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The girl needs a truck!

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So I have made the acquaintance of yet another independent intelligent woman. A very interesting woman someone who is convinced that an impoverished nation like Haiti is worth living in while working at improving the conditions of the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. She is someone who sees the hopelessly poor people in rural Haiti as the part of the social spectrum of this tiny country on which to focus. She does see a future for Haiti but there is a lot to do in the present so much that the future is far in the distance damn near beyond the horizon. Her  name is Laura Allan and she is the head of Shelters International Disaster Response a very small ngo operating out of Jacmel Haiti. Besides being the poorest and one of the most corrupt countries in the Western Hemisphere it lays in hurricane alley so the tension on this Island,  no matter the sociopolitical atmosphere,  rises as June comes and with it the hurricane season. Because of poor to no infrastructure a lar