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0 Soles for Souls

  • 2013-06-04
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  • · ART-IVISM · Haiti Support

These are boxes of shoes in our grandparents garage. Our garage was filled with them as well.

They go to kids in Haiti, like these guys who are showing off their new shoes!

These kids live at an orphanage in Kenscoff, Haiti, called “Little Brothers and Sisters”. This is us chillin’ with some of them last year.

We played a show there too…

Even though we went to visit them with all our music gear, getting it there wasn’t easy… and getting shoes there wasn’t easy either.

There were lots of cool people that helped out. In our case, the people at the Dymon Group helped out by taking care of the shipping… we brought them a truck full of shoes after the earthquake… and they are STILL doing it, through http://www.soles4soulscanada.com/

You can help too if you check out your closets and find shoes and boots that you no longer wear.  Local donations (Ottawa) can be made at all Dymon Storage, Bridgehead and Kiddie Kobbler locations throughout Ottawa, as well as Ottawa City Hall and numerous City of Ottawa recreation facilities.

Be a good soul!

0 Haiti trip update – day 6 (Apr 8, 2012)

  • 2012-04-08
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  • · Brothers Dube · Haiti Support · Past performances

So, at 9, 10 and 12, we raised over $150,000 playing music in the streets and donated it to Haiti. Then, we decided to come here to film the lives of kids and share it in classrooms, using rock and roll. We’ve been here 5 days and today we went to Kenscoff, back into the back of the truck for another drive through Haiti…

We visited Our Little Brothers and Sisters Orphanage

and played a show…

After the show, we ate and slept with the orphans, to get an idea of what life is like for them.

0 Haiti Trip Update April 07 Day 5

  • 2012-04-07
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  • · Haiti Support

Click to see PHOTOS OF DAY 5

Today we got up at 4 am, to catch the early morning in Port-au-Prince. It was pretty cool… Later in the morning, we visited the home of our chauffeur, the tent city of Champ de Mars, and the House of Hope Orphanage in Gressiers. It was a very long day, and in the heat, it was tiring. We filmed those three locations and are learning more and more every day about the ways people can help in Haiti.

On our first stop, we went to Armand’s (our chauffeur’s) house. He has three kids. His home was destroyed in the earthquake, after which he slept in the street for some time. He is now trying to rebuild a new home and needs sand, cement, paint, and the labour to finish it. The total cost for completing his home would be $500. In the meantime, he lives in a tent with three beds. His sons go to school and he pays for their education. Anderson, his 18 year-old son, is in grade 3, lives in a shed, and sleeps on a piece of folded carpet. The shed leaks when it rains. To us, it’s crazy to imagine our garden shed as an incredible ‘upgrade’ for Anderson. Anderson loves singing. He’s into reggae and loves Sean Paul.

Armand’s access to water will be shut off soon because he owes payments. He has a vehicle that he would like to fix but can’t because it would cost $1500 that he doesn’t have. Armand has a job and earns money, and is slowly dealing with the realities of life that so many around the world deal with… making the sacrifices to improve our conditions.

Armand then drove us to the tent city of Champ de Mars. We walked inside the city with our cameras to film and interview people. The experience was a little frightening. Things can get out of hand very fast in any situation like this and we had to be careful. We found a man who agreed to allow us to interview him and film inside his tent. We got his name on camera, but we haven’t reviewed the recording yet. While we interviewed there was lots of activity around us, so we were a little distracted and will later see how the interview turns.

After Champs de Mars, we drove to Gressier, a 20km ride from Port-au-Prince, on the coast. We finally saw the sea and also caught some cool street art (we hadn’t seen ANY) along the way at the Port-au-Prince cemetary! We toured the House of Hope and interviewed the owner, Alice. Alice was great at answering all our questions and helping us better understand the orphanage, its projects, and their next steps: getting 50 beds and mattresses into the new girls dorm.

We then drove home, went for a swim, posted, ate and went to sleep, after the rah rahs moved around (there’s lots of street parties now because it’s the Easter holiday). A rah rah (Ra Ra, Ra-Ra, has different spellings) is a spontaneous street party with music that just moves around the neighbourhood. Check it out in the video below.

0 Haiti Trip Update April 06 Day 4

  • 2012-04-06
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  • · Haiti Support
Click to see PHOTOS of DAY 4
SHOW UPDATE: Brothers Dube are scheduled to play for Orphans at Little Brothers and Sisters (LBS) Orphanage Easter Sunday at 3pm, Kenscoff, Haiti. After touring Ireland in Sept 2011 to raise money for this orphanage, the orphanage located a PA and sound equipment for us to play a show.  We will use the same instruments we used after the earthquake to raise $150,000 in the streets of Ottawa. We will donate those instruments to the Haiti Music School on our way to the airport on Tuesday. We donated our entire home studio, including drums, drum hardware, two electric guitars, a bass, microphones and mic stands. We priced the value of these instruments in Canada, to see whether it would be better to bring cash and buy instruments here, but because they are in such good condition, we brought them.
In addition to this, Musicare in Carlsbad Springs, Ontario donated two clarinets, two cornets (trumpets), and two alto saxophones and Domenic’s Academy of Music in Orleans, Ontario donated two brand new classical guitars that we used on Wednesday’s workshop with the Haiti Music School. Also several individuals donated instruments (Joanne, Barbara, Claire, and Craig).
We spent the entire day today filming our host family’s daily lives. We learned about them, getting water in the morning, making coffee, cleaning clothes, and the house. We asked them questions that our friends at school had recorded on their iPhones and we asked questions that people sent us on Twitter and Facebook (thanks!). After that, we invited them back to the hotel where they could go for a swim and have something to eat where we finished interviews on the rooftop. We returned to their home and went for a walk in the neighbourhood, came home, posted, went for a swim again and crashed.

