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On the final installment of Boukannen Dlo, we discuss the question we inevitably get when we return home to visit with friends and family: “How’s Haiti?” We’ve used the podcast to try to answer that question by presenting a few small slices of our own lives in Haiti, and this week we tackle that question head-on in our eighth and final episode.
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One obstacle that prevents foreigners from understanding what’s going on in Haiti is how difficult it is to visualize everyday Haitian life. Joining us today is Jon Bougher, a documentary filmmaker in Port-au-Prince and instructor at Haiti Reporters film school, where he helps train Haitian students in the art of visual storytelling. We’ve witnessed and admired Jon’s ability to connect with his subjects despite the various challenges of filming in Haiti. On this week’s episode, we hear about how he does it.
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On this week’s podcast we talk to two Haitian friends from our neighborhood, Jonas Pierre-Louis and Jean-Marc Vassa Joseph, about Haiti Positive, a book they’re working on that presents positive aspects of Haiti. We ask them about the book, their impressions of Americans and Europeans working to help Haitians, their thoughts on foreign journalists who cover Haiti, and their organization, ODUN, a Haitian-run scholarship program they helped establish to pay school fees for children.
