August 27, .2010
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
I would like to give you some idea about Riviere Mancelle and to thank you Riviere Mancelle is a countryside parish laying about in the Northwest of Haiti. Coming from the town of Gros Morne, people have to cross a river twenty times to get there. Only one priest (me) and two nuns work with volunteers, and catechists, members of liturgy committees, teachers…
My parish has a main church with 4 chapels and seven posts, 4 elementary schools, 2 dispensaries, 1 welcome house for visitors. We get minimal electricity at the main mission and in the dispensaries from solar panels.
Spring water is available at the main mission and all of the chapels. Three schools have sun ovens to cook lunch for school children and purify water.
Aside my current activities as priest in church, we realized from September 2009 to July 2010, the following activities in my parish:
• To build 24 rock gabions to protect the property the main mission sits on.
• To start a tree nursery at Garcin.
• To build rocket stove at Garcin for the school lunch program.
• To construct a public fountain at Danty.
• To install a sun oven at Chateau for the school lunch.\to rebuild the rectory at Riviere Mancelle, the rectory was badly damaged in the earthquake of January 12, 2010.
• To plant trees (over 1700 trees) at Delva.
• To begin to build, at Riviere Mancelle, two family houses for two families, so populous of children. One of the two old houses was badly damaged in the earthquake, the others one was not safe enough for people to live in..
• To relieve with some money survivors ( their relatives and friends) of the earthquake.( they came from Port-au-Prince, capital city.)
• To buy seeds and garden tools for the groups of planters in Danty.
• To buy medicine for the two dispensaries in Riviere Mancelle and Chateau.
Also, we continue the projects of school lunch and school children sponsorships and to help the poor and the students.
For all those realizations, we got help from you, from the Salvatorian Order, from lent collections, from a special collection in favor of survivors of the quake of January 2010, from a lady in New Hampshire, from St. Thomas, St. Andrew, and St. Gregory. Many thanks to everyone here, to all of them for supporting so much to improve my parish.
Many thanks to all the volunteers for their kindly services in favor of the people in Riviere Mancelle.
Many thanks to Fr. Jim Bretl for supporting my parish in many ways every year.
Many thanks to all those people for visiting my parish once or many times.
Many thanks to Mr. , Mrs. Bob and Denise Snyder for welcoming me so generously in their home for one and a half months( since nine years) every summer.
May God Bless you and your family.
Fr. Jadotte Joseph
Monday, August 30, 2010
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Cookeville this weekend
We will be at Cookeville for mass this weekend with Fr. Jadotte. We will have coffee, vanilla, almond extract, and some crafts. Fr. will speak about events since his last visit.
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Bob and Jan Fairchild have returned.
To recap, the major accomplishments were:
1. Stove building workshop with three rocket stoves constructed at Fon Imbo
2. New rocket stove constructed at Garsen
3. Fixed sun oven at Boucan Richard
4. Delivered parts for Gator, now fixed and running again
5. Mango processing workshop with mango nectar production and canning of mango pulp demonstration
6. Started rocket stove at Kalabat
7. Construction of better incinerator at Kay Se.
8. Construction and installation of compost barrel at Kay Se.
9. Design and construction of prototype composting toilet system to be tested by workshop artists.
10. Design and construction of household rocket stove for demonstration
It was a busy two weeks!
1. Stove building workshop with three rocket stoves constructed at Fon Imbo
2. New rocket stove constructed at Garsen
3. Fixed sun oven at Boucan Richard
4. Delivered parts for Gator, now fixed and running again
5. Mango processing workshop with mango nectar production and canning of mango pulp demonstration
6. Started rocket stove at Kalabat
7. Construction of better incinerator at Kay Se.
8. Construction and installation of compost barrel at Kay Se.
9. Design and construction of prototype composting toilet system to be tested by workshop artists.
10. Design and construction of household rocket stove for demonstration
It was a busy two weeks!
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Gator fixed!
Dear Bob and Denise,
Tiden got the Gator put back together again yesterday. I was at Garcen where we sorted through more drums. They only sent one paint stirrer. I'll
contact the paint people. Got a new stove stsrted at Garcen. It's a two day process because the insulating concrete needs to set up and the 30
gallon barrel form removed before we can pour the regular concrete and add the lnsulating fire cement skirt on top of it.
