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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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The Town of Kenscoff in Haiti
The Ouest Department town of Kenscoff has its own set of modest amenities to offer a Haitian passing through. Only about 10 kilometers outside of Port-au-Prince, the town has developed a reputation for an intense nightlife. With a population last estimated at about 4,000, the rousing parties at night, housed in myriad establishments for just such nocturnal enjoyment, call to the wealthy of Haiti who flock there for the night-time entertainment.

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Sidling away from the practices of the past, the tourism industry wishes to turn La Gonave from an island of undesirables, to the Caribbean's paradise, with a $48 billion budget to do it. While La Gonave's Australian-like transformation has been widely talked of, no concrete plans have been formed and the island and its inhabitants continue to struggle with issues of water scarcity, the continued disenfranchisement of its citizens and recovering, like the rest of Haiti, from the 2010 earthquake, the epicenter of which the island was close to.

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120,000 of Haiti's residents live on a small island off the coast of the capital called La Gonave. Only ten by thirty miles, the island is accessible by a 40 minute boat ride from Port-au-Prince. Its detachment from the mainland made it a propitious place years ago for Haiti to send those viewed as 'undesirable'. The list of those banished there included criminals, the old and the sick.

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La Gonave, the largest of the satellite islands of Hispaniola, includes the Pointe-à-Raquette and Anse-à-Galets communes, and resides in the Ouest Department. It is a hilly, rocky island that receives up to 1,600 mm of rainfall yearly. In its past, La Gonave was a pirate base, and was later the place where criminals and other undesirables were sent. From the census a decade before, the population was estimated to be over 75,000.

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L'Ile de la Tortue - Tortuga Island in Haiti
Perhaps coming in handy to the 17th and 18th century inhabitants, and thus lending to its history as the pirate haven of the new world during this period, Tortuga has an almost impenetrable north side, so jutted and littered with dangerous cliffs it has garnered the name, 'Ironside'. On its beautiful southern coast, the pirate inhabitants could easily guard their island of fortune, with the inaccessible north side giving fortress at their backs.

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L'Ile de la Tortue - Tortuga Island in Haiti. Tortuga in the golden age of piracy could be called the Switzerland of the pirate world. It was a common place for pirates from all over to hide their loot; therefore, it is little wonder that depictions of the small island are so numerous in various books; from James Michener's aptly titled, 'Caribbean', Valerio Evangelisti's even more aptly named, 'Tortuga' and Michael Crichton's Pirate Latitudes, to songs; like Styx's 'Jonas Psalter' and The Lonely Island's, 'Jack Sparrow', to movies; such as 1942's 'The Black Swan', and 1952's 'Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd'.

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Given the stories that have survived through time about the infamous Tortuga pirates, it is little wonder the site is still stereotypically known for that period. In the early period, before piracy and Tortuga became almost one in the same, a French governor brought over 1600 prostitutes to the island in a bid to bring more harmony to the rowdy band of pirates.

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President Martelly, faced with the threat of impeachment by Parliament, made an unexpected visit to two opposition leaders, Serge Gilles and Evans Paul.

During his talks with Gilles, which lasted tow hours, the discussion covered a range of topics, including the possible dissolution of Parliament in January. Martelly's talks with Evans followed the same format. Neither would say much about what was said to the media. Parliament is considering a proposal to impeach Martelly if he doesn't hold elections by year's end.

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