The last one we visited, I don't remember the name currently, was about 15 min off any type of paved surface. The village itself had no roads. The people there, mostly Haitians, lived in places worse than shacks. It was tough to even see how they live.
We met one little boy in one of the villages who rod knew from the school. The boy asked us where we were going after seeing his village and we told him we were going to Macao beach. He said that he had only been to the beach 3 times in his whole life. Mind you we are less then 3 miles from the water.
The people here have no way to get there and the resorts try to keep the Dominicans out as much as possible.
Rod told the boy that he would take the boy to see a man named Roberto when it warmed up and he could learn to surf.
A little about Roberto is that he is a Christian man who owns the surf shop at Macao beach. A nice silver haired man who is as nice as possible. If your ever I. The area stop by and say hi to him.
I know I haven't talked much about water in this post but I wanted to save it for last. Outside of the villages people throw their trash along side of the road and then they burn it. Plastic bottles and all. It's toxic stuff but they don't know any better. Even way off the beaten path the villages still use 5 gallon jugs for water.
I was blow. Away by the fact that everywhere we went had water running to the homes but everyone said this water was only good to wash with and water the plants. Somehow this is considered an improved water source and it just baffles me.
We need to reduce the amount of plastic bottles that just get discarded here. We can do that by giving them clean water. We must raise awareness about this problem.
I am sorry for not having pictures of all that I'm talking about. They are on my camera and I can't connect it to my iPhone here. There are pictures though I promise
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