Who am I?
This is the website for Sean Scullion, also known as Seani Fool.
I’m an Australian-born, Brighton-based author, performer and activist on my way to Jacmel, Haiti to help with the rebuilding process after the earthquake(s) struck there in January 2010.
I have had a long fascination with Haiti for about ten years. In particular, I’ve had a fascination with the official national religion of Haiti – Haitian Vodou – which has been much vilified for a few hundred years but is actually a really beautiful, intelligent, life-affirming religion, with a history that traces back to the homelands of African slaves brought there.
My main decision to go to Haiti stems from an article I read on the BBC News website, Voodoo religion’s role in helping Haiti’s quake victims. The article quotes Theodore ‘Lolo’ Beaubrun, the Haitian singer as saying, “Some Christian communities do not want to give food to voodoo followers.”
Upon reading this, the only sane thing I could do was start organising to go over there – a wonderful religion like Vodou really could do with being somewhat demystified and the people who work with it need to eat.
The final clincher was discovering that a friend of a friend of mine has been involved with The Danthor Foundation – a Haitian Vodou charitable trust and Orphanage that was destroyed in the quake.
So I’m on my way over there! I fly out March 8th. Please contribute in some way if you are able to…
