Tom G's (chieftaing) trip to Haiti

I'm going to Haiti with 12 others, including my daughter Beth.

Currently I'm starting to pack, get my lists together, buying a few things online ahead of time.

I've e-mail my family asking for donations of money which I will use to buy school supplies which the community school we'll be working on needs. In Haiti, parents must buy school supplies for their kids, and many cannot afford to do so. So we'll be using a big portion of our suitcases to carry the school supplies. I'm also putting a box in our break room at work (ExaGrid Systems) to collect school supplies. One thing I plan to buy is a whole bunch of $4 calculators from Staples, figuring that's one item that must be hard to find or is expensive in Haiti.

The web sites with more info about the places we'll be in Haiti are:
www.eglisebaptisteconcorde.com
www.onemissionsociety.org - which mentions the OMS "villa ormiso" where we're living

The first web site is in Haitian creole - mostly French, but with differences. My daughter can read it, but I can't. She likes showing me up like that :-)

Blessings,
Tom