0 Prime Minister Stephen Harper Commendation for Our Work in Haiti

  • 2012-04-06
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  • · Haiti Support · Workshop

Prime Minister Stephen Harper kindly supported our work and gave us a commendation for our work in Haiti. Someday, we will get on stage with him and do a gig. He does play music!

We continue to accept donations here: Click to Donate.

0 Haiti Trip Update April 05 Day 3

  • 2012-04-05
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  • · Haiti Support · Photo

Click to see PHOTOS DAY 3

Today, we drove 2 hours into the mountains of the plush central plains of Haiti, along an insane mountain road that would make our logging road to the cottage look like an expressway…. we went in the back of a pickup truck, in which we now logged many hours, like a second home.

 

We visited the villages and villagers of Baille Touribe, an impoverished farming area. Here, we are handing out supplier donated by our schools, Ecole Secondaire Garneau and Ecole Etoile de L’Est http://vimeo.com/39917491. Here’s a Gloucester Hornets jersey being handed out to a very happy child.

 

Met with the Kanpe people, learned what they are doing for children and to educate families about medicine, managing finances, agriculture, and business to become self-sufficient and autonomous. Kanpe has an excellent approach to helping people – teach a man to fish and he eats for LIFE.

At Baille Touribe, we met the principal who is building a school. The construction workers get paid by Kanpe, but the principal volunteers his time. The school opens on April 12. 350 kids attend the existing school, 400o more need schooling.

Outside the Kanpe location, we saw the cholera tents where thousands of people were treated for the deadly disease. Of those thousands who were treated, 8 died. We got a tour of the whole place, with LOTS OF DETAILS!!! Details are important because without them, there’s a risk that people don’t know where their money goes. We know where the money goes… Kanpe was very helpful in letting us understand.

We distributed more of the school and personal supplies donated to us by École secondaire catholique Garneau and L’école élémentaire catholique L’Étoile-de-l’Est. The people who received the supplies were absolutely delighted. For them, this was a very big thing, so important and helpful, we are grateful to participate in this whole thing.

By the way, Kanpe totally rocks… their philosophy, their attitude… we loved the time we spent with them.  Big shout out to Kanpe!!!

0 Haiti Trip Update April 04 Day 2

  • 2012-04-04
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  • · Haiti Support

Click to see PHOTOS DAY 2.

Today, we got up at 4:45 in the morning to video record the amazing sunrise, and the beginning of our family’s day. Then we met Kim, a CBC reporter, at the United nations (UN) post near the airport, and then we met Ruben from MAIS (a Brazilian organization that does NGO work in Haiti). Hooking up in Haiti isn’t like hooking up in Canada… Traffic plays a big role in deciding if and when you get to a destination, so it’s important to manage things with your cell phone.

Ruben took us into an impoverished area, where we met Remy who runs the Haiti Music School, located in Clercine. He started teaching music to kids in the camps WITHOUT INSTRUMENTS…. Imagine how hard that is, teaching music theory without instruments to kids in an impoverished camp. Remy REALLY believes in music. One day, some musicians (of course!) heard about this and said, “Hey wait, you should really have some music equipment!!!” and gave him some instruments. These musicians were The Ortega Brothers from Brazil – three brothers who help the world through their music – sound familiar? When we arrived at the music school, Remy asked us to give a workshop to the kids, who come mostly from the tent city of Pax Villa. We showed them how to sing and play “Bye,” a tune from our album. Remy wanted us to stay and eat with the children, but we had to leave to travel to Thomonde to visit the good folks of Kanpe. This means we must come back to the Haiti Music School someday soon…

Oh yeah, a cool moment of the day was when the kids in the music school all sang the chorus of Bye together in harmony. Here is the location of the school on Google Maps: http://maps.google.ht/maps?q=18.574001,-72.288188&hl=en&num=1&t=k&z=20

We were invited to play at the Hotel Oloffson where Arcade Fire played in March 2011 BUT we were SO bagged, we couldn’t even jam. We had to crash cuz we were getting up at 5 again… it’s worth the work though.

0 Haiti Trip Update April 03 Day 1

  • 2012-04-03
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  • · Haiti Support

With the help of the Haitian Ambassador’s letter and the RCMP in Port-au-Prince we cleared through the Diplomatic Lounge with every single bag. We forgot one last bag because we were too tired to remember that it didn’t have a group ticket.

