We arrived at Jimani and drove through the town and about a half mile from the Haitian border is an Isla gas station where we met our counterparts that came from Haiti to take delivery of the truck and supplies.
We delivered a small truck filled with tools for reconstruction, food and medicines. We also had a passenger, Robert Hokanson. He was traveling to Haiti to establish work opportunities and train individuals through the Career Workshop and Small Business Course.
This is the truck with the supplies inside that we delivered. We dropped off Robert and picked up Steve Roberts, who was returning from Haiti and took him back to the area office and then on to the airport and back to Salt Lake City.
This is a banana wholesaler truck loaded with the fresh goods. Shop owners would drive their pick up trucks here to buy bananas. It was quiet most of the time, until someone came to buy bananas, then it got a little louder and bargaining got into full swing. They would count every banana and drop them on the ground to make a pile and then pay for them and then throw them into the pick up and off to their store to sell them. It was hard to believe that a half mile a way was a country with a major crisis.
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