After you have worked in Haiti you will hear yourself and others saying - "This is Haiti (TIH)".
It isn't that you don't know that you are in Haiti it has more to do with how things work in Haiti.
For example: we shipped a container in February of 2010 and it finally got out of customs so we could unpack it in December of 2010.
Why?
There is a never ending battle in the saga of containers coming into Haiti.
Most of the saga is because of what we will call "fees".
Hidden fee's, not so hidden fee's and just more...TIH type things.
When we left for India I said to Dan I promise you the fabric will finally be out of customs just about the time we finally get back from our trip after I have been waiting for it for months.
Sure enough we got home on a Thursday and on Tuesday I got an email saying, yes, come the container was out.
Yet, with all of that I have to say, I love it when a plan finally falls into place and we can get tons of hard work done and work we did.
Lots of us for a week.
It took a lot of sorting, re-sorting, packing and un-packing but it is finally done. We have fabric for sewing school, the sewing ladies who sew outside of the program and the ladies that sew inside of the program plus some.
We should be set for several months.
The great thing about this fabric is that it is very different and will allow us to come up with some new and creative things we haven't been able to make in the past.
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