The kids were cheerfully following us around, holding our hands and asking multiple questions in French that we could scarcely understand, so Georgianne and I decided to stop and pose with them as Andre took our picture.
Another mother brings her sick child to us seeking help.
Blackberries are a beautiful thing as Georgianne calls in the symptoms to the States to get a diagnosis and suggested treatment for the baby. Andre pulled out some money for her to catch a tap-tap to the clinic in Cità © Soleil.
Now this woman describes her baby's problems. There is absolutely no clinic in the camp, only a weekly visit by medical staff from MSF (Mà ©decins Sans Frontià ¨res, Doctors Without Borders in English).
A young man poses for me.
Now we come to one of the few general stores in the camp. There is a small level of business going on in Canaan.
The grocery store's rooster
Another woman talks to us.
This young woman is the clerk of another store, mangoes and packaged goods for sale behind her.
We have come all the way back around to the entrance road to the camp where we are beginning to say our goodbyes.
As we leave the camp and return to Highway One, this sign for the camp says it all. As heroically as the camp's citizens struggle to survive daily, they still need our help and support, judiciously applied to help empower them for the New Haiti slowly rising.
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Next: Part 3, Camp Corail
For more on both exposition on both camps, click on Georgianne Nienaber's link:
Voices From the Camps in Haiti: "We Don't Know What Will Happen"
Another mother brings her sick child to us seeking help.
Blackberries are a beautiful thing as Georgianne calls in the symptoms to the States to get a diagnosis and suggested treatment for the baby. Andre pulled out some money for her to catch a tap-tap to the clinic in Cità © Soleil.
Now this woman describes her baby's problems. There is absolutely no clinic in the camp, only a weekly visit by medical staff from MSF (Mà ©decins Sans Frontià ¨res, Doctors Without Borders in English).
A young man poses for me.
Now we come to one of the few general stores in the camp. There is a small level of business going on in Canaan.
The grocery store's rooster
Another woman talks to us.
This young woman is the clerk of another store, mangoes and packaged goods for sale behind her.
We have come all the way back around to the entrance road to the camp where we are beginning to say our goodbyes.
As we leave the camp and return to Highway One, this sign for the camp says it all. As heroically as the camp's citizens struggle to survive daily, they still need our help and support, judiciously applied to help empower them for the New Haiti slowly rising.
*********
Next: Part 3, Camp Corail
For more on both exposition on both camps, click on Georgianne Nienaber's link:
Voices From the Camps in Haiti: "We Don't Know What Will Happen"
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