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Gainesville artist teaches Haitians to paint mural using recycled trash
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The palms of the tree for the mural were made by tracing the local children’s hands on paper and cutting them out.
When Cathy Little heard there was plenty of garbage lining the streets of the rural Haitian town she was preparing to visit, she didn’t think of it as offensive or unsanitary. Her only thought was of color and which shades she might find among the discarded items. Little recently went to Martin, Haiti, a small community about 120 miles from Port-au-Prince, with other missionaries from Chestnut Mountain Presbyterian Church in Flowery Branch, and Haiti H2O, a ministry that leads short-term missions and partners churches in the U.S. with churches in Haiti.