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A collection of information, questions, links and references related to the Vermont Haiti Project and involvement by Mary Alice Osborne and Terry King.
PHOTO ALBUMS OF FEBRUARY 2016 TRIP
- ===At Despagne's and travel to Duchity===
- ===At the Vocational School===
- Building Construction - Tom Tailer
- ===The Market Day in Duchity===
- ===A Walk to the Mountain===
- ===PreSchool Library - Mary Alice===
- ===Soccer Team and Game - Nick===
MORE to Come!
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LINKS TO PAGES:
- Schools and PreSchoolLibrary
- SolarPower
- Welding Classes
- Communications: Radio - CellPhone- Wifi - Internet: Duchity - Haiti
- Travel - Logistics - Shipping
- MAPS
- PHOTOS from the Media
- Questions for Kimball,Tom,Beth,Others
Vermont Haiti Project:
Vermont Haiti Project - Home
Vermont Haiti Project, Inc. - Facebook
Vermont Haiti Project - YouTube
Vermont Haiti Project, Inc.
63 Maple Leaf Lane
Shelburne, VT 05482
? Should this be updated? http://www.guidestar.org/organizations/27-0214989/vermont-haiti-project.aspx
CONTACTS:
NAME |
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CELL-PHONE |
HOME-PHONE |
MAILING ADDRESS |
Jean Despagne Felix |
509-3650-3567 |
Delmas 60======Imp Petit 22======Port-au-Prince | ||
Philippe Decossard |
1-509-31424767 |
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Tom Tailer |
tbtailer@hotmail.com |
879-9486 |
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Elizabeth Tailer |
tbtailer@hotmail.com |
======879-9486 |
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Kimball Butler |
kimballvt@yahoo.com |
802-989-3452 |
802-453-4213 |
237 White Lane======Bristol, Vt 05443 |
Donna Thomas |
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Gary Beckwith |
802-434-4939 |
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Mary Alice Osborne |
maryalice@terryking.us |
802-917-3736 |
802-439-5503 |
152 Colby Rd.======W. Topsham VT 05086 |
Terry King |
terry@terryking.us |
802-917-3735 |
802-439-5503 |
Despagne in POP:
Jean Despagne Felix
Delmas 60, Imp Petit 22, Port-au-Prince
phone number: 509-3650-3567
The Vocational School in Duchity:
Ecole Vocationnelle Jean Despagne Felix
Avenue Ducase #6
Duchity, Pestel, Haiti
(Francky Polyte, Director)
http://garybeckwith.net/haiti/ Installed Solar Panels 802-434-4939
GOOGLE TRANSLATE
About Duchity:
original name: Duchity
geographical location: Grand Anse, Haiti, Central America
geographical coordinates: 18° 26' 0" North, 73° 54' 0" West
18.435038 N -73.901006 E Lat-Long
616377.58 2038572.12 UTM
OnlineMap: http://www.geographic.org/geographic_names/name.php?uni=-95341&fid=2260&c=haiti
Google Maps: https://www.google.com/maps/@18.4346532,-73.8991632,2055m/data=!3m1!1e3
Travel Considerations:
http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/destinations/traveler/none/haiti
https://www.educavision.com/about.us.php
"Community Room" ??
? (What would the Community Room be like? Where? How? )
This may be a place for the community to:
- Recharge Cellphones/Laptops/Tablets/LED lights
- House the pre-school Library, host Story Times etc
- House the Community Radio Station "Studio"
General Haiti Links: Other organizations / Information / News:
https://challengesnews.com/ Haiti Weekly Magazine
http://haiti.mit.edu/ MIT Haiti project
http://www.haitilibre.com/en/ Haiti News | 7/7 on Haitilibre.com
http://www.thehaitiplunge.org/index.php?page=our-history Other small village works
http://www.haitianproject.org/updates
http://www.haiti155.org/portfolio/haiti-sans-lumiere-light-up-haiti/ Electrical / Engineer
Money-Currency:
Haitian Gourde
| 1.00 USD |
= |
58.3400 HTG |
? HowTo access US funds in Haiti
? Best way to exchange for Gourde
http://www.digicelhaiti.com/en/about/news/mon-cash-la-nouvelle-marque-didentit "Mon Cash" Digicel cellphone company digital wallet
WHO'S-WHO (Ki moun ki se ki moun ki) :
Donna Thomas, of South Burlington, began volunteering with the local non-profit organization Vermont Haiti Project(VHP) in March 2006 when she participated in a volunteer group trip to Haiti. She was completely drawn into their mission and currently serves as the Board Chair for this volunteer run organization which has served a rural Haitian mountain region north of Port-au-Prince for many years.
Terry King and Mary Alice Osborne: live in a log cabin in the woods in Topsham, Vermont, surrounded by many computers and electronics and woodworking tools. They collaborate in developing educational software and materials, and writing http://ArduinoInfo.Info
Mary Alice has worked as a bus driver, costume designer, art teacher, computer coordinator, technology teacher, and library designer and has teaching degrees in Elementary Education and Special Education from the University of Vermont, and a Masters Degree in Information Science from Syracuse. She was the Director of the SPARK! talent development program and Library Media Specialist at Waits River Valley School in rural Vermont. For three years in North Africa, she was the Upper School Librarian at the American Cooperative School of Tunis, and for two years in China she was the Head Librarian at the Shekou International School. For two years she was the Head Librarian of the K-12 schools at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia. She has designed new physical libraries and library programs at these overseas schools.
Terry has designed radio stations, recording studios, broadcast equipment, intelligent machines and special computer languages for IBM, and has worked as a broadcast journalist covering elections, fires, riots and Woodstock.
He is now 'retired' and writing about Arduino / Embedded systems (http://ArduinoInfo.Info) and running http://YourDuino.com with Mary Alice Osborne and their friend from China, Jun Peng. Since 'retirement' Terry has lived and taught in Africa, China, the Middle East and Italy. Now he is 'home again' in rural Vermont and working 40+ hours a week on YourDuino.com, firewood cutting, woodworking and Electronics.
MISC TEMPORARY LINKS:
http://hackaday.com/2016/01/22/the-toy-maker/ MakerSpace
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fk8OYHcHBX8&index=5&list=PLkRT6sInhvHVb96gl-uxn2LxBqEL4Iv9A