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Little interview

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Photograph by John Goldsmith

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strange-rs:

When they want to kill a dog, they say it’s crazy. — Haitian proverb
Like most everyone else, I was appalled at the destruction of the January 12th earthquake, by the slowness of the response. I was lucky enough to randomly run into some people who went shortly after to help clear rubble. All I knew about Haiti was its history as the first country to be founded after a successful slave revolt, making it the second-oldest republic in the hemisphere. I “knew” of President Aristide and the coup-d’etats, and how everyone wanted him back. I “knew” it was hell on earth located in paradise. I knew nothing. I landed in Haiti in July of 2010 with some friends volunteering to rebuild a single old woman’s house, outside of the NGO bubble, in the middle of a community trying to get by to the best of their ability. I made friends, took a leave of absence at my job and moved back just 3 weeks after returning. What you see here is people who have moved on from the disaster, though it obviously lingers in the rubble-strewn landscape and the subconscious. Hundreds of thousands of people are still displaced in tent camps, a cholera epidemic is still unchecked. Yet, for most people these things are not part of life on day-to-day basis. Other things come to the forefront. Putting food on the table, hustling, looking for work, school, getting married and funerals, a dance, a day at the beach, a budding relationship, a fistfight. They deal with the catastrophe the way they’ve dealt with every other catastrophe — they way that all humans deal with things like that. Through traditions and prayer, parties and sex, and quiet moments of contemplation. Through rage, sadness and laughter.

View it on strange.rs - When they want to kill a dog, they say it’s crazy

strange-rs:

When they want to kill a dog, they say it’s crazy. — Haitian proverb

Like most everyone else, I was appalled at the destruction of the January 12th earthquake, by the slowness of the response. I was lucky enough to randomly run into some people who went shortly after to help clear rubble. All I knew about Haiti was its history as the first country to be founded after a successful slave revolt, making it the second-oldest republic in the hemisphere. I “knew” of President Aristide and the coup-d’etats, and how everyone wanted him back. I “knew” it was hell on earth located in paradise. I knew nothing. I landed in Haiti in July of 2010 with some friends volunteering to rebuild a single old woman’s house, outside of the NGO bubble, in the middle of a community trying to get by to the best of their ability. I made friends, took a leave of absence at my job and moved back just 3 weeks after returning.

What you see here is people who have moved on from the disaster, though it obviously lingers in the rubble-strewn landscape and the subconscious. Hundreds of thousands of people are still displaced in tent camps, a cholera epidemic is still unchecked. Yet, for most people these things are not part of life on day-to-day basis. Other things come to the forefront. Putting food on the table, hustling, looking for work, school, getting married and funerals, a dance, a day at the beach, a budding relationship, a fistfight. They deal with the catastrophe the way they’ve dealt with every other catastrophe — they way that all humans deal with things like that. Through traditions and prayer, parties and sex, and quiet moments of contemplation. Through rage, sadness and laughter.

View it on strange.rs - When they want to kill a dog, they say it’s crazy

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Source: strange.rs