The Haiti Project

Enfofanm

Port-au-Prince

July 23 - August 1, 1999

Protecting Women’s

Rights in Haiti

Evelyne Margrone &

Lynn Hyacinthe open the

Enfofanm office

Lynn Hyacinthe, our mentor, and Danielle Magloire, Executive Director of Enfofanm

Sandy Gill, Liliane Floge, and volunteer from England in

Enfofanm office

The inverter, made with automobile batteries, to

keep the computer from failing when

power goes out

All-important pre-workshop planning session to define terms and work out

schedule

Isabel at our posh hotel,

which made us feel guilty after

each day of working with

Haiti’s women

Breakfast under the almond tree

NGO workers at hotel

Typical street scene

Haiti in its heyday,the

early decades of

the twentieth century

No money for restoration architecture

Buildings in a state of decay

Haiti’s true genius lies in its

arts:headloads of

baskets for sale

Mr. Petit & his paintings, but where are the tourists who

will buy them?

Recycled oil drum art

Love those oil-drum

sunflowers!

Painting apples

We visit the museum of Haitian arts.

Major hotel lighting

based on oil-drum art

Textile art using sequins

Houses built on mountain hillsides as Port-au-Prince expands

The top of the mountain has also been deforested.

Debris washes down the mountain in a heavy rain.

The faithful 4-wheel drive picked us up each morning

Where we waited in the hotel lobby for our friends

Monument to Maroons, escaped slaves who lived free in the rugged

center of the island

Monument to Father

Bertrand Aristide, who

promised Haiti justice and a new society

Graffiti on wall near export processing zone: “Viv Aristide”

Clouds, metaphoric and real, over Aristide’s Presidential Palace

UN Peacekeepers’ Compound

Anonymous messages about democracy on city walls

Discussing Haitian politics with Evelyn Margron’s husband, Gil

Demonstration at Office of Citizen’s Protection

Liliane, Isabel, &

Sandy wearing “Abolish

Violence” t-shirts

Political candidate, herself a victim of violence, joins in

demonstration

Women doctor tells of another

type of violence: dumping of bad

pharmaceuticals in developing countries.

Tap-tap: how most Haitians get to work in the morning

Tap-taps are brightly painted, inexpensive mass transportation.

Visit to Fanmyola: Senate candidate educates women about

the political process

The woman on the left is also running for public office.

Attending a Famnyola fund-raiser featuring 5 rock bands

The non-existent

Women’s Bureau, an

empty building

Poster about women’s equality

before the law

Visit with Executive Director of Kay-Fanm

Visit with Executive Director of SOFA

Visit to SOFA’s clinic (funded by Madre)

Meeting with “The Strong Women of Matesan”

All of these women had been raped by the police or the army.

The clinic pharmacy had recently been smashed by the police, who accused the

women of drug trading.

Examination room and clinic medical staff

A visit to CPFO, which trains women in labor organizing

We meet with CPFO’s public relations person and their nurse.

Looking at brochures on sexually transmitted diseases

Family Planning Poster

CPFO’s training room

Better-equipped clinic at CPFO (funded by European labor

unions)

Autoclave for sterilization

CPFO Dietician

andCook

Visit to Soros Foundation

Danielle Magloire

at her consulting firm office

Maryam, economist, Danielle’s consulting

firm partner

Sandy, Liliane, Isabel

EQUALITY Girls have the same rights to nourishment, education, and

health care as boys.

Liliane lectures on power and gendered social roles

Workshop notes were

taken in Creole and posted on the wall.

Workshop participants from other Haitian NGO’s

Mid-afternoon

lunch break:

delicious creole food

Workshop participants take notes

Sandy lectures on women in the work force

Women in the

informal economy

Selling used

clothes

Buying items and reselling them on

the street to make a

small profit

Isabel lectures on women’s health issues

Workshop participants swelter and learn

Post-workshop discussion

Computer web site inauguration

But where is the information about women in Haiti?

Symbols of Haiti:

the butterfly and the

generator

The future of Haiti is

in her hands.

Progress for women is progress

for everyone.