HAITI CONNECT

The dust has settled since the first few volunteers have returned from Haiti and it’s time for an update on our progress. After months of preparations, conference calls and equipment gathering our first team departed for Haiti on Saturday April 3rd. Three volunteers flew from Shannon, Ireland via Newark to Ft. Lauderdale where they were [...]

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The planned May 1st fundraising event at Coolbawn Quay has been postponed. Both the owners of Coolbawn Quay and the founders of Haiti Connect have decided that a temporary postponement would allow for more time to properly plan the event. Aid efforts continue with the founder of Haiti Connect having just returned from Haiti, while [...]

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I shot quite a bit of video footage while in Haiti using a Kodak Zi8 camera. Most of it is shot from a moving vehicle with the radio providing the backing track. Below is some raw, unedited footage. While choppy it gives you a good impression of how in spite of the destruction of poverty [...]

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The last three days have gone by in a haze of activity and we’ve been so busy that I haven’t had time to write any daily blogs. So I am just going to roll everything from these days into one big blog-post. On Tuesday Kira and myself were collected early by our driver and security [...]

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Monday April 12th 8:53 pm. I have just retreated to my bedroom and it wasn’t a minute too soon. The rain has just started and boy does it rain! My “bedroom” is a 40ft by 30ft building in a walled compound near Kaliko beach just of Route National 1. The building is constructed in a [...]

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