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Editor's note: Philippe Devos, The Globe's deputy foreign editor, is in Jacmel, Haiti to lay the ground work for the second phase of Project Jacmel. These are his recent posts to Twitter. You can follow him at www.twitter.com/pdevos, on the Project Jacmel blog and the main project page.





about 9 hours ago

Artist Ambroise Anderson taught these kids in Jacmel how to make kites using bamboo and sugar sacks.





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about 16 hours

Bet your mobile doesn't have this feature: legs. For those without a mobile. It comes to you, 12 cent/call.

about 20 hours ago

Quick stop for some maintenance to The Globe's ride in Jacmel. about 20 hours ago via UberTwitter





about 21 hours ago

Met with director of a very active children's art foundation, that I hope we can partner with. The quake hasn't stopped them at all. via UberTwitter



about 22 hours

Ship appeared in bay off Jacmel overnight, but looks too high in the water to have much cargo.



5:17 PM Mar 21st

Group taxi (tap-tap/cammionette) got in the way of this shot of Cdn. convoy, looked like they'd just left Leogane.



5:12 PM Mar 21st

Road to Jacmel like 1 long tent city until the mountains; 2 were organized aid efforts, the rest shanty towns, +2 months post quake.



1:51 PM Mar 21st

Distinctive yellow and red Cdn. chopper still at the airport, and a Cdn. military transport plane too, but it looked to be leaving.





1:42 PM Mar 21st

The terminal was abandoned, except for the band. For immigration and baggage, we were taken to a hanger with makeshift walls and fresh paint

1:38 PM Mar 21st

I've mixed feelings about a tropical band greeting us with music at the terminal. What's next? A rum cocktail

1:18 PM Mar 21st

You know it's not a typical Caribbean airport arrival when your American Airlines plane parks next to this.



8:44 AM Mar 21st

The usual giddy energy of boarding-gate waiting areas is missing from this one, as I board the flight to Port-au-Prince.



7:49 PM Mar 20th

On the plane at Pearson, 7 minutes from take-off, with enough computers, cameras and gear to start my own newspaper in #Jacmel, #Haiti

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