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Living Water Internation Trip to N. Haiti - November 2009

Since my camera died fairly early on in the trip, I want to thank Steve and Jim, and especially Barry, for many of these photos.

Note: 
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Monday, November 30th:  Preparing to leave, but then spending the night in Ft. Lauderdale.




At the Lynx Air counter

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Walking to the plane

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Jim and Barry, getting on board

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An unexpected day at the beach in Ft. L.

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First team photo - on the beach
Barry is the photographer

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Dining at the Cafe Del Mar

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Tuesday, December 1st:  Preparing to leave again ...

Back at the Lynx Air lobby

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On the ground at Cap Haitien

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First view of Cap Haitien traffic

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A view along the road to Rick's

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Home Sweet Home

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New outdoor showers

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Pastor Gilen

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Dinner at Cafe del Rick's (thanks Telin)

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Getting organized - first night

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Wednesday: Our first well in the village of Paulette.

A few spare pumps?

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And a few PVC pipes?
with Jim

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Loading the truck

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And down the road we go

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Scenery, from the truck

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A crowd gathers as we prepare to work

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Unloading pipe
- Rick in the foreground

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Pulling steel pipe

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Paulette village 'square'

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A young girl in Paulette

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Paulette students

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Cleaning the well

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Adding chlorine to the clean the well

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Steve and a friend test the final product

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The finished well, with a school in the background

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Steve and school kids
with a soccer ball

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And a soccer game breaks out

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Barry with a few of his new friends

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Jim turns over the repaired well to the community of Paulette,
and tells them about the gift of Living Water

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The second well - in Terrier Rouge

As we found it

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A crowd gathers, immediately

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The catch of the day - lost steel pipe is fished out

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Ron with a couple of friends

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Everyone's a movie star

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And maybe a future well repairer?

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Shutting down for the day
Jim with a friend

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Heading home but looking West

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Some tired bodies and sore feet?

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Thursday - back to Terrier Rouge,
then on to Grand Bassin

Cleaning begins

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With some football mixed in

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And cleaning continues

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The finished product
- good as new (or better?)

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Jake addresses the community

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A Terrier Rouge friendly face

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And a younger friend

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We're leaving, but the well is already active

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And on to Grand Bassin we go

A sight along the road

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And another

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LWI staff on-site at Grand Bassin

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Checking out the well

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Cleaning the well

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A few of Barry's portrait shots at Grand Bassin

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Thanks for those beautiful shots, Barry

 
A working well at Grand Bassin

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And some happy 'customers'

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And off we go to Danda
A tad bumpy

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A couple of boys along the road

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And some school girls
- must be a school nearby?

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Oh, Oh
- a snag in the plans

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More school girls,
with the snag

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Visiting the school

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Must be a good time for lunch

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The 'not-so-good' broken well
- 43' deep

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Cleaning the 'good' well and cooling the crowd

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And down goes the new well

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The completed well (#4)

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Heading home for the night

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Saturday - our last work day at Donda
The last, not-so-good, well

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Repairing it

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Our last well is done
- LWI team and community together

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Teaching hygiene to the community

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Photos around Donda
- provided by the team
Bruce - sneak attack dousing

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Bruce and friends

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Jake and another friend

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Cassava (manyok), anyone? 

The raw product

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Automated 'pounding' system

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Crowd inside the factory
- Manyok is sold by the village

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River scenes 

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Washing clothes alongside the road
Happy and hard at work

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Washing and drying at Donda

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A few more Donda sights 

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Back in Cap Haitien
- First a celebration
Looking out over Cap Haitien

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Preparing to dine

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And then some photos of Fr. Noe's house, where the January team from St. Paul's will stay

A Living Water well at Fr. Noe's compound

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Fr. Noe and Ron

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The Bernier Family

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A bedroom

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And another

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And right down the hall ...

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Outside, at night
The kitchen table

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And the kitchen

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The cross, at night

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Thanks again to Barry for these Cap Haitien photos!