Haiti Pages and Links

• We left August 15th, 2006, planning to return in early to mid-June, 2007.
• Hello from Haiti
• Our mailing address:

  Ivy Salomon
  Att: Andy Long
  c/o Lynx Air PO Box 407140
  Ft. Lauderdale, FL  33340-7140
  

  (mail sent to this address is flown into Cap Haitian, then picked up by individuals and brought to Ranquitte, to the home of Ivy Salomon).

• If you want to send a gift to help those in Haiti, and you want me or Anna to have control of it, please check with me first. Then route it to me via my mom, Lyn Long, and the First Presbyterian Church, 126 S Church St., Bowling Green, Ohio, 43402.

  NB: gifts made to CFI are disbursed by CFI, and cannot be assured of being under our control.

• CFI in Ranquitte
  • Current CFI webcam image (photo updated every minute)
  • Planned Trips to Ranquitte (upcoming and past)
  • Photo Albums

Projects:

• A very successful microloan program

• Composting toilets
  • Eco Sanitation
  • The Arborloo Booklet
  • ArborLoo Reference I
  • ArborLoo Reference II
• Clean Water:
  • www.wateraid.org.uk, including technological details
  • Clean Water U
• Reforestation:
  • www.afsc.org/haiti
  • Sustainable Agriculture and the Environment in the Humid Tropics (1993)
  • No Place Left to Grow
  • Reforestation and Resources
    • "Barriers of vetiver grass are a very effective way of protecting against erosion. Vetiver is a tough grass which will survive drought, fires, pests and flooding. The young leaves make good animal food. It does not compete with food crops because the roots grow down, not sideways. It produces few seeds so does not spread and become a problem. If you plant rows of Vetiver grass along the contours it will stop erosion and help rainwater to soak into the soil."
  • charcoal from sugarcane
• Solar:
  • Sunoven

Creole resources

• Kansas University Bookstore
• Educavision (search under Haiti)

Background reading:

• The Zombie Curse: A Doctor's 25-year Journey Into the Heart of the AIDS Epidemic in Haiti (Art Fournier, 2006). Art is one founder of Medishare.

Charitable Organizations worth supporting:

• Partners in Health
• Medishare

• President Preval
• Travel advisory

Geography:

• First map of Haiti
• Planning map of Haiti
• UN peacekeeper ("blue helmet") deployment map of Haiti
• Google Earth file pointing to Ranquitte and the campus of Christian Flights International

• Haiti Timeline
• Haiti in Turmoil
• An uncertain course in Haiti
• Preval says constitution allows return of Aristide
• No Place Left to Grow

General:

• Christian Flights International
• Haitian Embassy in Washington D.C.
• Nathan Beckett's Ranquitte page, including photos of Ranquitte.