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traffic with people banging on your door, and all you’re thinking about is how long will it be until we get to our destination,” Bridgit recalls. “But in hindsight, when you get back and hear about fatalities, it’s really scary. The more impoverished the area, the more you get hit up.” Dan Budd also notes that sometimes, their timing could be better. “Elections in Haiti are held in October,” he says. “You don’t want to be in Haiti on election day because of the riots. We know from experience.” Yet despite the primitive conditions, the underlying danger, the annual illness they acquire (which they fondly call the Haitian flu), Dan Budd and Bridgit-Stone Budd wouldn’t think of not coming back for more. “It was frustrating for me in the beginning,” Bridgit says. “I didn’t see anything good coming of it. It was like two steps forward, three steps back because of the vandalism. But now, I see progress and when I see one educated child, lifted up from the mess down there, that’s enough for me.” Her husband agrees. “I wouldn’t want it any other way, and I’m thankful we have the privilege to do this.”
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