Cité Soleil is the poorest most dangerous area of Port Au Prince. Twenty years ago Robert Duval went to Cité Soleil and established the Foundation L’ Athlitique d’ Haiti, teaching sports, and providing meals and schooling for many of the children. Full story to come. Copyright 2011 Adam Bacher, All rights reserved. Absolutely NO usage without prior authorization.
Her face pulled attention for a photograph. Local vendors and their story drew wonderment. The old woman often accompanied her daughter, a regular seller at the Pont Sondet market, along the Artibonite River in Haiti. They arrived in mornings from the northern area of Haiti’s central plateau, worked the market all day, and left before dark. Over time the daughter [...]
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Haiti’s ultimate independence from France was won in The Battle of Vertieres, a site now part of the city of Cap Haitian. Historians tell that on November 18th, 1803, the leader of the Haitian rebels, General François Capois, mounted a great horse and led the charge against the French army. In a hail of bullets Capois went down – his [...]
The Citadel is a fortress built on a mountain top in northern Haiti after the revolution in 1804 to defend against any French attempt to retake the former colony. Inside are cisterns built to retain enough drinking water to sustain Haitian troops for up to a year. This photo was taken at the bottom of the main cistern. Copyright 2011 [...]
Bernadette Joseph is a traditional Haitian midwife working in the Lorie Village area of northern Haiti. The following is from an interview I did with her last week. Q: What’s your name and what do you do? A: They call me Bernadette Joseph. When the women are pregnant I deliver the babies. Q: How long have you been a midwife? [...]
The HACAOT.org mobile medical clinic members (less six interrupters and a Haitian doctor), pose for a photo after 5 days of clinics which treated 1,480 people. I’m on the far left. The team is now back in the United States. Tomorrow is a national holiday. Haitian President, Michel Martelly, will be in Cap Haitian in honor of the last major [...]
This boy arrived to the HACAOT mobile medical clinic in severe respiratory distress. He was immediately taken from the waiting crowd, and given a nebulizer to open the airways in his lungs (photo below). A doctor worked with him for two and half hours. Each time the nebulizer was removed he went into respiratory failure. To give him a chance [...]
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“We play with little plates and little cooking pots and little cups. We have little cooking utensils that go in the houses. We pretend to eat.” They have tea parties – just like our children. (click this link for slides and video) Copyright 2011 Adam Bacher, All rights reserved. Absolutely NO usage without prior authorization.
In the red shirt holding the ball is the captain of the soccer team for the village of Lorie, 30 minutes from Cap Haitian, and the north coast of Haiti. He’s one of the 515 people treated in two days in the village of Lorieby a mobile health care clinic, run by the Haitian Caribbean American Organization of Texas: HACAOT. [...]
The city of Dondon, with a population of roughly 50,000, is a one and a half hour drive from Cap Haitain, Haiti. On Wednesday morning, at 5:30 am, the HATCAOT medical team traveled to Dondon to set up a one day mobile health clinic. Their goal: Treat as many people in need as possible. More than a third of [...]
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