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Favorite Picture of 2012
I am on vacation this week, but want to share this wonderful picture of students on the stairs of the Mission of Hope school. Happy New Year to all.
Finished…
Architectural design is a process that begins with grand concepts and evolves into tedious minutiae. It is not always linear, we often circle back to ensure that the part and the whole work together, but in general architects work from … Continue reading
Everybody is Here!
Haiti has nine million people. I often say that if you come here for a week you see half of them; everyone lives outside and people love to spend their time parading the streets. Any activity brings hoards of onlookers … Continue reading
Haiti is for Lovers
By and large the people who carve out a piece of their life to work in Haiti are interesting folk. There are new missionaries every time I return to Mirlitone and, aside from the over-zealous, I enjoy them. Occasionally someone’s … Continue reading
Building Stairs
Yesterday we began building the main stairs at Mission of Hope, our first permanent concrete stairs. Like all ‘first days’ of a new phase in the work, it goes very slow and the miscommunication is rampant. It takes us about … Continue reading
Celebrating the Occasion
One hallmark of Haitian culture is gathering together to mark the start of an event. A collective pause or prayer precedes daily meals, laborers gather before each work day; and we mark construction milestones with impromptu but elaborate ceremonies. At … Continue reading
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One for the Record Book
This morning at 1 am we completed pouring the first floor of MoHI School; MoHI’s largest concrete pour to date, perhaps the largest ever in Grand Goave. We started pouring at 10 am on Friday and thirty-nine hours later had … Continue reading
When I Grow Old I Want to be Like Pastor Beauvais
Pastor Beauvais is a twig of a man. Five feet tall and one hundred pounds, maybe; a 36’ belt would surely ring his waist twice. In a country where the average life expectancy at birth is just over 62 (Index … Continue reading
! CONCRETE !
We finished pouring the foundation at the MoHI School today. I hope that you enjoy this photo essay of the days work. Here is the site at 7:00 am Monday morning. The last area to be poured is the upper … Continue reading
Concrete Night
I am sitting at a picnic table under a bare bulb in the middle of Mission of Hope. It is 6:45 pm, which in Haiti means it is black as midnight. I will try to describe the scene, but it … Continue reading
