Sunday, November 28, 2010

Best Blusher For Olive Skin

JACMEL

Hi everyone!

Today is containment, not beaches bands jealous! And yet, it's not for us it's worse. Some NGOs have confined their staff from Thursday evening until tomorrow night included. The elections were held today. Haitians elect their President and parts, also their senator.

Twelve of the eighteen candidates call already canceled the first round (http://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2010/11/28/haiti-douze-candidats-demandent- the cancellation-of-the-election_1446109_3210.html). Of course, the party of power in place, Init, is not one. According to news from various people with whom we discussed the situation is calm although electric. There are some incidents and protest, but not really violent scenes. At noon, The Mountain (you know, the forest) area near Jacmel, it is the wrong ballots that had been installed in polling stations. Result, the current member, the government candidate, came with his men to close the office. The tension is rising and there were some blows. It calmed down afterwards.

Elsewhere in the country, Hinche example, the ruling party wanted to go as a voter in a polling station. The head of the polling station wanted to regulate. Again there eu des affrontements avec des tirs et un votant décédé.

Ces élections étaient initialement prévues en début d'année. Le tremblement de terre en a décidé autrement. Le pays a vraiment été très abîmé par le séisme du 12 janvier dernier : les Haïtiens sont marqués par cet événement. C'est désormais constitutif de leur mémoire collective. Je n'aurai pas la prétention de vous faire un cours de géopolitique haïtienne. Néanmoins, il faut savoir qu'avant le 12 janvier, Haïti tentait de se construire une classe moyenne à la brésilienne ; classe moyenne capable de faire avancer le pays entre les pauvres qui le restent et les the rich who are more and more. This middle class is the one that lost the most. Coldly we can say that the poor who had shortly before much could not lose ... I put aside the grim counted the dead. The rich have enough money to overcome the disaster and leave the country if necessary. As for the middle class, they could lose their homes, their cars, those that allowed property to anchor their social advancement.

The trauma is in the walls but also in people's minds. These elections are experienced with a certain inevitability. If we can not predict an earthquake, we can reduce vulnerability and intensity of damage. But the country, installed in a dramatic social and economic situation, not prepared, the fault of the politicians in place. Haitians are necessarily part of the responsibility. But this is not the slightest shadow of the immense responsibility of leadership in recent decades. Just as countries or organizations that have monopolized the sovereignty of Haiti, first and foremost the United States and the UN.

Among the speeches of this election, that of a candidate, Mirlande Manigat had an important echo (http://www.lemonde.fr/ameriques/portfolio/2010/11/28/les-six-favoris-de -s-presidential-election-haitienne_1445132_3222.html ens_id # = 1290927). She is former senator and the wife of a former Head of State during the critical transition period experienced by the country in the late 1980s. While criticizing the current government is a formality (the President has taken more than a week to recognize that there could be cases of cholera in the country), she presented the issue of this election in terms of responsibility of each of Haiti to assist in the determination of the country. This can easily remain a slogan but ephemeral addressing issues. Paradox for this country, the revolution of independence has followed the lead of France and the United States there are over 200 years.

But fate is not the island. Haitians are proud of their country, proud of their identity, they would power their measurement. Haiti still has a few revolutions to conduct and much to (re) construct. (Http://www.lemonde.fr/ameriques/article/2010/11/28/elections-en-haiti-les-defis-d-un-pays-en-ruine_1445064_3222.html ens_id # = 1290927).

At the time I finish writing this article, a noisy event takes place in Jacmel, as in other large cities. We stand on the sidelines.

soon!


Posters of the favorite candidate of the then current power





Thursday, November 25, 2010

Chelsea Charmsmaxi Mounds

JACMEL D +3 D +1

Hey!

Thanks for your nice comments for the resumption of the news. I know sometimes it is an unconventional (although interesting:). Débridons it a bit (but not too much, however, it remains seriously) ...

