The morning breaks in Haiti.
I enjoy living with no clock. Everyone wakes up at dawn whether or not any alarm is set: roosters stir and echo across the island. I wonder which one is first.
It is a special day to visit Madame Bernard on the island of Ile-a-Vache. And visit the incredible children in the orphanage there.
Each time a new visitor comes with me, I am happy that the profundity of the situation is not lost.
One nun – Sister Flora – cares for the 71 children here with an almost entirely volunteer staff. Perhaps this would not be as challenging given these were the average child at an average orphanage.
Of the 71 children at the orphanage, only 7 do not have some sort of disability.
This is an essay on Sister Flora’s children I did here a few years ago if you’d like to see more of what’s going on here.
NOTE: If by any chance you’d like to contribute any help to Sister Flora and her mission on Ile-a-Vache, this can be arranged. Contact me at the address you’ll find on my portfolio website.
So, after a little time here, we moved on.
We headed back to the market.
And headed out to the islands.
These are the island fishermen featured in a few photos before.
I love the sea.
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I’m unsure how much work it takes to exist as these fishermen. I just know that these are some of the hardest working people on the planet. An entire family working to exist. They don’t simply work to make money then go to the grocery store and buy food, but they work to exist entirely from the sea and the island on which they live.
This is the life of the Haitian fishermen.
And this is where I spent this week.
Stay tuned…
-Noah D.
