A Second Glance: Updates on Dunord, Esther, Satini, and Noel

After I ventured to Haiti in 2017, I wrote stories featuring four farmers who lost their homes to a hurricane: Dunord, Esther, Satini, and Noel. When I interviewed them in Paroty, a rural community on the hillside above Jeremie, they were struggling to survive, living in jury-rigged shacks next to the skeletons of their old…

Dunord’s Story

To help you feel what it's like to survive in Hurricane Matthew's aftermath, I'll tell the stories of four farmers: Dunord, Esther, Satini, and Noel. Today, I'll introduce you to the first. Meet Dunord Dunord is a character. We interviewed him beside his hurricane-wrecked house—stripped to almost nothing but a frame—next to the temporary shacks…