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Rob's photos: Fanfare
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Another Sunday afternoon in Limonad, another fanfare. Parade. This time, the celebration was for fête des mères. Mother's day - which is a big event in Haiti. Celebrating mother's day with cola and sandwiches at a party in the baptist church in Limonad. This is what is known in Creole as a pakèt ti moun. Posted by Rob at 8:31 pm. Postcards from the Caribbean. Life in Haiti: The Graduation. Day-to-day life in Baghdad. Playing the Trump Card. Tom Stoppard on freedom of speech. How to write about Africa.
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Rob's photos: June 2006
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Here's a better idea. I have now started posting my photos here. It makes them look nicer than on this website. Posted by Rob at 12:01 am. Taking the long view. Jared Diamond's recent book Collapse. That they were only impoverishing themselves by failing to look after what they had? It was a cold and wet day, and he needed to make a fire to keep his house dry and his children warm. This was not a man who could afford to think in the long term. Posted by Rob at 11:07 pm. Coming across the remains of a bar...
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Rob's photos: February 2006
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Haiti is full of artists and artisans: this country is famous for music, dance, painting, and an amazing variety of crafts. Here are a few photos of products made in the workshop of Haitian Personalized Mahogany Inc (HPMI), a small business set up by two colleagues of mine, Nelson and Elysée. Nelson keeping his hand in. Nelson started as an apprentice in his father's workshop, and established HPMI to continue the family tradition. Auguste, one of the four artisans employed in the workshop.
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Rob's photos: Microeconomics
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This is for people who have asked me to explain what it is I am doing in Haiti. I work for Fonkoze. A microfinance institution. In principle, Fonkoze is just like any other bank, providing credit, savings and other financial services - but the difference is that Fonkoze's services are targeted at helping poor people in rural areas. Fonkoze's credit clients are mostly market women (or ti machann. Elusnie serving Mme Dateus at the Fonkoze branch in Fòlibète. The Fonkoze branch in Twoudinò. Life in Haiti: T...
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Rob's photos: Here's a better idea....
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Here's a better idea. I have now started posting my photos here. It makes them look nicer than on this website. Posted by Rob at 12:01 am. Taking the long view. Postcards from the Caribbean. Life in Haiti: The Graduation. Day-to-day life in Baghdad. Playing the Trump Card. Tom Stoppard on freedom of speech. How to write about Africa. Haiti after the Elections: Challenges for Préval's First 100 Days. What was really going on in March 2003? Better use a simple code. Don't try this unless you are British.
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Rob's photos: Hot and cold
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A few pictures I've taken during my travels over the last two weeks. Paintings for sale in the street in Pòtoprens. Here a band is making its way down from one of Pòtoprens's suburbs, to join the party in the Champs de Mars. The musicians themselves are almost hidden by the crowd of supporters - you can just see some of the brass instruments in the background. Clouds over the Caribbean. Change of scene: snow and winter sun in Bratislava. Bratislava, probably the most peaceful capital city in the world.
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Rob's photos: March 2006
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Market day in Limonad, the small town which is now my home in Haiti. Exchanging the morning gossip. The "taxi moto" and the market-woman carrying her goods on her head are ever-present symbols of rural Haiti. The other white guy who looks like you"). Haitian people often tell me that all blan. S (which can mean either "white people" or "foreigners") look alike. Limonad is on the main road between Okap (or Cap-Haïtien. Music which continued for most of Sunday night. Unfortunately nobody was able to ex...
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Rob's photos: May 2006
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Another Sunday afternoon in Limonad, another fanfare. Parade. This time, the celebration was for fête des mères. Mother's day - which is a big event in Haiti. Celebrating mother's day with cola and sandwiches at a party in the baptist church in Limonad. This is what is known in Creole as a pakèt ti moun. Posted by Rob at 8:31 pm. Postcards from the Caribbean. A few photos which have cheered me up during a difficult couple of weeks. Children in Akil Samdi. Sin) to do it. Late-afternoon sun at Boutilliers,...
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Rob's photos: November 2005
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I spent a few days this week in the central plateau, meeting Fonkoze clients and promoting a new program. Mme Charles in her boutik. In Tomond market. Credit from Fonkoze has helped her to expand her business. Doucette, Fonkoze's alfa. Literacy program) supervisor in Ench, gives me a lesson. Mme Marcellus, a Fonkoze client, outside her house in Tomond. Claudine, a local supervisor for Fonkoze, introduces the kredi kay. Home improvement loan) program to clients in Kas. Posted by Rob at 7:48 pm.
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Rob's photos: Yon ti flann
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A few photos taken while wandering ( flannen. Ing) around Limonad on Good Friday evening. Paulon, Isabel and Shayna in the yard outside their house. The pile of tyres they are sitting on is actually the top of the family's well. Dominoes. The guy on the right has clothes pegs clipped to his face as a penalty: each game you lose results in one peg on the face. Karate practice, on a rooftop at dusk. Madame Eman, the best restauranteur in Limonad. Here she is serving mayi moulen. Posted by Rob at 6:32 pm.
