Haiti 09
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Arrival in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti!!
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This is the picture of the orphanage where we stayed for the duration of the trip. The house is located in Petionville, a city north of Port-Au-Prince in the mountains.
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This is the view of the neighborhood and mountains from the orphanage.
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Another view.
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The mountains in the distance from the orphanage.
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The back of the orphanage.
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the beautiful orphange : )
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Another terrace where the kids generally play.
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This is a photo of Pastor Jean-Fritz Nichola and his wife Missou, whom everyone refers to as Madame.
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Almost all of this photos came from my friend Kelly who took lots of shots of the kids, the orphanage, and Port-Au-Prince.
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Some of the girls at the orphanage playing around. They all loved having their picture taken.
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Nita & one of the little girls at the orphanage. All of the kids take care of each other.
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In total there are around 60 children at the orphanage. They have a number of women who serve as nannies to the children, feeding them, and sleeping in the rooms with them at night.
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This is Johnnie, who they found a couple of days before we arrived. He's around one month old.
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This is the boys room at the orphanage where they probably put around 10-12 children.
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This is Markeev
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Some of the boys at the orphanage.
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Day Two begins with a trip to church and then to the site in Gressier, where the new orphanage will be. The site was only 12 miles away as the crow flies, but it took at least two hours to get there.
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This is a typical picture of us in the van. There were eleven on the team total and we fit ten of us in the back with five on each bench with one in the front with Pastor.
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These next few will be pictures taken out of the van of the streetscapes in Haiti.
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Building Materials
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People generally build what they can at the moment, generally leaving the re-bar exposed on top of the columns for future expansions, which might not happen for years to come.
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I love this photo of this man in his suit with his bible on his bike.
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Here is the photo of the current school where church is also held. We are on the roof talking with the pastor about common building practices in Haiti.
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This is on site of the church. Roosters were EVERYWHERE in Haiti and they ALWAYS woke us up in the morning.
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The next few are of the church service
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Some of the people leaving after church.
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Now we are finally at the site!
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This is Mike, our structural engineer standing by some of the material that Pastor has on the site.
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The road leading up to the site.
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The view out to the bay.
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Here's me on the site!
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This is an amazing fruit, which blooms like a flower. The next two are of it as well. i just thought it was interesting and wanted to share : )
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So sweet!
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A great group shot! : )
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This is Kent, one of our civil engineers, standing over the well on site.
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Our surveying crew hard at work : )
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This is Pastor : ) and...
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This is his son, Junior. : ) They look so similar. haha thought i'd show it
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This is Pastor and his family. : ) It is great trying to get them to pose.
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Kelly brought down a packet of stickers and the kids proceeded to put them everywhere...it was so great to be able to give them presents because they were so unbelievably grateful and they shared with everyone! it was so amazing to see them immediately turn and share. : ) God is smiling down on these kids
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These girls are so unbelievably sweet. Nita is in the purple dress and Germany (yes like the country) is her school uniform. They and some of the other older girls helped make us dinner and were upstairs with us a lot of the time. They spoke English very well and we were able to get to know them well.
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The older kids heading off to school!
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Yep that is how they went, standing up and all : )
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Jaimee brought out bubbles for them.
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I thought this was a great picture of our team leader Greg with a lot of the kids.
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Jump rope : )
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More games!
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Kelly brought those sponge capsules that you put in water and they grow into shapes. the kids loved it!
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The kids created their own fun adventures around the orphanage.
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The also had some toys to play with.
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Another thing that was wonderful to see about these kids is just how self-sufficient they are. They all helped out.
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I just love that she has a book on her head : )
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Kelly with Markeev and Davidson.
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Love this picture...having it hanging up at work and it always makes me smile.
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Doesn't his smile remind you of goofy? haha adorable.
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preciousness
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one thing that was constant was that the kids just longed for affection. the minute you were down there and responded to them, you had five plus wanting to just touch you and hold on to you. i just wanted to hug them all!
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these two girls were so precious! : ) I think they were sisters.
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This is a typical meal that the kids have three days a week. It sort of like gravy. Sometimes they have rice and other treats as well, but this is their main staple.
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innovative eating techniques.
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And these are just some snapshots of food that they prepared for us
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My first time down with the kids
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Just want to be loved on : )
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I loved Germany. She is so sweet and always would find me and grab my hand or arm.
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One thing that was interesting and is that they loved our hair! haha they just wanted to touch it, which was weird for me when i hadn't washed my hair in a day or two! Haha!
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Jaimee let them braid her hair! : )
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These next couple are of us working, which is how we pretty much spent our days. Jennifer on the left was the other architect on the team and gabe on the right was another architect/urban planner who did the master plan
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Presenting to Pastor and Madame
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Working : )
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These next few are taken around Port-Au-Prince. This is Haiti.
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I love this photo
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Kelly was able to see what their current school looks like. Our hope was to be able to design them a new school on the site, but there was not enough space for it. But Pastor I am sure will have that come later : )
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Madame's office
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Towards the end of the trip the kids got very comfortable with us. posers : )
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Trying to take a picture with all of us looking haha
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Pastor took us into the city to kinda walk around one day. By kinda we mainly stayed on this not very busy/market road. Pastor didn't want to draw too much attention, which is hard with eleven white people walking around. This by the way is the President's House...yep the only thing in Haiti like it
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Our group again : )
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Random shots around downtown
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So we were all excited because we were going out to eat at a Haitian restaurant...or so we thought. We went to basically a fast food restaurant, but at least we have a posed group photo
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Kelly and me
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At lunch, Mike suggested we bring back pizza for the kids so we were all able to give it to them!
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us hanging out waiting...
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cutting the pizza
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oh the anticipation
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woo-hoo!
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aw!
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Along with pizza we also gave out rings to the girls
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and cars for the boys
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haha they were excited
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Madame is the mother to all : )
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A view from the terrace at the orphanage. This is our final day at the orphanage
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Here is Jennifer & I out on the terrace.
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Gabe preparing his beautiful site plan
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The Haitian and American Flags
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Now starts show pictures of our presentation
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My first floor plan of the guest house I designed.
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Exterior Rendering of the guest house
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Site plan. We have the orphanage on the left, two guesthouses, the church in the middle and Pastor and Madame's house on the right
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The orphanage's second floor plan.
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The orphanage!
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Presentation!
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Shaddrach is in the middle, he helped translate for us. I told him how much I loved his name, they call me Shaddy
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After the presentation the Pastor took us to a lookout so we could see the whole Port-Au-Price
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It is insane how dense it is and you don't even know it being there.
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Our team photo!
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The girls!
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These last few are of pictures of this last day as we went to the baptist mission and souvenir shopped.
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yep that's a monkey
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bunnies!
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this was on one of the market people's stall. It is always a wonderful reminder : )