Haiti

Grande-Rivière-du-Nord's Rich Heritage as you are looking at

former Haitian military leader Henri Namphy who was born in Grande-Riviere-du-Nord

Grande-Rivière-du-Nord is a repository of historical events, people, and remnants of its past.

Gallifet Sugar Plantation was the site of a Voodoo incantation, leading to the Haiti Slave Rebellion. A few miles away sits military fortress, Citadel Laferriere, which housed battle contingents.

Grande Rivière gave birth to several rulers including Jean-Jacques Dessalines. Pioneering ethnologist, Jean Price Mars, was also born there.

One fact the town can boast of is a significant number of centenarians, one of few places in Haiti where they exist.

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Haiti, woup toujou rete "La Perle des Antilles" pou mwen.

This is the picture of Haiti, once known as "La Perle des Antilles". Te country is officially called the Republic of Haiti and is located on the western side of the island. Haiti's regional, historical, and ethno-linguistic position makes it unique. The country is very proud for its revolution to gain its independence in 1804. Haiti was the first independent nation of Latin America and the Caribbean, the first black-led republic in the world.

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The Haiti government has spent $1.2 million on a paint job to improve the drab houses of Jalousie. The reason is houses face luxury hotels across the way in Petion-Ville. The government wants hotel guests to believe they are looking out onto a plush suburb instead of a slum.

Jalousie says it needs water, sanitation, and health clinics. The government says be patient; Jalousie will get their needs met when more money is freed up.

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Here is a beautiful view of the town of Kenskoff. A famous place in the area is the Wynne Farm near Kenscoff.
The Wynne Farm is one more organization that realizes helping Haiti involves empowering its women to make a change in their lives to make a positive change in their environments. The Fanm Kap Plante project intends to unite Haitian women by having them plant and protect the trees within their communities. The scope is so much wider than just planting trees though; the farm also enquired about ways to make the lives of these 110 participants better and helped them solve problems of reliable health care facilities, schooling for their children, and clean water for drinking.

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Kenscoff, Haiti
Showing a decidedly more stately side from the night-time vibrancy of Kenscoff, in the south-east of Haiti, is the market held there weekly for farmers who live near and far away. Some journey across mountains, as Kenscoff boasts an altitude of 1,500 meters, and walk for up to 8 hours to get to the market in order to sell their vegetables and produce. When selling is done, the farmers buy seeds and farming paraphernalia, including fertilizer, then journey back to their homes.

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Gonaïves' terrain exposes it to flooding, a valley where run-off cascades from surrounding mountains during heavy rains.

Seasonal hurricanes hit coastal Gonaïves, causing flooding and mud slides. Damage usually results in thousands of deaths, and ruination of plant life.

Storm lakes flood roadways, preventing aid-supplies coming from Port-au-Prince. Some flooding is caused by water flowing from a watershed close by.

Weather scientists have been compiling data to find a solution to contain it.

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Gonaïves, a district located in the Haiti department of Artibonite, is comprised of three communes.

The city contains the Gulf of Gonave harbor, where it exports coffee, cotton, sugar, fruits, and wood products.

It is renowned as Haiti's Independence City, where the Act of Independence was read at its Place d' Armes in 1804.

In 2010 it served as refuge for survivors of the earthquake, depleting its scarce resources. Today it has become a peaceful community.

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In Fonds-Verrettes the ravines are flat, with water running through which makes it a tempting place for the residents to live in. However, the residents of Fonds-Verrettes have a fearful story attached to the ravines. The area is prone to storms and lethal storm waters from the mountains flow through the ravines. A devastating storm happened in 2004 in Hurricane Georges when storm waters washed through leaving 680 locals dead and several others homeless. The cost of these floods is being felt even to date and the town is now growing away from the path of the storm waters.

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From Fonds-Verrettes the closest places include La Mission, Nan Catte, Trois Mats and Haut Mome. La Mission is actually located in Fonds-Verrettes while Nan Catte and Trois Mats are both 1.2km from Fonds-Verrettes. Haut Mome is 1.4 km from Fonds-Verrettes. If you are looking for a bigger city Delmas is 50km away while Port-au-Prince, the capital city of Haiti is 53km.

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After five months of drought Fonds-Verrettes received rains this April. Farmers had already given up after losing their seeds during the drought that hit the area from November 2012 to march 2013. The region normally receives rains in March a time when most of the farmers have sowed their crops. The harvest time is usually in May. But this year the residents of Fonds-Verrettes await a difficult moment of food shortage. The ground is dusty and crops wither in the fields. The situation is desperate and local farmers have made an outcry for emergency response.

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