Haitian Family

Joseph Phillippe Lemercier Laroche, his wife and daughters - The only interracial couple on board RMS Titanic

The only interracial couple on board RMS Titanic was Haitian engineer Joseph Phillippe Lemercier Laroche and his wife Juliette Lafargue. They were accompanied by their two daughters.

They made it. He did not.

Lemercier Laroche was the only black man to perish in the Titanic but he had a chance to save his family first.

Leonardo DiCaprio's role in the movie TITANIC could have easily been played by a Black man and it would have been historically accurate.

The story of this interracial family onboard RMS TItanic was not known until 2000, three years after the movie Titanic was released.

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Lieutenant Galbeau Saint Preux and his Grandsons

Here is a photo of Galbeau St Preux and his two grandsons Woodring Dior and Woodring Pilippe

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CHITAI Haiti - In Vitro Fertilization

The Haitian Centre of Investigation and Advanced Treatment of Infertility is dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of reproductive problems including infertility and repeated abortions.

Initiative of a group of Haitian doctors, specialists in infertility, CHITAI in partnership with Duke University offers an alternative to the thousands of men and women who will no longer have to leave the Haiti for treatment in a foreign land.

CHITAI offers to the Haitian population, a wide range of modern services for the treatment of infertility.

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A Father and His new born Baby

Here is a photo of Woodring the father feeding Woodring, his new born baby

Yeah... Yeah... Yeah...

I named my son Woodring, after me... People saying I am copying Georges Forman.

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A Tent City without Grass and Pavement, It is a Pigsty

Without grass and pavement, when the rain comes in a Haitian tent city, it will become a pigsty!

Without Grass, When it rains in Haiti, the soil becomes wet and muddy.

Read this from education.com:

"Grasslands have some protection from wind and water erosion (the process by which materials of Earth's surface are broken down and carried away by natural agents, such as wind and water) because of their grass covering. Grasses have fibrous roots, which are roots that have no main section but spread out into the soil in all directions. Fibrous roots are thin and form a tangled mass in shallow soil. This mass helps to hold the soil together, so wind and water do not easily erode the soil."

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