Haiti 20th-23rd

At the moment i am sitted in the offices of an organization called Food for the Poor - an organization well know in Haiti for its work.

I am currently in this wonderful country checking on what you might refer to as project feasibility. Haiti is considered to be the poorest country in the southern hemisphere and many struggle to earn a living through means that are not necessarily friendly to their bodies. One of such ways is how people use wooden carts with car tyres to get commodities around the city. You would be amazed at how much people can carry on such a cart. Bicycles Against Poverty project is haiti is to devise means or perhaps try to adopt a bicycle cart that would be as useful as the current cart being used.

With this project comes many challenges but hopefully we will successed in the midst of everything. Not so long ago, i ran into a man who was carrying the top part of the car on his cart. Which was basically a the whole frame of the car and obviosly without the engine, tyres and a few other things. One thing that they dont know is home much this weight affects their backs and life span in turn. Most of them are obviously concerned about earning the daily bread rather than looking in the future which is perfectly reasonable if you live in conditions as harsh as they do.

Anyway, we are hoping we will be able to develop a cart they they can adopt - one that is not back breaking but good enough to carry a good amount of weight besides, the more they carry the more they earn.

We might have to have some educational seminars on the issue because it will be impossible to change the way things are done unless people understand the consequences of how things are being done currently.

So, this is what we are up against - changing a tradition through which people make money - but hopefully giving them a better alternative

keep posted for developments
Muyambi