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The TV is just there for show. As is the phone next to it.
Hotel Mandela
Everyone wears their Sunday best to church.
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Laura in the middle, Fr. Bob, then Wilton.
Classes
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This was a place to get clean drinking water, but a lot of people can't afford it.
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Adults and children would come up to the car whenever we got jammed up in traffic, asking for money.
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Tombs. Most of them only big enough for a child.
Normal to see 3, 4, 5 people on one small motorcycle. These bikes were everywhere. Everywhere.
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Cars stop running, are abandoned. Stripped for parts, then eventually set on fire.
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We saw the UN quite a bit. Usually fully armed.
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Juxtaposition.
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These little shacks, which they call "banks", are everywhere. They're lotteries. It's popular to bet on the closing numbers of the New York and Chicago stock exchanges.
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More destruction. I think this was a result of the hurricane(s).
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Obama
Piles of trash and rubble in the middle of the street. All too common sight.
Destroyed cars.
More Destroyed cars.
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This is in the middle of an intersection. People and cars just go around it. Or add to it.
The only time we ventured out into the markets. Little bit of everything is sold here. Grains intended for donations end up being sold. Voodoo stands as well.
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More UN
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Heading into a Sisters of Charity facility. These are always guarded and there are no markings of what's behind the gate.
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For water
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We're going at least 40mph here.
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Typical street view
Our hotel in Mirebalais
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One of the extremely rare signs in English
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In this series, there's a pile of trash and who knows what upstream... >>
trash...
...and just on the other side of the bridge, downstream of the trash, people bathing, washing clothes and dishes, and swimming.
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We'd drive past kids like this going 70mph. This was actually a little farther away than we usually passed them.
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This man works for Fonkoze. He heads out to find the extreme poor and get them into the program. He guided us to the houses and people you'll see in the following pictures.
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It wasn't easy to get to these places. The kids could run up and down these with no problem at all.
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This is the first house we came upon, but the woman wasn't home. Probably at the market selling her crop.
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Word spread that we were there. Kids started watching.
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He checks on her every week. She's telling him things are hard but they are surviving. You can see the number of kids is climbing in the background.
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Fonkoze will bring chickens to the families when they first meet them to show that they're here to help
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This guy LOVED getting his photo taken. He kept tugging at my shirt and posing.
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