By: Rowen Jin, Project Manager; World Water Relief Sitting cramped between the driver and Solo on the van to Port-Au-Prince, I complained again, “Twop cho.” Too hot. Sweat poured down my back. Thoughts ran through my head about the miserable week I have had in Mirebalais – Town ATM machine is down again? Why is …
As the Executive Director of World Water Relief, I am very proud of our in-country team and the work they are accomplishing in the Dominican Republic and Haiti. I just returned from a visit to our projects in the Dominican Republic with Board members, Clay Sparrow and Ben Seidl, volunteer Vanitha Sivarajan and my husband, …
Days 10-12 After spending the night at the Partners in Health headquarters, we awoke early in the morning and said goodbye to the staff, promising to be back on Thursday with two more units for PIH operations. We jumped into the vehicle and hit the road back to Santo Domingo, a mild nine hours of …
I’d like to begin this new phase of the blog by stating what a joy and pleasure it has been to work for such a strong, passionate group of people. Over the past three weeks this organization has manned an effort that any normal NGO would need 20 employees to match. And that’s not an …
We awoke at 2:30 a.m. after one hour of sleep in Barahona. I had been in touch with Josue Cabellos with US AID the evening before, and he informed us that we could cross the border with a UN convoy that was organizing at 5 a.m. and would probably leave at 6 a.m. As we …
We awoke at 7 a.m. to frequent text messages alerting us to the new 6.1 earthquake that had occurred in Haiti just hours before. We immediately tried to assess how this might affect our plans. Nobody that we talked to in Barahona felt the quake, and the news out of Port au Prince seemed underwhelming, …
You know I’m not really sure that I’ve ever really explained what we are doing here. When I started this thing I thought I was writing for just a few people, all of them well-versed in our objectives, but I think that there may be some out there who don’t know what we are trying …
End of Day 3 So I just reread the blog from yesterday to remind myself where I was, and I have to say that there was some atrocious use of the comma on more than one occasion. Wow. Sorry about that. My English professors in college used to say that I had a love affair …
I’ve heard from the group back home that maybe more than just my mom has read this thing, so I was immediately a little self conscious and felt compelled to give the following syntax and grammar disclaimer. If you notice the mistakes or keep find yourself saying, “Is this guy really a doctor?,” please don’t …
We stretched out the kinks from the night’s sleep in JFK and boarded our plane to Santo Domingo. Ben and I occupied the very rear of the jet, spread out and grabbed some sleep. Our motto to this point has been “to eat when you can and sleep when you can”, and so far we’ve …