If you look at the map you can see that Haiti and Dominican Republic share one island. Haiti is French speaking and DR is Spanish. DR has one of the fastest…
Haiti signage
One of my favorite visuals in Port au Prince are the paintings outside barber shops / beauty salons. …
DAY 4: Launching bamboo reforestation in Haiti
The longest journeys start with the first step. So it was that today, we took a first step toward what we hope will be a successful initiative to launch bamboo reforestation in Haiti. CO2 Bambu’s strategy is to launch Guadua…
Day 3: bamboo workshop
Today I drive with Regine to attend Kevins workshop on building with bamboo that he is offering for NGOs and anyone else interested. Kevin is a specialist in building with natural…
Day 2: Haiti by motorbike
Ben has his first set of meetings here, starting with the green architect, Regine. She has “won” a fairly large contract, which she and Ben initiated almost 6 months ago, after his first trip. It is funded by a German…
Day 1: Drive to Haiti from Dominican Republic ~ border crossing.
We leave Dominican Republic at 6.30 am for the drive across the border, into Haiti. Armed with lots of bottled water and our box of baby bamboo plants, we set off. We have so far managed to bring the plants…
Poste Rojo
Poste Rojo is a very cool, one of a kind TREE HOUSE hostel about twenty minutes outside Granada. Built around and IN huge trees, Poste Rojo is perched on the side of Volcano Mombacho with an awesome view, especially at…
Dominican Republic ~ First stop.
We have invested too much time, energy and money in developing a position for CO2 Bambu in Haiti to be deterred by the trifecta that we face, namely 1) The pathetic lack of progress in the NGO world with regard…