They intend to return to Haiti, and stay there for life.
But first, Jamie and Ali McMutrie will go back to the Caribbean nation as early as Wednesday to continue their push to bring to the United States 11 orphans who remain at BRESMA orphanage in Port-au-Prince. In time, the sisters say they want to buy property with a Haitian partner and build an orphanage to replace the one the Jan. 12 earthquake destroyed.
‘We definitely want to be there forever,’ Jamie McMutrie, 30, said in an interview Monday with the Tribune-Review.
People constantly ask why she’s drawn to Haiti, said her sister Ali, 22.
‘It’s the people, the culture,’ she said. ‘As soon as you get there, you get the Haiti bug. It’s something strange that I’ll never be able to explain…
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