Wish I were there. Say Bon chans to everyone for me. Actually Ou dwe fè pwòp chans ou yo.
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 16:37, Timothy Falconer <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > Waveplace is headed back to Haiti to start 5 new XO pilots. > Follow my daily blogging for the next month here: > http://waveplace.org/news/ > Subscribe to my twitter feed here: > http://twitter.com/teefal/ > Like us on Facebook here: > http://www.facebook.com/waveplace > > Here's the first blog post: > With flights just bought, we're off to Haiti once again. In two weeks, two > days, we'll spend two weeks, two days, starting new pilots: two in Cite > Soleil, two in tent camps, one with a youth choir, all of them exciting. > > As usual, there's a half dozen snags. We don't yet have the laptops out of > customs, which makes me nervous as hell, though our chief partner said, > "It'll be fine, book your flights", so we did. > > Even if we get the laptops out of customs, we won't know how many of them > work until just before the pilots. Even if all are working, we still won't > have enough, which means we'll bring twenty ourselves. > > Our chief contact at JP/HRO resigned over the holiday break. We'll be > talking with her replacement on Thursday, who seems equally enthusiastic, > though major changes so close to a pilot start are always fun. > > Yesterday an impartial commission announced that Celestin (the unpopular > candidate) was actually behind Martelly (the popular one). Preval and > Celestin will react to the news after tomorrow's anniversary, which could > spark a new round of rioting. We're also hoping the runoff election will be > scheduled after our trip. > > Pretty much the only certain thing is that we're on a very, very tight > budget. We can't rent a car, we can't travel to Léogâne, we can't do much > more than walk back and forth to the school. Every dollar counts. > > But we're going. Our work paid off. How to pay the bills in March is another > question. In February, we'll make a difference. > > -- > Timothy Falconer > Waveplace Foundation > http://waveplace.org > + 1 610 797 3100 x33 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > -- Edward Mokurai (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) Cherlin Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination. http://www.earthtreasury.org/ _______________________________________________ Olpc-open mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-open
