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| the Bay of Port-au-Prince and the Chaine des Mattheax in the distance. |
Since we've come back to Haiti is has been hot and dry in Port-au-Prince and all over much of Haiti. In fact, in the entire Caribbean is suffering under a drought supposedly caused by the El-Nino cycle in the Pacific. During the last two years, Haiti has not received a significant tropical storm system. This spring, the rainy season was painfully short as well. For these reasons, the dust has been so bad around our home that we have not seen a beautiful mountain-range to the north of our home called the Chaines des Mattheax in weeks. One evening after a short rain-shower, these mountains again appeared in the distance as the sun set. Please pray for Haitians who are suffering not only an historic drought, but a time of rapid inflation. The Haitian currency, the Gourde, has lost a fifth of its value in the last two months against the dollar. This is bad news since the vast majority of products in Haiti are imported in exchange for the USD. It seems like everything is getting more expensive by the day. As crops are failing across Haiti, increase in the cost of imports is especially troubling.
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