Fewer than 30% of Haitian children reach the 6th grade resulting in an overall literacy rate of about 53%. These students at Mont Fleury Elementary School outside of Jacmel were learning in a temporary structure while a more permanent school was und
The walk home from school in Port Margot involves a river crossing.
Listening at an evening AKV community meeting in Mare Rouge.
A river of trash in Cap Haitian.
A neighborhood still in ruins surrounding the rebuilt Iron Market in Port-au-Prince, a project spearheaded by British architect John McAslan.
Harvesting beans for dinner from the family garden in Cahesse.
Pressing his father's shirts with a charcoal iron.
Welding the rear bumper back onto the truck after getting side-swiped by another vehicle outside of Limbe.
Rice and beans for dinner in Plaisance by kerosene lantern.  Most of rural Haiti has no electricity.
Setting off to fish the mangroves near Caracol.
Preparing fields by hand in Mare Rouge for the upcoming wet season.
Haiti was almost two-thirds forested in 1923.  By 2006, that total had dropped to less that 2% due to logging and charcoal production.  This massive deforestation hurts agriculture by increases erosion and top soil loss.
Sasha Kramer, founder and director of SOIL , inspects compost made from human waste collected in community toilets around Port-au-Prince.
Children filling seedling bags with compost at the Pax Christi Ayiti Garden in the Citi Soleil neighborhood of Port-au-Prince.  The sprouted fruit trees grown in them are used in their community garden or sold for profit.
USAID has spent millions of dollars building this new expanse of housing near Caracol in northern Haiti to help move people out of tent cities in Port-au-Prince.  Locals are concerned that this new congestion of people in an area without jobs o
June Levinsohn, founder of AyitiKonseVet (AKV), dancing before a community meeting begins outside of Port Margot.
In the midst of an AKV meeting in Mare Rouge focused on starting a community bank amongst their members and giving immunizations to their shared sheep.
A road in the mountains above Jacmel nearly erased by Hurricane Sandy and now only navigable by foot and motorbike.
School children in Port Margot.
An evening soccer match in Mare Rouge.
Playing with a stick and loop at dusk along a trail near Plaisance.
A widow's daughter in Plaisance.
A boy potentially infected with typhoid visits the doctor at a health clinic run by the Community Coalition of Haiti in Jacmel.
A mother bathing her child after sundown on the roof of their house in Saint-Louis-du-Nord.
A family reading their Bible together before bed.
Brewing the morning's coffee over an open fire in Mare Rouge.
SOIL employees building house toilets in Limonade that will survive flooding without rotting like the wood versions do.
Filling water jugs from public taps in Mare Roue to carry home for cooking and cleaning. Some is also treated with bleach to be safe for drinking.
An afternoon card game in Mare Rouge.
Night skies with no light pollution other than a few candles.
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