress, children orphaned and the homeless living in tents to help them to heal the mind and body. She ended up staying there for the month of May and has worked with several "tent cities" and orphanages.

She did everything from removing rubble, playing with orphans, teach them to teach yoga to work with the Red Cross and the United Nations. While he was there she got a very special affection for a few orphanages and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) who were deliberating opening a school to teach the inhabitants of Haiti to build houses with better resistance to earthquakes. When she returned, she told me that we should organize a trip of voluntary people from San Francisco and surrounding areas to come back and help the orphanages and to make the opening of the school building. We make the trip to be made in October and had 14 volunteers to go to Haiti, practice and teach yoga, volunteering in orphanages and help raise funds to start the school building.

2. Can you tell us about the location of orphanages? They are located in villages or towns? Are in rural areas?

The orphanages are in the rural town of Jacmel, an artistic community, about four hours south of Port-au-Prince. It used to be a tourist destination by the sea, but was heavily damaged by the earthquake. There exist several "tent cities".

3. What is the current status of each orphanage?

One of the orphanage houses, feeds and educates about 82 children and is in the process of building a dental clinic on the property. It is the only dental clinic in Jacmel (the other existing was destroyed by the earthquake) and hope that some of the profit they can make to help fund the orphanage. The clinic will serve the entire city of Jacmel and will work only for Haitians. Some of the funds of the race Misha (Misha's Run) were for supplies for the clinic and spent several days to help Haitians to dig the foundation, put the cement and put rods. They hope to finish the work by the end of the year.

The other orphanage is not yet well an orphanage. It is a large complex, run by a wonderful woman named Bonite Afraine. Every day it opens its doors to 225 children and gives them Lunch is educate them. Many of these children walk more than an hour to get the only meal they have in the day. They do another walk after an hour into their tents where some but not have parents living with children.

Bonite has a strong network of donation in Brooklyn, New York City that sends clothing and medical supplies to help clothe and treat these children when they come in search of scanty meal. She is considered the Mother Teresa of Jacmel. We spent some days in this center to help feed the children, play with them, and help to separate clothing medical supplies. Some of the funds of the Race Misha (Misha's Run) were to repair the ravages of the earthquake and build a shelter for children do not have to eat under the scorching sun. The inside dining room is too small to feed all the children so a third of them lay outside the incredibly hot temperatures. This shelter is now complete, it brought immediate relief to dozens of children. The desire to build an orphanage Bonite is on her property to accommodate some of these children who have no parents. My wife and I are in the process of raising funds to design and build an orphanage, "green" to it with solar panels, water catchment systems, etc.. that could house up to 60 children. The Misha will work with us on this exciting project.

The final destination of the money went to Random Acts of school construction started by an NGO (ACDI VOCA). The school, which serves 40 young men and women who have been orphaned by the earthquake, trains them for four months on how to build homes more earthquake resistance. The Random Acts of money was incredibly well spent there (and that was when he applied most of it). Is being taught to these students real skills with which they can build businesses. In fact, students who began at this time, already have jobs waiting for them when they finish at the end of January. Not only that, but they will build a better future for Haiti with houses stronger. The NGO was having difficulty raising money to buy tools for students as well as to take them to school because the containers are stuck at the port in Port-au-Prince. A few weeks before we went there, they asked if we would be able to carry tools in our bags to help students because they had none. So we had each of our volunteers to bring an extra suitcase full of diapers (for the orphanages) to cushion the saws, hammers, props, items of Freemasonry, tapes and other tools. We ended up bringing 340kg of tools in 15 large suitcases. Alvoroçoa was a passage through customs and see their faces when we opened our bags that were filled with diapers and saws. They think we're smuggling, but when they saw the fate smiled and made a sign to move forward.

4. How is the situation on the ground in Haiti?

Port-au-Prince is crazy. There is debris everywhere, and unemployment is extremely high. With very few people to go to school, is a problem that will affect the future of Haiti. That said, the most remarkable thing that my wife and I witnessed was that the people were full of love, gratitude esperançae. If you do not know, do not have idea that they were in the midst of a national disaster (earthquake, flood, cholera) They sãoo most witty people I have ever visited.

