After breakfast on Saturday, we decided to make a quick detour to see Misléne, a girl we met the day before. Misléne used to live in Port-Au-Prince but had relocated to a camp for IDP or Internally Displaced People. We had some solar-powered flashlights we wanted to give her. The camp is across the street from the hotel we were staying, but she wasn't home due to a death in the family. Our driver asked around and said he knew where she was, so we took an even longer detour.
As if the main roads weren't rough enough, these back roads where unbelievable. We got a tour of rural Haiti that most visitors to the country would never see. We drove through rivers where people were bathing and doing laundry. We squeezed by donkeys, oxen and pedestrians. After what seemed like an eternity, we finally arrived and boy was it worth it. Misléne's face lit up when she saw us and she was very excited to introduce her mother, grandparents and cousins.
The second ADP we visited was really another amazing experience. We had another welcoming ceremony similar to the one the day before and afterwards videotaped Sheri with more kids sponsored by our listeners. Afterwards we interviewed Sagnol about daily life in the ADP. He was very animated and excited about the work happening in the community. You can click over the bobandsheri.com/a/worldvision to see his video.
After the interview I asked Sagnol if we could get the kids to do things they normally do while at the ADP center. After he translated, the kids went wild with excitement and ran to start singing and dancing and playing basketball. There were shrieks of delight when Sheri joined them in the dancing and they loved teaching her the dance moves.
It was bittersweet leaving the ADP that day to head back to Port-Au-Prince, as this was the last stop on our tour. After another long and wild ride back to the hotel in the capital, we packed and started going through days of photos and video for the website. You can see the results now at bobandsheri.com/a/worldvision.
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