Jean Louis drove the Gator down today. We went to Fon Imbo for bricks and it started smoking. We eventually drove it up to Tiden's "shop".(Now just
the side of the road. Somebody built in that lot he used to use.) They eventually decided it had been overheating due to water pump problem and fan
problem. They got them both working and we headed up to Kalabat. Jan had lost all confidence in the Gator and had found the ride atrocious so she
came back to the house. Jean Louis and I made it to Kalabat with a couple stops to add water and retwist the fan wire to the other wire it was now
twisted around. Polo says hello. Looking forward to seeing you in October. We got the stove started in the school kitchen. The first half is only
two hours with all the bricks precut. Toured the schools and took pictures. I didn't see any structural cracks but didn't get into everywhere. Jan
is leaning toward building rainwater cisterns at Food for the Poor houses if/when
she brings students. I'm also developing a composting toilet with urine diverter using those green mineral tubs. That might have promise too as a
project.
We made it back to Gros Morne with only one stop to retwist the fan wire. (put a 12V soldering iron with battery clips, no corrosive flux, and
electrical solder (NOT lead free!) on the list).
I'm planning to start the household stove here tomorrow morning, (It should be pretty portable.) then go up to Garsen in the afternoon to put on
the skirt there. Jean Louis will remove the insulating concrete form (there are two now, one at Garsen, one at Kalabat) and surround with regular
concrete in the morning.
Then we'll haul down the medical barrels for Jackie and a couple more barrels for a better incinerator and a firewood dryer. I've already got a
couple of them perforated for here for composting barrels. The composting toilets will use a perforated barrel for the actual composting. A bucket
for feces collection. Still working on urine diverter.
Thursday is mango day at St Gabriel's in town.
Friday maybe back to Kalabat. Polo didn't have a key to get the cookpots. We need one to design the skirt there.
The Gator could use a roof attachment if there is one. Also the brakes sound horrible, work poorly, and need to be fixed.
Keeping busy,
Bob
Tiden got the Gator put back together again yesterday. I was at Garcen where we sorted through more drums. They only sent one paint stirrer. I'll
contact the paint people. Got a new stove stsrted at Garcen. It's a two day process because the insulating concrete needs to set up and the 30
gallon barrel form removed before we can pour the regular concrete and add the lnsulating fire cement skirt on top of it.
Jean Louis drove the Gator down today. We went to Fon Imbo for bricks and it started smoking. We eventually drove it up to Tiden's "shop".(Now just
the side of the road. Somebody built in that lot he used to use.) They eventually decided it had been overheating due to water pump problem and fan
problem. They got them both working and we headed up to Kalabat. Jan had lost all confidence in the Gator and had found the ride atrocious so she
came back to the house. Jean Louis and I made it to Kalabat with a couple stops to add water and retwist the fan wire to the other wire it was now
twisted around. Polo says hello. Looking forward to seeing you in October. We got the stove started in the school kitchen. The first half is only
two hours with all the bricks precut. Toured the schools and took pictures. I didn't see any structural cracks but didn't get into everywhere. Jan
is leaning toward building rainwater cisterns at Food for the Poor houses if/when
she brings students. I'm also developing a composting toilet with urine diverter using those green mineral tubs. That might have promise too as a
project.
We made it back to Gros Morne with only one stop to retwist the fan wire. (put a 12V soldering iron with battery clips, no corrosive flux, and
electrical solder (NOT lead free!) on the list).
I'm planning to start the household stove here tomorrow morning, (It should be pretty portable.) then go up to Garsen in the afternoon to put on
the skirt there. Jean Louis will remove the insulating concrete form (there are two now, one at Garsen, one at Kalabat) and surround with regular
concrete in the morning.
Then we'll haul down the medical barrels for Jackie and a couple more barrels for a better incinerator and a firewood dryer. I've already got a
couple of them perforated for here for composting barrels. The composting toilets will use a perforated barrel for the actual composting. A bucket
for feces collection. Still working on urine diverter.
Thursday is mango day at St Gabriel's in town.
Friday maybe back to Kalabat. Polo didn't have a key to get the cookpots. We need one to design the skirt there.
The Gator could use a roof attachment if there is one. Also the brakes sound horrible, work poorly, and need to be fixed.
Keeping busy,
Bob
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