Wednesday, May 02, 2007

Here's some photos from a big tree planting that we did in Port-au-Prince. MCC contributed the trees, but the whole thing was organized by a Haitian youth organization called JUPED. There were about 100 students from schools in the area, and we walked around the neighborhoods in four big groups, planting trees in yards for whoever was interested.

This is before we hit the streets:





My little brigade of Johnny Appleseeds even had a banner. It reads: "No to trash! Yes to cleanliness!"





















Check out the poor kid who's about to get flicked on the ear.



After handing out all the trees, Matt led the kids in an exercise to help them think of trees as one part of a bigger environmental picture.