Worldview Magazine - Fall 2007 - (Page 35)

with every poor, desperate, dirty person on the street. I was an obvious target naively jockeying through the cluttered streets bound to end up calling my friends for $100,000 any day now. I’ve often thought of writing instructions for how my ransom should play out. The kidnapping procedure always includes some bargaining and I wouldn’t want my culturally ignorant negotiators paying too much. But now I’m less and less about planning for a ransom or preventing my kidnapping. The UN peacekeeping mission apparently now controls Cite Soleil, the capital’s worst slum and the kidnappers’ base of operations. The Haitian police are a stronger presence on the streets and suspected ringleaders are being rounded up by the UN force and by Haiti’s police. Foreigners like me aren’t alone in their concern about kidnappings. Haitians without security entourages are the most common victims and their fear fuels others. Enock Michel, a young Haitian student, told me he was getting a shoeshine on Delmas, the city’s main road, when a man who looked like a gangster stopped to admire Enock’s stylish appearance. Enock sensed a threat and looked for a policeman but could only see a few men he guessed were friends of his suspicious admirer. Enock quickly paid for the shoeshine and left, looking back for his pursuers, breaking into a run and leaving behind a real threat, or his own paranoia. Haiti is an enigma to me. Even while I heard about the restoration of order, three armed men pulled a young Haitian friend out of her car right in front of her house as she, her sister and her mother were returning home from a free Alpha Blondie concert. The message of the concert was lay down your weapons and find peace. The family paid a ransom but the kidnappers still haven’t released her. Maybe the TSA really does know something I don’t. Matt Marek is country representative for the Red Cross in Port-au-Prince and co-founder and a consultant for Haiti Innovation at www.haitiinnovation.org. Marek served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Haiti from 2000 to 2002. The world is their classroom. Washington Montessori Institute at Loyola College in Maryland Graduate Programs in Montessori Education Offering the Master of Education (M.Ed.) degree combined with an internationally recognized AMI diploma. Primary Course (ages 3–6) Janet McDonell, M.Ed., Director of Primary Training Elementary Course (ages 6–12) Kay Baker, Ph.D., Director of Elementary Training Programs offered in Columbia, Maryland, just minutes from the Capital Beltway. Now accepting applications for academic year courses in both Primary and Elementary for programs starting in Fall 2008. In addition, accepting applications for the multi-summer format in Elementary for Summer 2008. To learn more about Montessori teacher training opportunities, please contact Graduate Admissions, Phone: 800-221-9107, ext. 5020, http:// graduate.loyola.edu/wmiinfo In affiliation with the Association Montessori Internationale, Amsterdam, Netherlands. AMI A low-residency program that combines faculty-mentored, individualized learning with a challenging interdisciplinary core curriculum degree Quarterly residencies Learner-centered focus Distinguished faculty Academic Mentoring Integration of theory and practice Flexibility of pace to completion www. WorldView 35 http://graduate.loyola.edu/wmiinfo http://graduate.loyola.edu/wmiinfo http://www.phd.antioch.edu http://www.phd.antioch.edu http://www.haitiinnovation.org

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Worldview - Fall 2007 Contents Presiden'ts Note Lafayette Park Introduction Interview Commentary Editor's Note Letter from Rumbek, Sudan Listings Letter from Yekaterinburg, Russia Letter from Codaesti, Romania Letter from Catia La Mar, Venezuela Letter from Gumare, Botswana Letter from Ridder, Kazakhstan Letter from Rincon, Cape Verde Letter from Port Au Prince Another Country Community News Giving Back Opinion

Worldview Magazine - Fall 2007

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