Valentine's Day Solidarity for Haiti and Japan in Creole and Japanese

As part of our Markets of Hope initiative to support the recovery of disaster affected communities through commercial and shared profit initiatives, we will announce this Friday a collection of products with candid love messages on Haitian Creole, Japanese, English and Spanish.

The sentences were provided by members of the Baocia community in the mountains outside Port-au-Prince. Although Baocia is only one hour from the city it is only accessible by 4x4 vehicles or long walks, and lacks schools, jobs and community centers, limiting the opportunities of its inhabitants, a large portion of which are forced by this conditions to leave the community and move to the city. Haiti Partners has been working for years with the community, currently completing the construction of a fully operational school, a commercial community bakery to be ran as a social business and a community center as well as as organic composting, agriculture and other community development projects.

Love sentences in Haitian Creole, Japanese, English and Spanish
(Comments, suggestions are welcome)

No.	English	Haitian Creole	Japanese	Spanish
1.	I love you	Mwen renmen w	愛してる	Te amo
2.	I'm crazy about you	Mwen fou pou ou	わたしはキミに夢中！	Estoy loco por ti
3.	You're my heart	Ou se kè mwen	キミは私の心だ	Eres mi corazón
4.	You're the rain that helps my plant grow	Ou se lapli ki fè plant mwen boujonnen	キミはわたしの人生に潤いを与え草花を育てる優しい雨だ	Eres la lluvia que hace mis plantas crecer
5.	You're my chocolate	Ou se chokola mwen	キミは私のチョコ♡	Eres mi chocolate
6.	You're more beautiful than the moon	Ou pi bèl pase lalin	キミは月よりずっと美しい♡	Eres más bella que la luna
7.	You're the sun that dry my branches every morning	Ou se solèy ki se cheche lawouze sou branch mwen chak maten	キミは毎朝喜びをもたらす太陽の光だ♡	Eres el sol que seca mis ramas cada mañana
8.	You're the beautiful roses that open up along side my road	Ou se pi bèl flè wòz ki leve bò wout mwen	キミは僕の人生を彩る美しいバラだ	Eres las rosas bellas que se abren junto a mi camino
9.	You're the chocolate I crave for all the time	Ou se chokola m anvi manje toutan	キミはわたしがいつも欲するチョコレート♡	Eres el chocolate que quiero todo el tiempo
10.	Your chocolate is the only medicine for my heart disease*	Chokola pa w se sel medikaman pou maladi ke m nan	キミのチョコレートはわたしの心痛を治す唯一の薬♡	Tu chocolate es la única medicina para mi mal del corazón
11.	Your chocolate is rare to find*	Chokola paw la se ra pou trouve	キミのチョコレートは宝もの	Tu chocolate es difícil de encontrar
12.	I found my chocolate	Mwen jwen chokola m nan	私の大事なチョコ、見つけた!	Encontré mi chocolate
13.	Your words are sweeter than honey	Pawòl nan bouch ou pi dous pase siwo myèl	キミの言葉ははちみつより甘い♡	Tus palabras son más dulces que la miel
14.	You're my Carnival*	Ou se kanaval pa m	キミはわたしのカーニバル！	Tú eres mi Carnaval
15.	Together we can do more	Ansanm nou kapab fè plis	みんなで一緒にやれば、もっと出来る	Juntos podemos más

* 10 and 11 are not that appealing in several of the languages, including Japanese and 14 doesn't make much sense in Japanese.

The sentences were collected and provided by Merline Engle, founder of WozoChoir and reviewed by John Engle and Alex Myril of Haiti Partners in Port-au-Prince. The Japanese translations were done by Eden Quayle and Yuka Tanaka in Fukuoka, Japan. We are still reviewing the sentences (spelling, wording, accents, etc.) and lack two translations as well. The early sketches have been prepared by Nahomi Sánchez of Yoyo Colectivo Creativo in Santo Domingo.

By Friday, the products will go on sale on-line. More details to follow.