Country Info
- Port-au-Prince
- Capital
- Gourde (HTG)
- Currency
- 6,964,549
- Population
- HT
- Country Code
Port-au-Prince Slideshow
Port-au-Prince
Travel Blogs from Port-au-Prince, Haiti
You Can't See the Poverty from the Air
... dark with a few lights in the distance but the rumble of a city of 2 million that lives outside wafting up over the hills. Port-Au-prince is built around a bay, so is long and limited by the high hills on all sides. There is a lovely breeze out here and ...
Dinner in Four Languages
... turn and answer his German wife in in his native Creole.Why did we have to get ourselves into the Babel mess? Driving around Port-au-Prince, there are more NGOs and Christian groups here than you could start counting. But then they tell us that 3.8 of the ...
NOT ENOUGH TIME
I LOVE THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES. I THINK TE CHEAPER THE PLACE THE NICER THE PEOPLE. I WISH I WOULD HAVE HAD MORE TIME TO SPEND HERE. LIKE A DUMBASS THOUGH I FORGOT TO CHANGE MY WATCH SO I GOT UP AT 4AM INSTEAD OF 5 AND THE AIRPORT DIDNT ...
In the Land of Eternal Inspiration
... the people I am with and everything around me (except all the dust...that I could do without). It's my one week anniversary in Haiti and I have been smiling since the second I stepped on base. Today is no different. Woke up in my little ...
8 jours, 2ième partie : goudou goudou.
... . Un spectacle éprouvant vient de débuter devant nous, à nos pieds. Notre maison, à Morne Calvaire, à flanc de montagne surplombe Port-au-Prince. De la baie de PAP à gauche, jusqu'au lac frontière d'avec la République Dominicaine à droite, il y a ...
8 jours, 3ième partie: Soirée Zéro
... décider de nos actions. Les besoins étaient grands car, on l'a su plus tard, la plupart des hôpitaux de Port-au-Prince étaient inutilisables. Ensuite, ma tâche consisterait à monter une réponse d'urgence. Monter une réponse d'urgence veut dire ...
Slumdog NOT millionaire
... de déchets, des canaux d'encre noire, du manque d'eau potable... No money, no glory here. Le hardcore de Port-au-Prince. Mille bravos à Médecins du Monde, et aux autres ONG présentes, qui dispensent soins, éduquent les familles, et ...
Tout va bien à PAP/We're ok in PAP
... matin, à peine des nuages, pas de vent. Ça va probablement brasser dans le nord au Cap Haitien, mais pas ici. rene keeps Port-au-Prince away from its course; good for us. Normal day today here. But watch out people, it may reinforce to a grade 4 ...
Hump day
Another fun, but crazy day. I can't believe how the ER is full by 7:45 every morning and stays that way for the entire day. The number of untreated hernias alone is mind boggling, but the sad ones are the kids and especially the burns. ...
Haiti: reconstruction???
... pays a team of unemployed (cash for work program) to expose all to a site of Cité Soleil, the 'dump' of Port-au-Prince. But this site is filled too quickly, the authorities do not know where to put all the remaining debris, that decision ...
Day One
Upon our arrival in Port au Prince, I was telling myself, "Hmm... it's not so hot here". Now, keep in mind that customs/immigration is the ONLY part of the airport in PAP that is air conditioned. I was quickly brought to reality when we stepped outside ...
On est encore ok/We're still ok
... inhabituelle: on suivait un 10 roues dans une petite rue, il y avait des gars dans la boîte derrière qui lançaient des trucs au gens: des pics et des pelles pour les aider à fouiller leurs décombres... Morbide? Non, pas du tout. Pour moi, c'était le ...
Cholera, and others
... I won't speak about the French epidemiologist who just said that only the Nepalese UN peacekeepers who have been able to bring the cholera in Haiti ... Ouch! Joseph and Mary, will they find a quiet place for Jesus on the 25th of December?!? ...
