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TESTIMONIALS FROM THE COMMUNITY
Marianette, 38 years old, HatteDimanche
"AMURT has a good way with the people. They are easy to approach, and talk to, even though they come from all over. They seem to respond to what we want, as if they have lived here all their lives. We like them, and I sometimes tell my husband that I'm thankful for the Hurricane (Jeanne), for it brought AMURT to our area."
Jean Mark, 38 years old, Magazen
"AMURT is doing a very good work here. I wish other organizations would do similar type of development. They live with us, treat us no differently than their own family, and seem to tune in to what we have to say. They always have problems with their vehicles, and they still sleep in tents, some of them. But they invest a lot in us, and I like that. Before we didn't have no committee, and we couldn't get any help for our water system. Now not only we meet regularly, but we also have a plan, and a hope for the future."
Jackie, 18 years old, Sou Chod
"Well, they are not joking when they say they'll do good projects, I mean AMURT of course. They do it, it might take some time but they do it. There hasn't been another organization here that has done so much for the area as them. I like that they work with us, the younger people. They do championships, and my little brother is in the karate class they started. Just when we think there is nothing that they haven't done, and opala, they start a program I have thought of but never believed possible. Solar panels, then schools, clinics, trees, they seem to get in everything!"
Kids, Zoranje
"We didn't have school before, had to walk to Park Melon. And water was far away, all the way up on the mountain. Now we have a new school, and the water came down. Yes, AMURT, of course, if it wasn't for them we would be still without water and school. Agh, yes, they gave us soccer balls, and taught us how to plant trees. And we like the karate classes, and the art too. We only wish they came sooner, they do a lot of programs for the young kids, and we wish they were here when we were their age."
Lamartin, 82 years old, Laobe
"They came with these trees, and asked me if I'd like them in my yard. Who wouldn't want trees! They asked me why I wanted them. I said, for the shade, of course! They are the first to do that. And the water came down because of them. Before my garden couldn't get any of the water from the spring, now after they did all those canals up there I get water to the garden, and I hear the water gets all the way down to Bonal now. And the trees? Ha-ha, they are growing, wouldn't let anything happen to them, no sir!"
Madam Onel, 74 years old, Point-des-Mangles
"After the Hurricane life became even harder. We had no food, no nothing. The rains took all of our gardens away. And then these white people came, there were Haitians with them too, yes. AMURT. And they took care of us when no one even came to check on us, right then and there. They did with us these kitchens, serving hot meals for months on end. And then they gave us seeds, I still have the harvests that started with the seeds from that time. And they didn't leave, they stayed, and they’re still here. The village now has water because of them, and I hear that now they'll be in schools too. They doing good, and they helped me with the house once, fixing the roof up. God sent them, really."
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