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…

A Peculiar Roadblock

By the afternoon of my fifth day in Haiti, I envied motorcyclists. That morning, our team's SUVs bounced along the rutted, blind-corner-filled, un-railed mountain road from Jeremie to Leogane. On the way to Jeremie, this road had given us a flat tire—so how could it be any worse? Now, I laugh at that question. We…

Noel’s Story

Out of all the farmers I interviewed in Jeremie, Noel seemed the most desperate. And given her story, it makes sense... Noel's Tale Already a widow when Hurricane Matthew slammed Haiti, Noel had been left to provide for a daughter and two sons. She had been able to make a decent living selling fruit from…