{"id":3751,"date":"2010-09-17T17:41:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-17T22:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/?guid=6c3311784d485720c143cdfbd53321f1"},"modified":"2010-09-17T17:41:43","modified_gmt":"2010-09-17T22:41:43","slug":"the-aid-community-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/2010\/09\/17\/the-aid-community-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Aid Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I got out of the work area Sun Mountain has carved out of the poolside lounge at the Hotel Villa Creole.&nbsp; Workers from a gamut of organization from the Red Cross on meet, Skype, and make mobile calls around the city and the hemisphere.<\/p>\n<p>The hotel itself, known as HVC by those staying there, carries wounds from the January 12 earthquake and some of the employees live in tents on the grounds. <\/p>\n<p>I went out with Scott, the Sun Mountain director and Hans, one of the team members, to visit a number of organizations, starting with Worldvision, in the process meeting Haitians, Asian Americans, South Asians and Middle Easterners serving as staff.&nbsp; In some cases, we had appointments and in others we stopped by hoping to catch folks.&nbsp; Driving around in a vehicle marked IOM, for International Organization for Migration, we saw small SUVs (everyone seemed to be in one) with letters indicating UN (DP or OP),&nbsp; USAID (US Agency for International Development), CRS (Catholic Relief Services),&nbsp; CHF (Cooperative Housing Foundation) or the aforementioned Worldvision.<\/p>\n<p>Part of the reason for the trips was for Scott to confirm partnerships for documents being finalized or already completed and also for me to meet some people that I may need to contact for later assignments.<\/p>\n<p>Dinner was structured around discussion of a displaced persons settlement that would incorporate best practices.&nbsp; The consultation took place mainly between Scott and a representative from the UN supervising the camp development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I got out of the work area Sun Mountain has carved out of the poolside lounge at the Hotel Villa Creole.&nbsp; Workers from a gamut of organization from the Red Cross on meet, Skype, and make mobile calls around the city and the hemisphere.Th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3751"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4326,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3751\/revisions\/4326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}