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The Haiti Project

The Haiti Project. Enfofanm Port-au-Prince July 23 - August 1, 1999. Protecting Women’s Rights in Haiti. Evelyne Margrone & Lynn Hyacinthe open the Enfofanm office. Lynn Hyacinthe, our mentor, and Danielle Magloire, Executive Director of Enfofanm.

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The Haiti Project

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  1. The Haiti Project Enfofanm Port-au-Prince July 23 - August 1, 1999

  2. Protecting Women’s Rights in Haiti

  3. Evelyne Margrone & Lynn Hyacinthe open the Enfofanm office

  4. Lynn Hyacinthe, our mentor, and Danielle Magloire, Executive Director of Enfofanm

  5. Sandy Gill, Liliane Floge, and volunteer from England in Enfofanm office

  6. The inverter, made with automobile batteries, to keep the computer from failing when power goes out

  7. All-important pre-workshop planning session to define terms and work out schedule

  8. Isabel at our posh hotel, which made us feel guilty after each day of working with Haiti’s women

  9. Breakfast under the almond tree

  10. NGO workers at hotel

  11. Typical street scene

  12. Haiti in its heyday,the early decades of the twentieth century

  13. No money for restoration architecture

  14. Buildings in a state of decay

  15. Haiti’s true genius lies in its arts:headloads of baskets for sale

  16. Mr. Petit & his paintings, but where are the tourists who will buy them?

  17. Recycled oil drum art

  18. Love those oil-drum sunflowers!

  19. Painting apples

  20. We visit the museum of Haitian arts.

  21. Major hotel lighting based on oil-drum art

  22. Textile art using sequins

  23. Houses built on mountain hillsides as Port-au-Prince expands

  24. The top of the mountain has also been deforested.

  25. Debris washes down the mountain in a heavy rain.

  26. The faithful 4-wheel drive picked us up each morning

  27. Where we waited in the hotel lobby for our friends

  28. Monument to Maroons, escaped slaves who lived free in the rugged center of the island

  29. Monument to Father Bertrand Aristide, who promised Haiti justice and a new society

  30. Graffiti on wall near export processing zone: “Viv Aristide”

  31. Clouds, metaphoric and real, over Aristide’s Presidential Palace

  32. UN Peacekeepers’ Compound

  33. Anonymous messages about democracy on city walls

  34. Discussing Haitian politics with Evelyn Margron’s husband, Gil

  35. Demonstration at Office of Citizen’s Protection

  36. Liliane, Isabel, & Sandy wearing “Abolish Violence” t-shirts

  37. Political candidate, herself a victim of violence, joins in demonstration

  38. Women doctor tells of another type of violence: dumping of bad pharmaceuticals in developing countries.

  39. Tap-tap: how most Haitians get to work in the morning

  40. Tap-taps are brightly painted, inexpensive mass transportation.

  41. Visit to Fanmyola: Senate candidate educates women about the political process

  42. The woman on the left is also running for public office.

  43. Attending a Famnyola fund-raiser featuring 5 rock bands

  44. The non-existent Women’s Bureau, an empty building

  45. Poster about women’s equality before the law

  46. Visit with Executive Director of Kay-Fanm

  47. Visit with Executive Director of SOFA

  48. Visit to SOFA’s clinic (funded by Madre)

  49. Meeting with “The Strong Women of Matesan”

  50. All of these women had been raped by the police or the army.

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