The Little Caribbean Country Of Haiti Leads The World In Solar Powered Solutions...

The little Caribbean country of Haiti,
the first independent nation of Latin America, has a colourful past, often fraught with internal problems from the time it was established after a successful slave revolt in 1804, is leading the world with it's pioneering solar application.
Haiti has just opened the world's biggest solar powered hospital in Mirebalais,
north of Port-au-Prince.
Quite remarkable for a little country where 20 percent of its population  of ten million people has no access to electricity.
Opening just last month, the 1800 solar panels they've installed generate enough power to run six surgical suites, enough to attend to over sixty thousand patients and already deliver more than eight hundred babies.
Maintaining electricity supply in hospitals is a matter of life and death and while it's fortunate that Haiti is blessed with a great deal of sunshine, they are showing the way
to the rest of the world...

Thankyou Gabriel Garcia Marquez For The Way You Wrote Your Wonderful Words...

Thankyou for the way you wrote your wonderful words Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
Thankyou for giving us
The Story Of The Shipwrecked Sailor.
Thankyou for The Autumn Of The Patriarch.
Thankyou for Love In A Time Of Cholera.
Thankyou for One Hundred Years Of Solitude.
As you enter yours. Rest In Peace...

If You Think You've Seen And Heard It All. Have A Look And Listen To The Children Of Paraguay's Recycled Orchestra...

A community like Cateura is not a place you'd normally find a violin.
It would be worth more than a house.
Cateura is a small city in Paraguay that sits literally on top of a massive garbage dump.
It's regarded as one of the poorest slums in Latin America.
Some might also say it's one of the richest. Once again we see a wonderful example of necessity being the mother of invention.
Prospects for the children of Cateura are bleak with drugs and gangs being the easy option.
One day, Nicolas Gomez found a bit of garbage that resembled a violin. He showed it to his friend and musician Favis Chavez. Using other bits collected from the rubbish, the two men made a violin. Inspired, they set about making other instruments.
Nineteen year old Juan Manuel Chavez known as Bebi plays the cello. Beautifully. His cello was made from an old oil can and bits of wood. The pegs are made from an old tool that was used to tenderise meat.
There's a wonderful short video you can watch and more to inspire dreams, here.
The world sends us garbage says the orchestra's director Favio Chavez.
We send back music...