First, you must listen to it in parallel, it is very important that you place the ambience of the hotel from which I have a connection: http://www.youtube.com/watch? v = QbBCUbt_DO4

So many days I'm in Jacmel. It is a charming city where the streets are lively, colorful and just beside the sea! However, no question of playing Mitch Buchanon. And I warn that it is not directly a matter of physics, but rather a lack of well-shirt. Of course I do not have to run red shorty on the beach ... Even less hairy torso as the beast in Baywatch! The work is not a problem, there would be room for the beach. Even I am not equipped.

result, I am redirected. Today I met Sean Penn in Jacmel. You know that little actor?! He was delighted to meet me - I admit it bothered me while I sipped a rum 5 stars - and he seized the opportunity to talk a little. I insisted that the discussion takes place in Haitian Creole. Was based: "Hey Sean, or gen Ki ye?" (= Translation of 'form or good? "). "0h I'm fucking good." Neither one nor two I sent him to his handsome old face: "Ok, be you speak Creole, be you break" ... As he got hurt (sentence, Sean Penn ...), I agreed that we continue in French.

It was therefore maintained throughout. It has been present in Haiti after the earthquake of January 12. He was particularly mobilized in the weeks following the earthquake. Now he raises his foot a little, but he enjoys returning to Haiti, including Jacmel, to track reconstruction. So we exchanged in the association that sponsors to see if we could have a complementary action. I recognize that trade was relevant, but I could not help saying at one point in English to mark the occasion: "Could you stop your strand of hair With!" (For those who are not bilingual, follow the link: http://translate.google.fr/ # en These sensitive holywoodiens ... such as chewing gum that melt in your mouth.

We completed our discussions with the promise to meet again. Not at Cannes either, I'm not that kind of there.

Otherwise I still met some useful during those few days elapsed. I met an association with which we are already working within the framework of a rural development program (http://www.planete-urgence.org/environnement/haiti.php?L=FR as many links as links in this letter). The idea is to accompany the organization of peasants in their training needs, which are numerous. It carries out activities for several years and more since the earthquake. They help farmers in a rural very poor. This "community" of peasant life in the forest. I promise you, in the forest within the meaning of the word. Up there in the mountains, we are surrounded by banana, coconut, guava, papaya, chocolate, coffee, pineapple, etc.. That way, it incites. But living conditions are rudimentary. And OPADEL (Peasant Organization of Active Mountain) carry out many actions to improve local living conditons. Our desire is to reinforce their actions in the areas forming in "administrative" and "technical" it goes through the office, the accounting, HR consulting microcredit, learning the soap, etc..

So these days, with these very invested, we lay the groundwork for the next training. But think again, say that these people live in the forest has always been, it almost suggests that we would be in the Lord of the Rings (kass-dedicated!) With the Community Forest (even if c is not his name ... but Tolkien did not know probably not Jacmel and the surrounding ...).

These days will be calmer by appointment. The elections are approaching and the country pauses. It will benefit with Philippe (expat. who I am as a reminder) to work on other organizational matters.

Certainty, Haiti and Haitians are moving. Easy to say when you're just passing through can you believe ...

you later!

Below, the view over the Bay of Jacmel from the road to Mountain

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Mysore Aunty Phone Numbers

JACMEL

So where to start? Already a lot in just a few hours ...

I arrived yesterday around 14h local time, 20 hours in France. Nearly 10 hours of flight, during which two of my neighbors have seen fit to discuss everything goes without discretion is an attitude shared. I'll have to tell them to "lower the volume," I thought it was a good way to test my patience and my ability to relativize. And I think I did well ...

The airport in Port-au-Prince resembles a small airport decommissioned French province. The passage of customs is mixed: no visa or form complicated cons ... By no stamp in the passport. I wanted to expand the footprints of the world! I pick up my luggage rapidos then I found out of the airport Philippe (the expat. Planète Urgence on this site) and Doudouche (The driver). First good contacts! There is really no time to lose as soon as the plane descended, the first appointment we expect to "Entrepreneurs of the World. It is a small association. French presence in Haiti before the earthquake. This meeting is an opportunity to know themselves better and discover the future prospects for collaboration. Our partners are very nice. The debate will resume next Wednesday. We must not delay to take the road to Jacmel as night falls quickly, around 17h.

For those who do not know, I am in Haiti to develop projects similar to those I'm in Mali. Projects support the model of the Solidarity holiday destination for local people. This will mainly capacity building through training of adults and perhaps more occasionally educational support to children.

The long road to Jacmel. Not so much that the city be removed, but the mountains lengthen the travel time. Jacmel is on the other side of the mountains and hills that form the peninsula south of the country. In addition, we face the night on the end of the journey which Doudouche forced to be more vigilant and to slow down.

