Home for the week.
Haiti Village HostelThe Walls fell down and the kids used it as a way to make light of the trauma surrounding the earthquake.
Haiti Village HealthPaula uses her old practical nursing skills at the Haiit Village Health Clinic.
Paula PattersonMayor Edo Zenny flips the bill for the rest of the building supplies needed to build an earthbag house. His sister in law, Sheila Khawly-Zenny, who runs the building supply store puts together the reciepts for the bills. Later we sit down and she offers to let us use her beach house to throw a Sister City Beach Party.
Getting Building SuppliesPaula Patterson of Shands Arts in Medicine Program playing with the kids at Haiti Village Health Clinic.
Play TherapyFGWL Founder David Ames meets with Mayor Edo Zenny about the Sister City Program. Zenny is fully supportive.
Meeting with Mayor Edo ZennyWe meet a wonderful family. The kids love seeing pictures of themselves.
On the walk home.We meet Jhonkelly at the HVH Clinic. He danced with J.Lo in Dancing with the Stars. Here he teaches us the Cha Cha.
Jhonkelly teaches the Cha ChaRolin Alexis meets his Uncle for the first time in his life at the airport in Port-au-Prince.
Rolin meets his Uncle.Teacher Shane Hansen photographs some new friends at the Haiti Village Health Hostel.
New Friends Rolin with newly-introduced family and friends at Shelia-Khawly's beach house.
Beach Party!Grace and Jhonkelly have fun wtih a fake wedding on the beach.
Beach WeddingBut it's off on a new adventure.
Hello Moto
Our beach crewShane Hansen captured these guys who found something like a surfboard at Cap Lamandou beach.
Buddies on the beach.On the ride home from Kabic beach. Our host for the day, Chris, takes us to this place that serves fresh BBQ pork and plantains and we munch on it on the beach drive home.
Beautiful SunsetRolin shares a laugh with his Uncle. They met just earlier that day.
Rolin and his UncleWe present our old friend Corey Ratau, co-founder of Kolaj (Kolectiv Atis Jacmel) with his Gainesville Sponsors,
And your'e sponsor is....Rolin and his Uncle connect.
Hug it out.Grace Glennon gives our host Chris a needed massage.
Beachside Massage
Our Host ChrisJhonkelly
Presige AdThe Cap Lamondou pool is super nice. Here Rolin hangs with our hostel-mate Liz.
Dipin the pool.
New Friends at the beach.Rachel Anderson takes a dip.
The water is nice.Jeshwa one of Jacmel's musical prodigies lights up the beach party with some saxaphone.
Beach PartyClasically trained Jazz, Blues and Opera singer Jams with some of Haiti's top talent.
Cross City Collaboration
Rolin singing and laughingShane chats wtih Cory from Kolaj and his friend.
Shane Hansen and new friends.Artist Ambroise partying with us.
Friend from Kolaj.
Corey gets loose.
One of Haiti's best composersWe meet Janet Anthony, an incredible woman who has been bringing musical educators from Lawrence University for many years.
Lawrence University folks
Kelly Cochran and friend.Mike Amish, co-founder of Barrels of Hope gets the building supplies for the earthbag house.
Mike Amish gets the supplies.Mayor Zenny helps us look at potential spots to build earthbag houses.
Grace and Mayor Edo ZennyWe took it everywhere. Here we are on our way to Mother Health International.
Hauling the chair massageReggie helps run Mother Health international. Here we show him his sponsors, the Birth Center of Gainesville and the Traditional School of Midwifery, who are interested in putting on an awareness campaign to send midwives down.
ReggieAt first it was "what on earth is this, 10 minutes later the line longer than one could count.
Chair Massage at the ClinicPaula gives a "Doliies without Borders" doll to a girl at the HVH clinic.
Paula Patterson Drawing pictures with the kids.
Grace at the Clinic
Rachel Makes Corey a card.
It's Corey!With a firm handshake.
Grace meets Corey.Dr. Leon Paul talks about the desparate need for massage therapists in Jacmel. There are very few in the whole country, yet numbers have tremendous physical and muscular trauma from the earthquake.
Filming Dr. Leon PaulThis lucky guy gets some clinical massage done at Dr. Leon Paul's Clinic.
Rolin and Grace massageWe think Rachel is having as much fun as the kids.
Play TherapyIn the lobby of the clinic.
Rachel making the kids smile.Jhonkelly helps Paula Patterson across the river to find the lost orphanage.
Crossing the river
Paula Patterson giving dolls.
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Jeff DePree makes is now in Jacmel. Jeff is president of Outdoor Adventure Recreation at UF. He has read the Jacmel Chamber of Commerce Economic Redevelopment plan and met with its President Roland Zenny when Zenny came to Gainesville earlier this month.
DePree , a UF Doctoral Candidate, will be scouting out opportunities for eco-tourism and marking hiking trails to return with a team in March. . Find his blog here: http://www.ufadventure.com/jdepree/.
