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VHP Volunteer Report:  Duchity Haiti

6/28/2019

 
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 David Casey – Volunteer Report – Duchity, Haiti – 2019
 
Trepidation was the watchword as I prepared for my 10th consecutive volunteer work-trip to Haiti this year. News reports described a country roiled with violence and turmoil. Four days before departure, two protesters were shot dead in the streets of Port-au-Prince. Another was killed the next day. Thousands of people marched, and blocked roads with burning tires and makeshift barricades. President Jovenal Moise had been implicated in a 3.7 billion dollar oil scandal and the calls for his resignation were growing in volume and vehemence. Not the best environment in which to bring my 26-year-old nephew, Daniel, or for wearing $13,000 in aid-cash “discretely” hidden under my clothes. (Report continues HERE)


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Vermont Haiti Project, Inc. is a not-for-profit 501-C3 organization:  EIN #- 27-0214989. It is the policy of Vermont Haiti Project that the organization will never compensate any directors or officers. Volunteers on our organized work trips to Haiti directly pay their own travel, lodging and incidental expenses, and do not remunerate the Vermont Haiti Project in any way for participation.

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