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…

Esther’s Story

If you've lost both your parents, shouldered the responsibility of providing for your ten siblings, then lost your house and crops in a hurricane, then replanted your crops only to have them killed in a drought—if you're still clinging to hope, you must be strong. Meet Esther Strong is precisely the impression Esther (the farthest…