5. The Misha told the story of a man who helped buy supplements at The Home Depot, being Haitian and have lost family. You can tell it? There were other stories while preparing for the trip you would like to share?

Yes, it was amazing. We were to gather tools for school construction and the girl at the Home Depot cashier mentioned that one of the operators of forklift was Haitian and lost his sister and other family members in the quake. We localizamo it immediately and talk with him. He was super glad to hear what we were doing and how the money's race Misha (Misha's Run) will be spent. I visited him recently to share photos of your trip to Haiti and he wept to see some.

6. How was the experience of the trip? They had a problem at customs?

Travel in Port-au-Prince is a nightmare. Much traffic, flooding, diesel smoke, and of course the history of customs problems I have mentioned.

7. How does the community react?

The community gave us was very supportive and very welcoming. Support was particularly strong for school construction. They even held a ceremony of awards on the opening day of the school where the president of Jacmel congratulated us and thanked us for helping them to open the school. We met with all students who were incredibly grateful.

8. What was your biggest challenge the team faced?

was hard sometimes to see so many children without parents. You enter an orphanage and they literally run for you to hold you (four to five children at a time) because they are severely lacking in physical affection and an orphanage manager can only hug air a number of children per day. Say goodbye to those sweet children was very hard. On the positive side, we see them again soon.

9. What was the impact of cholera on the trip?

Cholera broke out a few days before we left, when floods hit the cities. We have been careful to monitor the health of all.

10. Someone from your group became ill?

All remained healthy.

11. Where did during the trip?

We stayed in two hotels in Jacmel water that were cheap, but nice. They had fantastic food and employees were incredibly friendly. It was good to get back to a comfortable hotel after spending all day playing with the heat children, build the dental clinic or to visit the school building.

12. What materials appeared to be most needed?

Orphanages needed diapers and medicine. The school building needed tools.

13. What else liked children?

They liked being held and we play with them. "Jacks" was a very popular game, and make prayer flags (and paint them).

14. What was the biggest surprise during your trip?

Two things, how the people of Haiti was grateful, optimistic and full of love and how it was easy to make a positive impact on the world through a small donation of our time and money. A person feels incredibly good to be doing well.

15. What is the memory that you'll be more positive from this experience?

for me was seeing the students 40 orphans to smile when they started the first class. It was like seeing a path to their future.

16. Do you have any more personal story to tell?

I have a funny story to tell. Near the end of the trip, we still had about $ 1,250 of Random Acts and I'd save it for our next trip, but a big chance came.

We were at a meeting of school construction in presenting tools and other materials to the president of Jacmel as well as other members representing the city. They thanked us and we pass to the speeches and we were operating trying to figure out how they would transport students to and from school. Many of these students live in orphanages or in "tent cities" without families. They either walk long distances or request a ride to school. This means that the attendance was not guaranteed. Any money that the students have spent on food. The president was very concerned that students would not be able to attend classes regularly. The conversation started to get into a downward spiral and see the future of the school concerned.

I whispered to a member of the board: "What would it cost to create a transport system for children who would be paid if they go to school? "Basically, if they came by bus, the school would pay the bus or the driver of the motorcycle. He thought for a moment and said it would be about $ 1500. I told him to tell the council not to worry, that would take care of Radom Acts of transport for this first class. He could not believe what I said. When he told the board, they all stopped talking and just clapped.

Later we agreed the details and my wife and I joined the rest of our funds to reach $ 1,600. Students now come to school and transportation is paid.

17. estãoa When planning the next trip?

Our next trip will be in late June. Let's go to Haiti to build an orphanage, "green" for Bonite Afriane. Let's use an incredible technology that will allow us to build an orphanage in about a week. At the same time, we teach the orphans a profession in construction in help them create there a new industry of "green building". As I mentioned before, Misha will be involved in it a very original way. Stay tuned ...