JetBlue airplane at airport gate 28

Our departure plane from JFK, New York to Port-au-Prince.

Passengers loading luggage into white shuttle van

Our taxi from the airport to Jacmel.

Green hills and trees with distant coastline

A view on the road to Jacmel.

Guest house entrance with two parked SUVs

Our guest house.

Spacious communal room with staircase and luggage

Arrival at the guest house.

Six men eating dinner at a table

Our first meal together.

White pickup truck carrying passengers in bed

Loading up to go to the jobsite.

Men walking along tropical village dirt road

We were close enough that we could walk from the guest house to the jobsite.

Tall radio mast above residential tropical street

Our first view of the old tower.

Man adjusting electronics on cluttered desk

Getting ready to shut down equipment for eventual relocation.

Radio tower above palm trees and blue sky

The tower needs to come down before it falls down.

Small radio station building with tall antenna

Dangerous lean.

Group of men talking beside a gated fence

Discussing the plan of action.

Three workers assembling metal tower section

Assembling the sections for the gin pole.

Two men installing electrical conduit on blue wall
Man painting light blue interior wall with roller
Workers installing large red metal gate

Sending up the gin pole.

Worker climbing tall radio tower beside trees

Sending the gin pole up the tower.

Technician climbing tall radio tower against sky
People serving food at indoor buffet table

Saturday evening dinner.

Children sitting on benches in community hall

Sunday service at Beraka Church.

Family gathered around dining table for meal

Sunday lunch at Pastor Duplessy’s home.

Technicians repairing circuit board at cluttered workbench

Taking a look at a transmitter at the Cote Plage studio.

Technician operating radio mixing board with observers

Inside the Cote Plage broadcast studios.

Smiling diverse group of adults outdoors

Showing another group from PA the Cote Plage studios.

Burger with crinkle-cut chips on plate

Some tastes are universal.

Schoolchildren in uniforms forming a circle

Monday morning start of school.

Man in purple cap writing on cup

High tech and low tech calculations.

Teacher leading children in church classroom
Church and unfinished building on sunny dirt road

Bringing down the last pieces of the old tower.

People collaborating around laptop in classroom

Figuring out how to make it all fit.

Three men talking outside near red gate

Running Jim's idea by the Pastor.

Construction worker installing wiring in blue room
Person on rooftop with water tanks

Scouting out solar panel locations.

Metal standing-seam roof with distant mountains
Person in driver's seat of car
Worker in red shirt bending over metal panel

Prepping the base plate.

Concrete footing form with exposed rebar
Fresh concrete footing with anchor bolt
Two workers mixing cement beside a wheelbarrow

Our expert concrete mixer.

Worker installing wooden door frame

Our expert carpenter.

Two workers talking by gate, one holds drill

Jim explains his idea for Plan D.

Weathered wooden ladder leaning against exterior wall

No OSHA in Haiti.

Schoolchildren playing soccer in dirt courtyard

Lunch time fun.

Four men fixing a metal fence outdoors

Assembling tower sections.

Workers assembling wooden frame inside blue-walled room
Two schoolchildren on red Yamaha motorcycle

Playing on Dad's taxi.

Three men repairing metal fence outdoors
Construction workers carrying metal truss on road

Getting ready to erect the first two sections.

Workers pulling cables outside residential building
Workers lifting metal antenna mast by building
Woman carrying yellow basin on head near building

On the way home from market.

Three women standing around indoor table

Our outstanding kitchen team.

Worker applying finish to wooden tabletops

One of our excellent carpenters.

Smiling man wiring electrical panel
Painter on ladder by Donald Duck mural

Getting the hole through the wall for the cables to the tower.

Two men assembling wooden cabinet outdoors
Church building with radio tower and stormy sky

Storm clouds to the east.

Construction rebar and building under stormy sky
Woman and girl hugging in kitchen

Mother and daughter.

Schoolchildren in yellow uniforms in hall
Three people talking beside scrap metal pile

Negotiating to purchase and take home the evening supper.

Three people and goat in cluttered yard

No deal?

Person handling three chickens on gravel ground

Getting ready to take the bus home and visit the stew pot.

Group of seven men standing together

L to R: Junal, Peniel, Doug, Dale, Annous, Jim, Harry

Two workers using spirit level on blue wall
Man showing boy a small object outdoors

Getting the antenna cable ready to send up the tower.

Metal lattice tower viewed from below
Aerial view of tropical town, mountain, sea

The view from the top, looking east.

Aerial view down tower showing boots and harness
Aerial view of two people in dirt courtyard
Aerial view of tropical town with palm trees

Looking west.

Aerial view of tropical town with radio tower

Looking north.

Aerial view of village with hills and houses

Looking south.

Corrugated metal roof with pole shadow
Aerial view of corrugated metal roof
Aerial view down metal tower toward rooftop
Open medical device with exposed wiring

Getting the inverter reinstalled and connected to the system.

Smiling man with boy on sunlit road
Two men working with metal rod outdoors

Getting the antenna ready to install on the tower.

Man handling audio equipment in radio studio

Getting the transmitter equipment reinstalled.

Two men working on laptops

Saturday -- testing of reinstalled equipment.

Worker climbing a radio antenna mast

Dale with his HAM radio gear on the tower.

Men working with laptops and audio equipment

Back on the air Sunday morning.

Seaside promenade with people, palm trees, mountains

Jacmel waterfront.

Colorful mosaic seaside promenade with palm trees
Courtyard pool and balconies at Colin's Hotel

Colin's Hotel - lunch and swimming.

Group of people waiting in lobby area
Sandy beach with waves and rocky pier
Tropical beach with palm trees and mountains
Tropical beach with palm trees and boat
People seated around outdoor dining table

Sunday lunch.

Beef stew with onions, peppers and fries

Jacmel

January 14-23, 2017

We returned to Beraka Church, site of our March, 2011 project to install an FM radio station for Radio Lumiere.

We replaced the damaged tower, relocated the station to another room in the church, and distributed 'community water systems' through a partnership with New Hope Coalition of Bradenton, FL. We also laid the groundwork for another team from Michigan to install solar panels to power the station.