Raymond hired 20 Haitian to build terraces which he had observed in Tibet. He would hire them in 2-week intervals. A person would need to volunteer to help on the Friday and Saturday of the previous week to qualify to get his name in the hat for the next 2 weeks to work for a dollar a day. At times they would have 300 people volunteering for the job. They used a pick, shovel, and hand level to build the terraces.
This bridge is 135 feet long and is on the same road as the first bridge, so usage is similar. This design was made for a gravel deck which makes it so that animals will cross. A commercial bridge installer who is a customer of Rapid Span was the installer with his crew, for free….
The land has been denuded of trees which were converted to charcoal. Raymond started a nursery to repopulate the area. It is noted that the area around the nursery has a lot of large trees, with some 60 ft tall and 20 inches in diameter. They are reluctant to harvest the trees because they look…
Hurricane Matthew took off many of their grass roofs. Hope for Haiti replaced 175 roofs with metal roofing in a cottage roof design. Hope for Haiti had no say in who got new roofs. They needed to carry their water 2-3 miles and up 2500 ft of elevation. So, water was precious. In that community…
Hope for Haiti built a road into 3 communities that had no auto service. So, they had no health care. You lived or you died. Like Raymond said he didn’t think you could find a Band-Aid in those communities. Hope for Haiti built an airstrip for the large new hospital which gave the incoming doctors…
Raymond observed the lack of roads hampered the flow of commerce. Raymond found an old Cat in the bush which he secured the right to its usage though his Senator friend. The steering crutches and brakes did not work. With the lack of the capacity to steer, while backing up dragging the blade, he had…
On one 10- mile section of road, on the original trial, the travelers had to cross the river 64 times but with the new road that Hope for Haiti built, they only needed to cross the river 2 times but if the river was up, they couldn’t cross at all. A donor provided 2 bridges,…
