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| 10 Principles to live by for the week...and always <3 |
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| The Pier in Monte Cristi, Dominican Republic. Beautiful. |
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| I taught this Mom how to do some home-stretching for her 14-year old daughter with several congenital deformities. Their gratitude was indescribable. |
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| Individuals walking back into Haiti after going to the open market in Dajabon. Yes, those are live chickens he is carrying. And yes, the woman on the right is barefoot. |
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| Men pushing a wagon of ice across the Dominican-Haitian boarder. This was the largest wagon seen, I also saw smaller amounts being pushed across in wheel-barrels. Most was covered in sawdust to try and keep it from melting in the 85* weather. Most of the individuals did not have shoes. Some did not even have shirts. |
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| a beautiful flower outside the PT clinic in Mao, Dominican Republic |
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| Haitians walking across the boarder into the Dominican Republic and the Dajabon Market |
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| The PT team who worked at the Mao clinic with some of the staff there. (A second PT team worked in a clinic in Monte Cristi) |
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| Occupational Therapy students and Dr. Maria Colmer, OT, work to make splints for a patient in Mao, Dominican Republic |
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| Me, working with a young man who had been hit by a motor cycle. |
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| View from my first plane ride- the DR is getting close! |
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| A young boy paints El Morro at an art school in Monte Cristi, DR |
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| In the evening, we played with local children. This group of girls were amazing...and one evening we played with a bunch of tennis balls (multiple, made up games!) for over an hour! |
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| The clock tower in Monte Cristi, made and designed by the same individual who designed the Eiffel Tower. |
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These three links are to videos of my time at the Dominican-Haitian boarder on the morning of March 9, 2012.
The
boarder is open on Friday mornings, allowing for the Haitians to come
and gather the supplies they will need for the following week from the
open market in Dajabon.
The video does not do justice to the
magnitude of poverty I witnessed nor to the intense desperation on so
many faces, or the experience itself.
Dominican- Haitian Boarder, Dajabon Market, March 9, 2012
Dajabon Market, March 9, 2012
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