Haiti.

Just a few words... then pictures, as they're more eloquent anyway.

Haiti.  Mountains beyond mountains.  Torrential rain at night, smothering heat in the day.  Traffic beyond traffic, snarled and noisy, jolting in eroded roads made worse with every downpour.  Flowers vibrant above the dust-colored, newly-constructed houses. Tent camps and shacks for earthquake survivors, still, two years later.  Electricity flickers, obnoxiously for those of us (me) with no battery in our laptops -- but grateful for electricity and internet at all, in a city where so much was destroyed so recently.  Beautiful mansions hulking on steep hilltops, perched overlooking the city and the nearby ocean.  Amazing participants at the training, smart and committed and faithful and questioning.  Games and laughter and sweat and discussion.  Rice and beans with tomato-onion sauce, fish and chicken, sweet potatoes and fried plantains.  Delicious.

So much fun in games... including this trust game.

Communication games.

Haiti, welcome to the IMPACT international youth movement!

 From the guest house where we stayed.

Port-au-Prince.

Tap-taps.  Public transit like you've never seen.

A bit of a jolt to come around a corner to this sort of enduring destruction.

Beautiful colored homes on a hillside in Petion Ville (greater Port-au-Prince).

Fellow trainer Tibi and I with Abbel, one of our translators.

 IMPACT Haiti!