We made it! After a 3 hour flight from Boston, I met Kelsey in the Miami airport and we boarded together for the flight to Haiti. We couldn’t have been in the air for more than 30 minutes, it felt like, before we touched ground in Port-au-Prince. Luckily, we’d met up with another group traveling to … Continue reading
On Monday we headed out at 7:45 and gathered at the St. Bernard Project home-base for a brief orientation before driving over to our work site. We were given the ever-famous New Orleans Mardi Gras beads with a “Women’s Week” medallion attached and took our seats on the wooden benches. They talked to us about … Continue reading
Flying out of Boston to New Orleans this morning from Women’s Rebuild Week with the St. Bernard Project! So excited to see these lovely ladies later today and start rebuilding tomorrow. On the agenda? Do some good-old-fashioned manual labor. Research the history of tourism in New Orleans in the public libraries Special Collections. Celebrate my … Continue reading
We left for Haiti on May 14: my 21st birthday. While many kids my age spend this birthday drinking more than their body weight in alcohol, bent over a toilet in a strange bar or unaware of how they even celebrated, I will remember every moment of mine. Getting off the plane in Port-au-Prince people … Continue reading
Today I returned from a week-long trip to Haiti . I can’t even begin to articulate what my time at the orphanage and school has meant to me and all that I’ve learned from the kids at Proje Espwa so I’ll just leave you with a couple of photos and a familiar tale for today. … Continue reading
