The Work Goes On and On
Two posts in one day! There's always stuff happening here and everyday, while the same in many ways, is different in many other ways. The variety makes it interesting, but the mundane tasks of everyd...
Author Archives: Kathleen Goes to Haiti!
Irene
Another hurricane passes and we all survive! We did things a little different for Hurricane Irene than we did for Tropical Storm Emily. Instead of all moving to a shelter about 10 minutes away we had...
Patience & Positivity
I came to Leogane to work with All Hands on a Livelihoods program. Over the past six weeks we have been reviewing the first phase of the project, planning the second phase and trying to figure out wh...
Emily
So after three days of tearing down our base we went to our Hurricane shelter - a building being owned by one of the members of our livelihoods program. As our base does not have a complete roof it i...
Jacmel, Haiti
This past weekend I took a three-day trip to Jacmel with some friends. We left on Friday morning and started our journey to the south side of the island. This is normally a 2 hour trip, driving over...
The Good and the Not So Good
Last weekend a few of us took a trip to Bassin Bleu in Jacmel. Jacmel is on the south coast of Haiti, about 2 hours from Leogane. It's about a two-hour ride, which we did by tap tap and you are award...
Finding a River
The Livelihoods team went out into the field last Friday and it was quite an experience. Don't get me wrong, we are 'in the field' everyday, but our field is very different from the other volunteers'...
Local Flavor
I think this little anecdote sums up a lot of what happens here in Haiti.
Last night some people and I decided to go to one of the local bars: Jackson's. By bar what I mean is that outside of people...
A Day in the Life
Many people ask me what I'm doing in Haiti? What is it like? Well, here it is, a day in the life of Kathleen while in Haiti (sadly it's kind of boring)!
Before beginning the day, let me give you a p...
Working Away
The week passed by rather quickly, working on reports for the donors to keep the Livelihoods program going, and before I knew it the weekend was here. While weekends for most mean a time to relax, Te...
