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Haiti Update
Many readers of The Awkward Pose became followers during my period of working in Haiti. It has been months since I wrote about Haiti, so here is some news: 1. Mission of Hope school is up and running. … Continue reading
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Tagged Architecture by Moonlight, Be Like Brit, BLB, Fond des Blancs, Grand Goave, Haiti, Mission of Hope, MoHI, Saint Boniface
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Buckeye Logic Comes to Magic Haiti
This is the second of four articles I had published in conjunction with the third anniversary of the Haiti earthquake. This article was published in the Cleveland Plain-Dealer on January 11, 2013. Since the 2010 Haiti earthquake I have made sixteen trips … Continue reading
Posted in Haiti
Tagged Akron, Cleveland Plain-Dealer, Grand Goave, Haiti, logic, magic, MoHI, Ohio
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Mission of Hope Sermon
Lex and Renee invited me to speak at their church on the last Sunday of my regular visits to Haiti. We are planning to move classes into the new school in January. Even though I tried to use simple words … Continue reading
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
Driving into Dawn
Pastor Akim, one of MoHI’s regular drivers, must like to get up early. He tells me we will leave at 5 am for my ten o’clock flight out of PAP. I ask him to knock on my door in the … Continue reading
Posted in Haiti
Tagged billboards, Grnad Goave, Haiti, MoHI, PAP, Port Au Prince, tap tap
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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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Tagged BeLikeBrit, BLB, concrete, Grand Goave, Haiti, Mission of Hope, MoHI
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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
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