Spencer back from Haiti

Spencer arrived back from Haiti alive and well and full of stories. This was the Youth for Human Rights Tour. They met with various Haitian Government and UN agencies. I'll get him to write his stories so that I can post some here. Hopefully, he'll also put some these stories on his MySpace page. He has some of his pictures posted at Spencer's MySpace Page. Find the "pics" link beneath the Picture over on the left. Then you will see the Picture link for the Haiti pictures. I've included one here.

He loved the trip and met some really great people. He said there are a lot of wonderful people that really are trying to improve conditions there.

Enjoy the pictures. We'll get some stories up soon.

Love,
Martin

Human Rights

We dropped son Spencer off at the Tampa airport this morning. He's on his way to Haiti. He will be working with a UN delegation promoting Human Rights. He is going as a representative of the Youth For Human Rights organization. He will be there for a week doing all the photography and video for the program. Spencer was picked from about 20 people for this trip. It is very exciting for him. Haiti is a beautiful country but politically and economically pretty depressed. And it is one of the poorest countries in the Western World. The group is going there because of the many human rights violations. They are doing what they can to help the new government in this respect. Spencer told me that he will be with UN bodyguards the whole time he is there. This is quite a cool project.

Spencer has been making films since he was 11 years old and also taking pictures for the last few. You can see some of his pictures here: Spencer Jones (I hope this link works.)

He will obviously be taking hundreds (if not thousands) of pictures of Haiti and we'll let you know when they can be viewed online.

:)
Martin