Our little group was on our way to Haiti. I couldn't believe I was going to a third world country on a mission trip. Something I wanted to do, but never had a chance until now. Some of my friends couldn't believe I was going since a major earthquake had hit Haiti just two months prior & the country was still trying to recover.
Flying into the Port Au Prince
Port Au Price, very crowded city
Customs - a huge tin hanger. This is our luggage being piled up. Bob & Sharon had hired some Haitians to grab our luggage & put it in a pile. All of our luggage had a bright orange or pink yarn hair ribbon tied to it, so the Haitians would know which luggage to grab. Of course Bob & some of the other guys on the team were helping them.
Some of my team members coming through customs. Just a little wooden, three wall partition, hand the person there your passport & other paper work, get stamped & walk through. It went very fast.
As we exited the airport the first thing we saw was this wall/fence. It was pack on the outside of Haitians wanting to work, looking to carry your luggage or anything else they could do to earn money.
This is a Haitian taxi or Tat Tat. The bed of the pickup was packed with people & we even saw some with people riding on top and/or hanging on the outside. I thought driving in L.A. was crazy, this was insane. So glad I was not driving (I love to drive).
Vendors outside the airport
Outside the airport a food vendor, carrying his items on his head.
As we left the airport, the first thing we saw was the tent cities. These belong to the military United States & the United Nations
These belong to the people. You can see more military tents in the background. These were set up by the government & other organizations.
Then as they ran out of the regular tents, we started to see man made tent cities. Tents made of what ever the people could find to make a tent.
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