Summer 2007 Workshop Day 1
Hey Everyone, fir
Thank you for all your support. I made it in one piece.
Today was the first day of the workshop, it will end on saturday with a big exhibition.
This morning we had the original 20 kids that we did the workshop with last year nd we added another 35 to the program. The group in Haiti organized a great show this morning. We started t 7 am everyone wakes up early in this country at 6 am everyone is up and already having their overly sweetened and overly strong coffee. Te program started with a lottery to choose the 35 additional children, the parents were very involved as well. The kids were engaged in creating a song entitled "let's put our hands together to protect our environment." The song is recorded and I will share the video with you. The kids from last year's workshop will be involved in recycling plastic bottles and bags to create a series of objects that can be used by local vendors with stalls along the streets. They also will be working in planning a "lakou." a Lakou is a property that is like a small village where members of the same members of a family lives gneration after generation. Now Many of these lakous have become mini slums. The goal will be for them to carefully analyze one of these lakous and come up with a development plan for it.
The new kids will take the same path of the kids last year with drawing programs and intense activities on how to portect their environment and care for it. we hope to plant trees and clean the streets of the town. They will go on a campaign to tell their parents and other kids about garbage disposal and recycling.
We are very proud to say that we are consuming all our food from producers in the country right down to the cows that leaves not far from my family's property for milk (now that is green). Did I say that the cows are not given any hormones or other chemicals 100% organic milk. Only if the ladies preparing the food could put a little less sugar in the milk and the other beverages they prepare.. Lol..
Talking of being green we bought all aluminum plates,untensils and cups that we can use again and again. We did not use one single disposble plate and untensil.
We have a lot programmed for tomorrow morning and the afternoon. There are two sessions, one that runs from 7:00 AM to 1:00 PM and another that runs from 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM which will be a like an art/architecture school studio.
Until tomorrow. Right now I am using a cyber cafe to write this. Tonmorrow we should have our own service.I am unable to upload any media on this blog it is way too slow.
Take care and come back and check the blogg out adn thank you for all your suport.
Sincerely,
James-Herve Sabin
Thank you for all your support. I made it in one piece.
Today was the first day of the workshop, it will end on saturday with a big exhibition.
This morning we had the original 20 kids that we did the workshop with last year nd we added another 35 to the program. The group in Haiti organized a great show this morning. We started t 7 am everyone wakes up early in this country at 6 am everyone is up and already having their overly sweetened and overly strong coffee. Te program started with a lottery to choose the 35 additional children, the parents were very involved as well. The kids were engaged in creating a song entitled "let's put our hands together to protect our environment." The song is recorded and I will share the video with you. The kids from last year's workshop will be involved in recycling plastic bottles and bags to create a series of objects that can be used by local vendors with stalls along the streets. They also will be working in planning a "lakou." a Lakou is a property that is like a small village where members of the same members of a family lives gneration after generation. Now Many of these lakous have become mini slums. The goal will be for them to carefully analyze one of these lakous and come up with a development plan for it.
The new kids will take the same path of the kids last year with drawing programs and intense activities on how to portect their environment and care for it. we hope to plant trees and clean the streets of the town. They will go on a campaign to tell their parents and other kids about garbage disposal and recycling.
We are very proud to say that we are consuming all our food from producers in the country right down to the cows that leaves not far from my family's property for milk (now that is green). Did I say that the cows are not given any hormones or other chemicals 100% organic milk. Only if the ladies preparing the food could put a little less sugar in the milk and the other beverages they prepare.. Lol..
Talking of being green we bought all aluminum plates,untensils and cups that we can use again and again. We did not use one single disposble plate and untensil.
We have a lot programmed for tomorrow morning and the afternoon. There are two sessions, one that runs from 7:00 AM to 1:00 PM and another that runs from 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM which will be a like an art/architecture school studio.
Until tomorrow. Right now I am using a cyber cafe to write this. Tonmorrow we should have our own service.I am unable to upload any media on this blog it is way too slow.
Take care and come back and check the blogg out adn thank you for all your suport.
Sincerely,
James-Herve Sabin
posted by Rural Haiti Project at
3:45 PM
1 Comments:
Glad to have news from the Workshop!! It sounds like it will be a non-stop whirldwind of activity and learning.
Bon chance avec tout!
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