![]() ![]() And… I have to come back to Anse D’Hainault,” she said. I can’t come back with 2,500 gourdes to Anse D’ahainault. I am her unique daughter,” she explained.īut she is worried about how she is going to support her five children, plus her mother. ![]() Jeanti wants to go back to her town Anse D’hainault to take of her mother. A cookie-maker like Jeanti has to buy the mud from middle-man who purchases it from someone with access to the mine, then brings it to Port-Au-Prince. The mud mine is located in the central of Haiti. And I made 100 gourdes (2.50 U.S.),” she told IPS. “I buy two bags of mud for 500 gourdes (12.57 U.S.). But it wasn’t enough, so she started baking and selling mud cookies herself. Most the houses are made with concrete blocks and unfinished.ĭuring her first two years in Port-Au-Prince, Jeanti managed the products she brought from Anse D’hainault. She sits in a dirty corner near the entrance to a narrow corridor where people come to buy mud cookies or a gallon of water from a neighbour. The concrete canal running through the neighbourhood is full to the brim with plastic bottles. Now Jeanti lives in Cité Saint Georges, a tiny district within Cité Soleil. Unemployment rates rise to 80-90 percent in much of the countryside. Haiti Gears Up for Polls – Again, Sans Lavalasīut the income from farming small crops wasn’t enough.Haitians in DR Reap Far Less than They Sow.Haitian Immigrant Street Peddlers Try to Get a Leg Up. ![]()
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