Staff at Air Canada were awesome every step of the way…. can’t thank you all enough… The ground crew were high fiving the kids on the runway!!! Flore, the Customer Service Manager in Ottawa has been fabulous.  She called our coordination team at home to ensure that we received the tag number for that last bag. The message got through. The staff took us into the special bag area and we found it… Yay! Flore continued to stay in touch to ensue that everything went fine for us in Haiti. Folks at AC came together to help us by waiving our baggage restraints, checking our barrage of supplies through and just being supportive!!! We felt the love. You might hear our thanks again before this trip is over.

Today, we met the family, Marcel and Marise Fleurant Tislin and their children, who we are filming “a day in the life” with and we went out to enjoy a dinner together to get to know each other. After dinner, we came back to our hotel, Le Marcelin, all 13 of us flying through the night in the back of a pickup truck. What a great ice breaker!
Click for more details about Marcel and Marise et en français.
Wednesday morning at 5 a.m. we will film sunrise and the morning life of our host family. Then the CBC joins us at the Haiti School of Music at 9:00 a.m.

0 Music Equipment Donated to Haiti

  • 2012-04-01
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  • · Haiti Support

We would like to thank people who kindly gave music instruments so that kids in Haiti might have a lift up:

  • Musicare: 2 clarinets, 2 cornets, 2 alto saxophones, 1 flute, cases, and accessories
  • Domenic’s Academy of Music: 2 guitars and 1 accordion
  • Claire: Ukelele
  • Chantal: Classical guitar
  • Joanne: Acoustic guitar
  • Barb: Keyboard and Djembe
  • Lori: 2 guitars
  • Craig: Electric bass, bongo drum, hand drum

To ensure that the kids in Haiti really get all that they need, we decided to donate our entire studio equipment. This includes an electric bass, electric guitar, microphones, microphone stands, a complete drum kit, and keyboard.  Much of this equipment was used to busk to raise money over the past two years… we know we’ll busk again and people will help us to replace this equipment.  Things always work out…

0 Notre famille hôte en Haïti

  • 2012-03-27
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  • · Haiti Support

(English)

Nous avons de bonnes nouvelles….nous sommes heureux de vous annoncer qu’une famille haïtienne a accepté de faire partie de notre film « Un jour dans la vie ». Je vous présente Marcel et Marise Fleurant Tislin, et leurs enfants Rachèle (18 ans), Fabiola (16 ans), Alexandra (15 ans), Marline (14 ans), Marceline (13 ans), and Marc Henri (6 ans) (voir photo ci-bas).

Leur maison était détruite lors du tremblement de terre en 2010 et ils vivent maintenant dans une maison qui a été érigée par un organisme de secourisme. Marcel était chauffeur mais sa voiture était détruite et il n’avait pas d’assurance. Il gagne maintenant 10.00$ par jour comme chauffeur à temps partiel. Une voiture usagée pour l’aider à travailler à temps plein et nourrir sa famille lui coûterait environ 9,000$-10,000$.

Chaque enfant va à une école différente puisqu’ils devaient aller à une école où il y avait de la place. L’Éducation….c’est TOUT!

Rachelle, 18 ans, et Fabiola, 16 ans, les deux sont en 9ème année au Lycée (“Lycée” veut dire école) Jean Jacques Dessalines, une marche de 40 minutes, les classes se donnent de midi à 17 h. Les frais de scolarité sont environ 13.00$ par année.

Alexandra, 15 ans, est en 6 ème année, à l’École Nationale Claire Heureuse (notre équipe de planification qui est allée sur place a interviewé la Directrice de l’école). C’est une marche de 30 minutes, les classes se donnent de 8h à midi. Puisque c’est une école publique, il n’y a pas de frais de scolarité.
Marline, 14 ans, est en 8 ème année au Centre Classique Pythagore, une marche de 30 minutes, les classes se donnent de midi à 17h. Les frais de scolarité sont environ 130.00$ par année.

Marceline, 13 ans, est en 5 ème année, à St Louis de Bourdon, une marche de 15 minutes, les classes se donnent de midi  à 17h. Les frais de scolarité sont 57.00$ par année.

Marc Henri, 6 ans, est en 1ème année, à République des États-Unis, une marche de 5 minutes, les classes se donnent de 8h à midi.
Marcel and Marise Fleurant doivent dépenser un total d’environ 220.00$ par année pour l’éducation de leurs enfants.

De nos jours, on met l’accent sur l’éducation en Haïti. Le programme vient tout juste de commencer, donc les enfants qui ne sont jamais allés à l’école doivent commencer en 12ème année. Il y a des enfants âgés de 12 ans en 2ème année avec des enfants de 6 et 7 ans. Même si l’école est GRATUITE, ils n’ont pas toutes les fournitures dont ils ont besoin pour bien apprendre. Imaginez une marche d’une heure le matin pour se rendre à l’école, l’estomac vide, et avoir assez d’énergie pour apprendre… et ce, sans livres ni crayons. Ils parlent Créole, et un peu français.

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