still in o'kap

so, just as my gig w/ nouvelle vie in cap haitien was up, and just as i was about to jet and start a new job w/ an org in port-au-prince, i was asked to replace the country director & stick around through march and maybe beyond.  hmmmmm.  i figured, why not?  i already have a feel for the program and i love the youth corps, so what the heck.  and now, here i am.

i'm not sure what my job title or description is, exactly, but i help out w/ a number of things.  i do the budgeting (blah), translate when needed, teach various classes here and there and i help w/ logistical planning.  however, the bulk of my work (and the main attraction for me) is helping to launch a commercial composting project (funded by US AID) in the local marketplace.  we're setting up a composting site right in the market & we're gonna take all the organic waste from the market and the surrounding households, run it through the thermal composting process for 2 weeks, then put it through a second round of worm compost (if we can get the worms).  the final product will be the best fertilizer you can get, so we're gonna bag it up and sell it.  we're also doing a lot of urban/container gardening, so we're going to do a veggie nursery on the market site as well, to exhibit how to grow healthy new veggies in the city using old food waste.  composting is a relatively new phenomenon here in haiti, so we'll be doing a lot of sensitization in the community.  the plan, for now, is for me to be here (in cap haitien) through march and with nouvelle vie possibly through may.  whether i'm getting paid or not is still unknown, though, and is one determining factor.

anyhow, i'm keeping myself happy and healthy.  check out this link to the nouvelle vie blog .  they gave me a nice shout out.  ;)