HaitiSpring Break, 2010

Jessica SelmerWorld Food Issues Class

2010

The Haiti side of the Haiti-Dominican Rep. Border

It isn’t odd to see animals, especially pigs, eating all the garbage in Haiti. There is no trash system.

Market on the Haiti border. A lot of the merchandise looked like aide that had been sent to Haiti, and now being

sold for profit.

One of the many schools we visited. These particular children are from Tortuga Island and rarely see white or American people. Singing, putting on skits, and playing soccer were

some of the many things we did while visiting!

Rural Haitian markets could easily be mistaken for trash heaps. Haitians sold anything they had for that day, even if it was only

four bananas.

A lot of schools were crowded and filled with many boys. It was not hard to find children outside of school and on the streets at all times.

Haiti’s rainy season was quickly approaching, so digging trenches to prevent flooding was one of the many

construction projects we completed.

Northwest Haiti Christian Mission had a birthing center, medical center, nutrition program, baby orphanage, and special needs center. Here, we played soccer with some

of the children with Autism and Cerebral Palsy.

Job, who suffered from malnutrition as a baby, is one of the many children who have Cerebral

Palsy and blindness. He loved being sang too!

Earthquake damage in Port-au-Prince.

More damage, if you look closely you can see a bed post, clothes, and shoes.

Thousands and thousands of tents and tarps covered the open fields and lots of Port-au-Prince.