First Week

Hello Everyone,
It has been an excellent and busy week here as Meredith and I are setting up are stay in the DR and Haiti with our invaluable friend and adviser John Hayden.
Its Monday afternoon and we are writing from Puerto Plata in Northern, D.R. We arrived last Wednesday into Santiago and the next morning took a bus to the border of Haiti, where we were picked up by our friends in Terrier Rouge (TR). On the way to TR we stopped at the Ministry of Agriculture for the NE zone in Haiti and was introduced to the director and other staff there. We then spent a lovely evening, night, and morning in TR, our future home. We toured the cooperative farm of IDDH (the organisation that Peter will be working with) and two clinics in town, with who we are currently trying to arrange for Meredith to work with (we need authorization from the ministry of health).
We then traveled to Cap Haitian in the NW to attempt to make contact with an NGO developing composting toilet technology, we couldn´t find them but, we did buy a phone so we should be able to talk to you all while in Haiti. The next day we traveled back to the D.R. and have spent one night each in Batay Libertad near Santiago, and Batay Siman near Puerto Plata. We will likely spend most of our next two or three weeks in Batay Libertad, but will visit Batay Siman at least once more. Stayed tuned for more news, and hopefully some commentary. Lots of Love to all of you, Miss you all lots,

Peter and Meredith