Gonaives & Hanna

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7597420.stm

Sigh. Cry. Pray. Repeat.

another neat tool

http://www.globalrichlist.com/index.php

Not really new information, but presented really well. Enjoy, and be challenged!

I went to a wonderful wedding

(not a wedding picture: Photo by Per-Anders Pettersson/Getty Images)

Hopefully I will write about it, and how nice my whole trip was, another day. Be it known that it did make me happy, even though I was reading a frustrating book. I will continue trying to be informed but focus also on love... we'll see how that goes.

From: The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time by Jeffrey D.
Sachs, foreword by Bono (Penguin Books, 416 pages, $27.95)

Malawi made proposals to the international community to help Malawianstry
to reach about a third of the total infected population (about 300000) with
ant-AIDS drug treatment within a five year scale up period.Yet international
processes are cruel. The donor governments toldMalawi to scale back its
proposal sharply because the first proposalwas "too ambitious and too costly"
the next draft was cut back to amere hundred thousand on treatment att hte
end of five years. Eventhat was too much. In a tense five day period the
donors prevailed onMalawi to cut another 60 percent from the proposal, down to
fortythousand on treatment. This atrophied plan was submitted to theGlobal
fund to fight AIDS, TB and Malaria. Incredibly, the donorsthat rund the
fund saw fit to cut back once again. After a longstruggle, Malawi received
funing to save just 25 000 at end of fiveyears - a death warrant from the
international community for thepeople of this country.

I'm still here...really!

Sorry for the long delay since my last post. My creativity is having an identity crisis, at least as it relates to this blog. Should I tell you about all the hand-baskets in which the world is travelling?


Should I tell you about how miscellaneous things I read that I think need more attention, or are fascinating? Should I tell you about my life's happenings? Should I close it down entirely, or make it only accessible to people I know, or make a commitment to practice writing everyday?

Should I admit that I'm a huge geek and have no time to write because I have to go look up the difference between practise and practice?

new tool

http://www.mdgmonitor.org/

The MDG Monitor shows how countries are progressing in their efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). With the 2015 target date fast approaching, it is more important than ever to understand where the goals are on track, and where additional efforts and support are needed, both globally and at the country level.

The MDG Monitor is designed as a tool for policymakers, development practitioners, journalists, students and others to:

TRACK progress through interactive maps and country-specific profiles

LEARN about countries' challenges and achievements and get the latest news

SUPPORT organizations working on the MDGs around the world

Photo credit: Danny in Malawi blog (in links "Many Gears") http://www.dannyinmalawi.blogspot.com/

Day 5 - Hike to Kay Piyat (Cap Ayet?)

Marie-Phila & Jidline, starting out on our hike

A flower on the hill

Banana Bicycle

our destination - cool water swimming hole!

Day 4

This may be an homage to McDonald's, but it is also the neighbourhood's name.

Down the street from the restaurant

Cleaning fish at the new resort

Mcdonald Welding shop

Days 2 & 3

Selena, the next door neighbour of my friend Marie-Phila

Pretty orange flowers

These next are in the front yard / cooking area of the Frecyneau family, friends from my last trip. The girl getting her hair combed is named Mirlande, she is twenty. Her daughter, Chichi (with tongue out) was often sick as a baby, but seems to be much healthier as a toddler - she even has dimples!

I'm here! I'm here! I'm here!

flowers at the almost-naval museum

I'm back in Haiti, MesiBonDye!

I had a slow start, especially with the heat here I can feel like I need to rest all of the time and sometimes need a kick in the pants to get going, but I am starting to collect a lot of photos so must not be sitting around all the time! I will blog when I'm in Canada, so as not to waste time editing constantly here, but in the meantime, to reassure you that I am alive and so is Haiti, here are some of my favourite photos so far this trip.

Day one:

my friends taking me down the path to see their cousin's new house

flowers under the bridge!

mama and kid The water tap at the new house

a ...reptile of some kind, with calabas gourdes