30339: Minsky: (information) Haiti Support Project's Milot project (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Tequila Minsky <tminsky@ix.netcom.com>

An American  group is supporting  Milot by building a center that will
have classrooms, computer lab,  offices. In October they visited the
north and unveiled architectural renderings for a multipurpose center
they are supporting to build.

excerpt from Discover Haiti Through Its Culture

http://www.heritagekonpa.com/
Discover%20haiti%20through%20%20its%20great%20culture.htm
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This recently completed trip last fall touched deep into the
consciousness of its participants. Travelers from New York and
Miami--Haitians who hadn't been home in a very long time and
African-American activists introduced to Haiti for the first
time--visited Cape Haitien, its environs, and some overland cities.

It was on October 5 that Ron Daniels, of the Haiti Support Project of
the Institute of the Black World, and a group of 50 travelers including
pastors and politicians landed in PAP to a press conference. The
Minister of Haitians Living Abroad greeted them. By three chartered
planes, the group flew north.

Visiting The Citadelle was a major focus and at Milot, the city at the
bottom of the mountain, the group unveiled architectural renderings for
a multipurpose center they are supporting to build.

On another day, the group split up: those looking toward possible
investment attended a business meeting while others visited Bwa Caimon,
the site of the vodou ceremony (mid-August, 1794) that helped trigger
the slave uprising that led to the Haitian revolution.

A bus returned the group to Port-au-Prince, with a beach stop along the
way and a visit with a Gonnaives women's group. Back in PAP that
evening, they attended a reception at the U.S. Ambassador's house.

Before they left Haiti the next afternoon, they visited the Museum of
the Heroes and had breakfast with the President. Obviously, this was a
purposeful red-carpet trip.

Coordinator Ron Daniels sees this trip with a highlight at The
Citadelle, symbol of Black Freedom, as being very important to the
African-American community. Plans are for more like-minded travelers to
join together on another trip later this year.