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Click on the links below for more sounds of Petit-Goâve as heard at, and from, the bibliothèque worksite: work, traffic, birds, singing, and conversation in Kreyòl. 111208_001 111208_007 111208_010 111208_011 111208_012 111208_013 111208_014 111208_021 111208_022

This morning the team visited College Harry Brakeman, a primary and secondary school in Petit-Goâve owned and operated by l’Église Méthodiste d’Haïti, the Methodist Church of Haiti. It has approximately 700 students in grades 1 – 13. Part of the … Continue reading →

Click on the link below to hear what we wake up to each morning! 111207_003

This morning, Kathleen, Barb, Ann, and Marc-Anny (our interpreter) ventured off to l’Hôpital de Notre-Dame, which is the public hospital in Petit-Goâve. They did not have an appointment, and there was no administrator on site when they arrived. Barb spoke … Continue reading →

Click on the link below for the sounds of downtown Petit-Goâve as heard from the bibliothèque worksite. 111206_018

At the moment when this team photograph was taken, it was 21°F and snowing in Kansas City. There’s another Haiti trip in February. Just sayin’.

This was our first day at the work site, the bibliothèque being built next door to the church in downtown Petit-Goâve. Most of what we did was cleanup, relay of cinderblock and wet concrete up to the second floor … … Continue reading →

(photos by Sheri)   (photos by Jay [or, in one case, with his camera])

111204_019 (click the above link to listen) Doug: “The best thing about the church service was the singing. If the band at COR quit singing, I doubt you could hear the words of the song by listening to the congregation. … Continue reading →

The team has arrived safely in Pétion-Ville after uneventful flights from Kansas City to Chicago and Chicago to Miami, followed by a somewhat eventful flight from Miami to Port-au-Prince. During the final approach to Toussaint Louverture International Airport, we began … Continue reading →