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Toilets for Tilory - One Year Old
Hi One-Truckers, my name is Betty. I'm an officer of One Truck, but until recently I had not seen for myself the work that One Truck has done. In late November, Cosmo and I travelled to Tilory. Our goal was to deliver supplies and assess the progress of the compostable toilets. Let me say first that asthetically, Haiti is not at all what I expected. Parts of it look like a sort of lord-of-the-ringsy tropical Vermont. Haiti is beautiful. I have to say, driving to the village, I was nervous. Cosmo had worked very hard on building the toilets and educating the community, but it was ...
A Month of Delay
After a month of delay, One Truck was able to revisit our "toilets for tilory" sanitation project in Haiti, North-East. We met with our Givelove sanitation team partners to assess the existin...
A year and... change?
So after almost 13 months not much seems to have changed in Port Au Prince. There certainly are alot more white NGOvehicles crowding the already teeming streets. I am on my way to Tilory. ...
Reunited!
This is Requince, his wife and one of their sons.
ONE-TRUCK selected as Sambazon Finalist--VOTE NOW!!!
ONE-TRUCK.ORG has been selected as one of five finalist's in the Sambazon Acai: Warrior Up: Warrior of Change Contest! Vote HERE through January 21st to help ONE-TRUCK receive a $10,000 g...
Tilory; October return
This was a whirlwind trip- but probably one of our most important yet. We were able follow up on several previous projects as well as complete the construction of our pilot sanitation proje...
Haiti... My first time.
I've been an Officer/Representative of One-Truck Inc since day one. I had zero experience in disaster relief or humanitarian aid, but I agreed to an administrative position with the organiz...
Pilot Program: Micro-Loans
When we returned to IDP camp Tapis Vert we found many families working toward sustainability. One couple was creating frames out of re-used materials, finishing them in woven grass and fitting ...
Camp Tapis Vert at Bois Neuf Field (no longer?)
It was pretty crazy to come back and see the entire population of what was camp Tapis Vert no longer on the soccer field at Bois Neuf. At bottom (if I can get it to work) you should be able ...
Mountain Trek To Tilory
Hi Friends- We traveled on Monday to a remote northeast border town called Tilory (see the video:Toilets for Tilory). The estimated 200km trip took us ten hours after two breakdowns and a br...
Back On The Ground In Port Au Prince
After taking most of July off, One Truck hit the books in August to get ahead of the math-meets-spreadsheets joy that is non-profit accounting (Why didn't you tell me??? Why didn't I listen...
Clinica Ninos de los Naciones
Can you be mired in a quagmire? Or is that redundant?
Can you be mired in a quagmire? Or is that redundant? I feel like we have hit limbo here this week with our container homes. Years of land feud and disagreement have put the future location ...
Video of the first shipping container homes in the camp...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prqj8rJi_eQ
The first of the shipping container homes arrive on site!!!
The Good News is the first load of shipping container homes have arrived! The Bad News is, they're parked in traffic 4km from the border and could take 2-3 days to get thru customs...
Cosmo returns to Haiti...
After a brief respite in NYC for treatment of malaria/dengue fever/hand laceration I returned to PaP today. The One Truck focus is three-fold at this point; -prepare our site for arrival o...
'NYU Tonight' profiles ONE TRUCK & the BYO FOR HAITI event.
http://vimeo.com/11400523
Patricia Arquette talks about ONE TRUCK on the CBS Early Show with Harry Smith.
Patricia Arquette (GiveLove.Org) talks with Harry Smith about ONE TRUCK and their involvement with the Give Love campaign. http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6440085n&tag=mncol;lst;1
ONE TRUCK is now on YouTube...
Please visit http://www.youtube.com/user/ONETRUCKORG to watch as One Truck faces their next big challenge on the ground in Haiti...the rain.
Donation and Letter of Support from Sir Paul McCartney
"I think that the Give Love campaign is a very sensible and caring approach to this huge problem. I wish the campaign all the best and hope that it will bring better conditions to the good peo...
ONE TRUCK Team Update from Cosmo
We had a great meeting with Samaritans purse last night- these are the two guys whom I have been working with on food tickets from WFP. They have internally decided to veer from surge distro of...
One Truck BYO Event Sucess
Wow. I'm still recovering from the success of our One Truck BYO event- we raised almost $7,000 dollars in lil' ol' Williamsburg. Thanks to all of you for your support; and donations. So ...
B.Y.O. For Haiti
Back to PaP
I leave today to return to Port Au Prince- check in for updates as we return to Cité Soleil...
Reunited; then home...
Reguince and I continued on the following day to Santo Domingo. He spoke to his wife via my cellphone and confirmed that they were indeed in hospital at Dario Contreras in Sto Dgo, and that Luc...
My new friend Requince, talking.
Requince and I had quite the road trip finding various members of his family. Below are pictures of their happy reunion!
Horse Eating Garbage
Two new friends.
Watching a video I made of their brother, at a different hospital.
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Driving by Lago Enriquillo!
February 10
Reguince woke me up several times in the night- at one particularly bad moment he yelled "merde' several times before jumping out of bed with a lit cigarette hanging out of his mouth and switc...
February 9
Get a truck, make a difference? Today I traveled to the border town of jimani- easily six hours for the four hour trip.. Upon my arrival I discovered that the majority of Haitians have be...
Flight Is Booked
I have a meeting right now with some partners at Columbia- Pending this discussion I will either leave tonight or try to get together a few more donations-
Pre
Purchased water filtration and purification tablets today. Very exciting. Enjoyed a godmother sandwich today- probably wont see another one of those for a long time.