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For Folks New to HATS

November 12, 2013 Posted by Keith Wight 3 Comments

For those of you who are relatively new to the HATS HAITI blog here’s some information for you.

Wall outside the main compound. Presently changes are being made to this

 

Road, canal (with corner of school yard) outside mission

 

Main road with bridge taken from our security tower

HATS is located in Deschappelles which is almost in the geographical center of Haiti. It is 130 Kms. from the capital and main airport in Port au Prince. It is between St. Marc on the gulf of Gonâve and approximately 100 Kms from the border with the Dominican Republic. The compound is surrounded by rolling hills, rice fields and faces the canal from the hydro dam.

Main compound on left, trees in school compound on right

The 2 story violet (Haitian color is Dignity) building is the boy’s dorm. The second floor is a missionary apartment. The next violet building is the girls’ dorm.

The big green (Tempting Teal) and white building is mission control. The downstairs has 2 offices and kitchen and the living quarters for Karen and Ti Luc.
The second floor is the HATS HILTON and the third floor is an observation deck.

Looking into HATS Hilton from the water tower

The HATS Hilton offers 3 types of accommodation: The first 2 are outside where it is cooler.

The North American Single:

North American single

The Haitian single:

Haitian Single

Or the honeymoon suite:

Honeymoon suite

Beware the honeymoon suite because with no bug nets these critters could come to visit your bed!

Karen likes this critter

 

This critter – not so much

Monday here at HATS all the weekly routines started for another week.

The school kids went to school.

Karen worked in her office.

And little Jonathan and I just hung out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Precious Jonathan

~Keith

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About Keith Wight

Joan and Keith Wight have been involved with HATS since 2011. Keith is a retired airline pilot and previously volunteered with missions in Belize, Zimbabwe, Panama and Honduras in various capacities. Joan is a retired music teacher and uses her abilities to assist with the office work and tutor the children at HATS. Since retiring they have committed to 4 months per year in Haiti. They live in Montreal and have 3 daughters, 2 son-in-laws and 2 grandsons and 2 grand-daughters.

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  • Karen
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    November 12, 2013 at 10:37 AM

    When Keith, the writer of the blog, says "he and Jonathan just hung out' please know it means Jonathan hung out on the swing awhile. Keith does not 'hang out'. He keeps going, going, going like the energizer batteries. All of us here are very thankful for all he is accomplishing.

  • Sandra
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    November 12, 2013 at 9:02 PM

    I don't think there is much hanging out for you Keith! I know there would be a good photo of it if you did!
    I love this blog, you did a wonderful job of showing the compound and the outside! If I had never been before I would be wanting to go! Keep up the good job of bloging along with everything else you do!

  • Ken H
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    November 14, 2013 at 1:13 PM

    Who ever took pictures of the compound did a better job than I did with mine. If you have them in larger size, I'd like to have them emailed to me, so they show up larger on my screen saver photo show that I have set up on my computer. Great blog, great job.

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