We crossed to Haiti and spent a night in Fond Parisienne. Pastor Matthew spoke to us about conditions in Fond Parisienne, and his family cooked meals for us.

• We bathed in fresh streams--here's Anne. Here are Adam and Jason by the lake.
• Accomodations were on the roof of a local health center. Here's baby Ben and the morning crowd.

At Port au Prince we conversed with Father Roger Desir, translator of the Bible into Creole, MCC development workers, and others.

• Former MCC'er Carla Bluntschli (here with Kirsten, our bus driver Carlos, and Ben) made many contacts for us in Haiti, where she's lived for 17 years.

Back in the Dominican Republic, we made a trip to Salcedo, the region where the three Mirabal sisters (later assasinated by Trujillo) grew up.

• Christina is in front of the house in Ojo de Agua that the sisters grew up in.
• After their father died, their mother Chea moved into Conuco. This house (with Betsy) where they lived until their death is now a museum to the Mirabal sisters.

After Salcedo, we moved on to Jarabacoa, and had a chance to visit an organic farm of the Asociación Agrícola de los Dajao (ASADA).

• Espri munches an organic fig.
• Kirsten and Charlotte.