Our New Toilets!
Mon, Feb 8, 2010
Thursday 4 February 2010:
The Canadian navy has visited us several times this week, to come and scout the need for toilets. We do need that very much, so they located a good spot across the street from us and marked the area. The next day a big bulldozer came by to dig the hole.
The day after, today they came back to install our new toilets. There is no room for it, so we will find a solution for that, because we do have a lot of rain these days. The hole is also not very deep, it is just a temporary solution they said. I think our kids will fill it up in no time 
Tags: abandoned, bulldozer, canadian navy, fundraiser, Haiti, rain, temporary solution, toilets
Wow! Those are ‘navy’?! They look like children on a field trip. (I mean that in the best possible way) Good for them!
It really is a whole different feel when they don’t walk around with firearms and an attitude, huh?
OK this is getting embarrassing! Still no US military or govt. organizations? WTF!
Yes Rain they are Canadian Navy and the sweetest guys, really!! They do were guns though on their belts. I did some questioning around to know more about the US presence, and what I learned was that Jakmel is in the hands of the Canadians, and PaP is in US hands. The Canadian flag is flying in the wind at our local airport. Local word on the street has is that Haiti has been taken over by the US. Some Haitians talk about occupation by the US because they have PAP………..
I couldn’t see the guns in the photos unless I looked really hard. They still look pretty young and harmless compaired the our military who can be downright intimidating and scary.
I guess that makes sense to divide up the territory in order to consolidate services. Still I would like to see a blanket of US support everywhere, Haiti is not that big! The US military budget is larger than the whole world’s military budgets combined. We should be able to be everywhere.
I am not sure that an ‘occupation’ is that far fetched, it is our history, and we cannot escape that! Logistically speaking though, Im sure the main priority is maintaining some semblance of order while relief efforts take place. In order to do that, it probably has to look like an occupation.
Thanks for checking for me…it’s been bugging me. I looked on the military website. They’ve done a lot of marketing & PR, but I couldn’t see any real solid action plan.