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Old 08-02-2007, 11:35 AM
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Where is this sosua dump? What are people doing there?

YouTube - ISV Dominican Republic - Dump and Hospital
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Old 08-02-2007, 08:26 PM
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... créole rythms..?

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Old 08-02-2007, 08:29 PM
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Wink It « sound's » like... !!!!!!!!!!!
Sorry for my bad english writing !!!

Holacanada from the French part of America !!!!
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Old 08-02-2007, 09:47 PM
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HolaCanada...Did you bother to watch the whole YouTube Video?

This is really disturbing and I am grateful that I would never have to be hospitalized like that.
I have heard of horror stories in public hospital in the Dominican Republic, but never saw it as graphic as this.
So, what was this group of young people doing there and what where they trying to accomplish?
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Old 08-02-2007, 10:10 PM
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Looks like a group of people from a church who are visiting and trying to help. They appeared to be offering whatever assistance or comfort they could.

I would not want to have to go to a public hospital here. I've seen much worse then this - try the emergency room at a public hospital - and I have seen better. It is very sad - substandard care caused by overwhelming numbers and not enough money.

Anyone who can gets private insurance so they go to private clinics.
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Old 08-02-2007, 11:41 PM
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Looks like another missionary group well-intentioned. Get off plane, check in at hotel, visit dump, hospital, school, whatever, shoot video, put on Utube, show compadres back home, learn they are very lucky. If this was the dump in Sosua it is behind La Union and is a REALLY big dump.
What are they doing there? Seeing poor folks struggling to survive. Maybe some of them will make a difference one day after the exposure. Better than spending a summer in the Hamptons sipping martinis....or checking into rehab again before school starts!
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Old 08-03-2007, 05:09 AM
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What are the poor people there doing? Are they collecting bottles or something? They aren't eating garbage? I'm also curious where this dump is near? I don't know Sosua well. However, when I was there I was in the tourist areas. Pedro Clisante, Sosua Beach and etc. From the video, I see these kids trying to comfort these people by singing songs and bringing food. The hospital looks horrible. Are all hospitals like that in DR?
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Old 08-03-2007, 06:13 AM
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What are the poor people there doing? Are they collecting bottles or something?
Any valuables they can find.

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They aren't eating garbage?
Yes they are.
They select what is still edible.

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I'm also curious where this dump is near?
tflea responded to this in his post above.
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Old 08-03-2007, 06:14 AM
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NY, next time you go to sosua get in a taxi and ride around outside of "tourist" sosua. it's a different scene...
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Old 08-03-2007, 06:16 AM
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NY, next time you go to sosua get in a taxi and ride around outside of "tourist" sosua. it's a different scene...
There's no doubt about that, but there's a danger that your post be interpreted to mean that people are eating garbage all over the country.
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