After more than 2 hours of winding roads and first trade more personal between the three of us, Philippe makes me discover where he lives, street trade in Jacmel. It's a nice apartment, everything in space and magnitude (of converted industrial lofts). The apartment is located in a small alley which allows filtering on the noise of the city. He is 22h 22h and here I am standing. I do not make me beg to sleep after a good shower in his melodious fan.


This Tuesday is devoted to the road to Camp Perrin, at 5:30 in the south (west) of Jacmel. We must make the acquaintance of associations that Philip already knows and from which projects could be possible. We leave around 10am after Philip has accused his landlord that there was probably a dead rat in the roof of the apartment. The smell and some maggots falling from the ceiling with little room for doubt! This little contretemps is then decorated with several mechanical problems: a tire deflates, the brakes do not brake enough, then who keep more than halt after the descent of the mountain. We will have close to 4 hours to do half the route. Nearly double. I told you that these noisy neighbors on the plane had strengthened my patience. I am completely zen. The banana we identify accomplices of the Sea gives terribly want to swim. Yeah, it's over 30 degrees! Now a question to waive (to the sea!) For lunch before joining Camp Perrin. We do not know what will be done this afternoon. Well we took!

After a chicken rice with peas and little paper beer to the sound of "comparable" - mix of zouk and glued (very)-tight - one starts with three aboard our 4x4. Time to 400 meters and fall on a truck across the road. He has not returned. It has a "rubber" (= tire) flat. What is curious is that a second truck next to a known exactly the same misfortune. We are caught in a mini-plug is a carnival motorcycle and car exhausts. We are waiting ... and we learn that these two punctures have nothing hazardous. The tires have been visited by a beautiful blade. Indeed, a few yards further out of Miragoane, political opponents are protesting against the appointment of polling officials to the cause of Jude Celestin. Jude is the nephew of the current President, Preval. For many Haitians, is the continuity in mediocrity. The next presidential those 28 November and 16 January are linked to legislative elections partielles pour lesquelles des dizaines de candidats se battent. Pour remporter une élection en Haïti, il y a certe la corruption, mais il y a aussi l’occupation… Occuper l’espace, placarder et rendre visibles les affiches d’un candidat et d’un parti. Je ne peux pas imaginer que tous les candidats aient les mêmes moyens. On voit beaucoup de jaune et de vert, les couleurs d’ « Inite », le parti au pouvoir.

Et bien ces opposants qui ne veulent pas se voir imposer les vérificateurs d’un parti protestent. Des arrestations ont lieu avec jugement immédiat par un tribunal semble-t-il. La police cherche les fauteurs de troubles. La population assiste à distance au blocage de la Started with a second truck, a kilometer away, across the road. No luck, we are between two trucks in the middle of the road. They prevent access to the city and its output. Bad luck for us. We wait nearly 4 hours and finally we make between these two dams with an association that we know. Since the recessed area where the association is we can get back on the tarmac beyond dams. Here are the first tremors that herald the first round of elections on November 28. However, we are forced to retrace our steps. If the road to Jacmel is released, the road remains blocked for Camp Perrin. Je ne verrai pas Camp Perrin de mon séjour, l’agenda ne le permet pas. Le rapport de force s’installe entre la population et quelques candidats peu scrupuleux à agiter le désordre afin qu’il profite politiquement.

De retour à Jacmel, je bois mon premier verre de Barbancourt après le dîner. Pas trop sinon je vais être… un peu cuit ☺ Ces prochains jours se feront à Jacmel et ses alentours où nous avons déjà des projets de développement.

A bientôt !

Sunday, November 21, 2010

Wax Penis And Testicles

New blog, new start

Salut tout le monde,

Heureux de reprendre la route, ou plutôt le ciel, destination une île des Caraïbes (je sais, il n'y a it, islands in the Caribbean! But it's better to say:)). After Mali, will be Haiti.

The only time I crossed the Atlantic, is to go to Canada and the United States. I go to a very different scenery. In contrast to the United States, Haiti is the poorest country in the northern hemisphere (with little lending, the planet). But Haiti is also the first country to have slaves declared its independence ... in 1804, shortly after ... the United States and France.

The job gives me the opportunity to discover a new land, new people, new perspectives.

This is an opportunity to propose a "new blog". As evenly as possible I'll give you my news. I'll try to talk about other things as cholera and poverty.

you soon!