Vodou Orphanage
by sean on Mar.16, 2010, under Work
Hello there from Jacmel, Haiti…
Came into town today to share some really amazing news – everything is falling into place really quickly for getting the Danthor Foundation Orphanage up and running!! Well forget the old venues discussed for now – there’s a fantastic venue really close to LaBien’s plot which used to be a nightclub with several private rooms on the premises… The venue has not been used as a nightclub for quite some time but is amazingly well build and has very only minimal damage! There’s lots of rooms – maybe for about 24-30 kids initially and lots of room for expansion… Manbo Paula is really excited about it!!
We contacted the owner, and he’s a great guy – really sympathetic to the cause – the world’s first purely vodou-styled orphanage – and he will probably give really low rent. He hasn’t used the building at all and it was just sitting there anyway…
I’ve taken loads of videos and pics of it but alas, I’m having problems with broken USBs and flaky bluetooth and seem unable to get anything off the cameras and onto the net!! Grrr!! Hope I can show this to you all soon!
March 17th, 2010 on 3:24 am
Wow, excellent news dude!
March 17th, 2010 on 9:50 am
Yay! But where will they get even the low rent from?
April 3rd, 2010 on 5:53 pm
Well Jaq, the money is going to have to come by way of donations initially… Manbo Paula has her contacts in NZ and I will ask around here… Hopefully between the 2 of us we can raise enough funds to get the Orphanage up and running properly… But I’ll write more about it in the coming few weeks… lots of love, sean