For the past four years, Jackson’s travels have taken him, about once a month, to Haiti, where he has set up homes and service centers for street children. These now include an orphanage, with seven children, and a home for children with AIDS, with ten, in Port-au-Prince’s scabrous Cité Soleil section. There’s a naive, blundering quality to Jackson — whom New Times dubbed “Saint Aaron” two years ago in a cover story — that somehow overcomes all the obvious obstacles to pulling off his clearly lunatic plans.
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