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Cinder Block: Petit-Frere and Jean

cinder block: Jean Caleb Petit-Frere waits for his mother, Rose Marie Petit-Frere, after shopping at a street market in Croix-des-Bouquets, Haiti, according to Toronto Star. His motorbike was purchased with money his father, Jean Felix Petit-Frere, sent from his job at Butterball. Jean Felix Petit-Frere, a 63-year-old grandfather, has paid for the house's every cinder block, walls that keep his wife of 37 years, two daughters, son-in-law, mother-in-law and granddaughter safe from the chaos and slums that surround them. Petit-Frere is one of the only people in his municipality to wear a helmet on the crowded roads. He lives in North Carolina, working at the world's largest turkey-processing plant, Butterball's facility in the small town of Mount Olive. Dieu Nalio Chery / The Washington Post But Petit-Frere has never set foot in the house. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.