This summer, my wife and I travelled around the world. We began the trip with a fellowship in Haiti and the Dominican Republic, interviewing, filming, and photographing entrepreneurs who have received microloans from lenders like you and me through Kiva.org. We met many inspiring people, survived two hurricanes, dodged political trouble on election day, and drank a lot of cold Prestige to combat the intense heat and humidity.
We spent the first weeks in Port-au-Prince interviewing several entrepreneurs who used Kiva loans to rebuild and expand their businesses after the 2010 earthquake. Then we trekked down to Les Anglais, a remote town on the coast where Kiva lenders helped connect 400 homes to EarthSpark’s new solar-electric power grid. Later, we went up north to Cap Haïtien where we met a group of women who run a sewing collective. And while we were documenting castor oil production by the recipient of one of Kiva’s largest loans, we got to be a part of the press corps as Chelsea Clinton, Donna Shalala, and an entourage from the Clinton Foundation toured the production facility.
In addition to our work as Kiva Media Fellows, my wife and I were lucky to meet some new friends from other organizations doing great work in Haiti, like Ted and Rebecca in Port-au-Prince. Rebecca is a midwife who is starting a program to help lower the infant mortality rate in remote areas of Haiti accessible only by motorcycle. Ted runs the Haiti mission of an international relief and development organization, and I was able to tag along with him to photograph of some of their projects, like a school and nutrition program outside of Port-au-Prince, chlorine generation for clean drinking water in a drought-stricken mountain village, and a group of moto-taxi drivers who are trying to get new higher-quality helmets.
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