I am not too good with trip reports, I hope the pictures tell you everything about the condition in which these people live and the need they have for help. Batey 9 is very hard to reach and unless you go specifically there you will never find it. It's inside the sugar cane plantations and the roads are very bad. We brought them bags with essential food and hygiene items, clothes, medicine, etc., it was not much, but it was as much as we could do. Each bag contained sugar, milk, oatmeal, sardine cans, cans of Vienna sausages, spaguetti, tomato sauce, toothpaste, 2 toothbrushes, chocolate bars, 3 bottles of water, etc., we brought 55 bags and distributed it among 55 families, I wish we had had more but we raised money within our company by carrying different fund raising activities.
The population in the Barahona bateyes is 90% haitian.
There's two sets of pictures, one from Batey 9 in Barahona, and the other from Bahoruco and San Rafael, where we went after we finished with the donations, we spent the night in Barahona.
Enjoy it.
The population in the Barahona bateyes is 90% haitian.
There's two sets of pictures, one from Batey 9 in Barahona, and the other from Bahoruco and San Rafael, where we went after we finished with the donations, we spent the night in Barahona.
Enjoy it.