Director’s Corner:
Trans-Border Project Update
By Scott Sabin, Executive Director
It is only eighteen miles between our southern
Trans-border office in the Haitian village of Terre
Froid and our northern Trans-border office in the
Dominican village of Sabana...
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Director’s Corner:
Trans-Border Project Update
By Scott Sabin, Executive Director
It is only eighteen miles between our southern
Trans-border office in the Haitian village of Terre
Froid and our northern Trans-border office in the
Dominican village of Sabana Real.
Eighteen miles as
the crow flies and nearly nine hours travel.
You can
almost see one village from the other, looking out across the enormous
valley that splits the southern half of Hispaniola with its chain of salt
lakes.
In the middle, still half buried by tons of boulders and silt which
came down the river near or office on horrible night in May of 2004, lies
the town of Jimani.
It is two hours down the mountain, a half an hour being searched by
the Haitian police during a traffic stop, an hour at Haitian immigration,
followed by a motorcycle ride between Haitian and Dominican immigration.
(All your luggage goes on the motorcycle with you – you learn to
pack light.
) It is another hour in Dominican immigration warding off
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