Mon dernier passage à Radio-Canada
Salut troupes! Vous voulez mon avis sur ce qui se passe en Haiti? Et oui, car il s'en passe des choses en Haiti! Enfin, la radio, c'est un autre média! ...
Journée Mondiale du vih/sida: 1er décembre
... 'jean Thomas, le lundi soir 30 novembre. On parlera de l'historique de Médecins du Monde et de ses actions en vih au Viet Nam et en Haiti, et de la situation actuelle au Canada. Il y aura sûrement place à quelques histoires, aventures et anecdotes! Ce ...
Long time no see!!!
... on the Millennium Goals (http://www.cimeobjectif2015.org/ ) I will animate a workshop on the reconstruction and partnership in Haiti. It will certainly be interesting to share views, to recharge the battery of hope, and come up with ...
Na Way Pita/ See you later!
... both the professional events and the personal events of the last 10 days in just one post. And yet, as I sit in my Port Au Prince guesthouse room, with 2 fans going on high trying to calm my head for one last night of rest before flying back to the ...
Digs
Right down town (thank goodness since my ride from the airport never showed up!), the Free Methodist Church (FMC) Mission Compound had all the amenities; bedding, a kitchen, running (& hot!) water, electricity... well, most of the time anyway. ...
Last Day
... then Chicago, then take a bus to Rockford where my daughter is picking me up. Two more hours in the car and I will be home by midnight, Lord willing. Thank you for following me on my trip and praying for me. Take time to look at the photos below of Haiti. ...
Qui l'eut-crute! Who would have guessed!
... images de promenades en montagne, à 30 minutes de la maison. Avant de venir ici, dans les images que je me projettais de Haiti, non, je ne voyais pas de montagnes. Mais c'est très beau, farci de sentiers, on peut marcher partout, c'est fabuleux! Et en ...
8 jours, 5ième partie: Bureau
... 8217;est évident. Alors que Richard n’était pas dans l’urgence humanitaire, il souhaitait quand même rester à Port-au-Prince pour prendre contact avec ses propriétaires d’usine et voir ce que son organisation pourrait faire pour ...
meeting the family
After travelling about 20 hour we arrived safely but tired in PauP. Greeted by the local baggage handling entrepreneurs we where united with KC and Wilner. A quick trip in the family van brought us to the beautiful evolving campus of the St. Joseph's ...
working in Kenscogg
... there. No one paid any attention to us. After retrieving our luggage we drove to the Chances for Children orphanage in Port-au-Prince where two earlier volunteers were waiting for us to take them to Kenscoff. This orphanage is for the children who are ...
Why Did You Come Here?
... heart for a few years now, more intensely so since the earthquake last January, and I wanted to see the passionate hearts of Haiti for myself. A few years ago Haiti was first brought to my attention by the founders of Healing Haiti in White Bear Lake, ...
Our first day!
... have been here for several months and 2 FT Canadian staff. There are Haitian staff also who arrive daily from Port au Prince. The staff, patients and children here are so happy to have us. One of the security guards told me "Haitians love ...
Day one, The Trip to Mirebalais
... signals but will play DVDs.) The electricity has been on the whole time so far and the same at the airport in Port au Prince. The airport is now air conditioned. These improvements may not seem like much but they represent a huge leap in ...
Mother Teresa's Home for the Sick and Dying
... up in the burnt-orange walls, allowing the tropical afternoon sun swept across the thin forms. This was Haiti. Haiti, from the cluttered saffron streets of Port-of-Spain, through all the honking and screaming and chickens squawking, up into the craggy ...
We Definately Aren't In the US Anymore
... the jumper plane to the other side of the island (we actually stayed in Les Cayes). That is when I saw what the city of Port-au-Prince really looks like. It seemed to be an endless slum with a few larger houses up on the side of the mountain. I had never ...
L'arrivée des expats
... le 25 août). Et comme Richard n'a pas encore la voiture de fonction fournie par son travail, et bien voilà, les déplacements sont au minimum! Donc hôtel très bien, fleuri et vert, à flanc de montagnes, toujours arrosé d'une brise, sinon d’un ...