La Montagne - Blog

La Montagne or "The Mountain" is located in the region of Nord-Ouest Haiti. Three villages, Le Croix, Belleu and Terra Rouge are within the area of La Montay or La Montagne. You can reach their by two hour's drive from the small city of Jacmel on the south side of the island. It is a place with very small population where people live in explicit poverty and the destitute is unfathomable. There is acute shortage of water and irrigation facility, electricity is non-existent. People make their living out of subsistence farming that leaves hardly any surplus to trade. Children walk as far as one and half hour to attend schools provided their parents have some good resources to pay $25 annual tuition fees. Children lack access to basic education-- classrooms are missing, teachers use tarp as a chalkboard. more »

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