Posts Tagged binational
The Binational Musician
Posted by ONeil in Volunteering on October 23rd, 2009
Charlys on the Sax
Megan Rounseville, Volunteer
UPDATE: The Peace Corps Volunteers that worked with Charly have developed a website highlighting his school and are now collecting donations to support it through paypal.
I first met Charlys when he came to the Small Business Start-up Skills class I taught as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Dominican border town of Pedernales. Although a Dominican national, he felt strongly his Haitian roots. Three times a week he would cross the bridge into the Haitian town of Anse-a-Pitre. He would leave the Dominican community of Pedernales, where he lived in a cement house with running water and electricity and cross the border into the Haitian town of Anse-a-Pitre where nearly everyone lived in basic houses with no utilities and little employment. The border divided the two realities that defined who Charlys was—both Haitian and Dominican blood flowed in his veins.
