Zarien Like you, I have children in Haiti with college...

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Zarien

Like you, I have children in Haiti with college education, I have sisters, lots of nephews and niecess, and friends there in Haiti too. I try my best to make at least one trip to Haiti every year. I have created, in 1995, a big humanitarian project in my home in hometown that is providing health care for very little to those who can afford at least 2 gourdes and free of charge those who cannot really afford it. There is also an education component that is giving training to teachers, helping with school supplies, and I was able to manage to find people from the states to sponsor at least one child for school from grade school all the way to college.

There is an economic development in it as well that is giving grants or loans to local farmers to form cooperatives and help growning products locally.

Zarien, the group of people you mentioned that make it and doing well in Haiti, were successfull, I'm sure, with the financial help of families and friends living abroad.

One of my children with a college education has a passion to be a paramedic.

Well, he has had a lot of training, but cannot find employment because there is any available, he is now volunteering at the Haitian Red Cross.

I am sure there are some good successfull stories to tell about some people who made in Haiti without government and the elite help, but there story of those who don't make it and cannot make it is much greater.

You said that the elite doesn't do enough, and I say the Haitian elite doesn't do anything at all for Haiti.

No one on this blog cannot name one person from the elite who is doing something for Haiti whether is about donating money to a school, or financing a project, or take on a good cause, or paying school tuitions for some kids, and the list goes on and on.

The elite, however, would take a kid off the street and uses that kid as their slave (domestik, restavek).

If the elite and some people consider that as helping a kid to get a better life then the elite indeed doing a lot for Haiti and her children.

ZArien, I understand perfectly your rational because I asked myself that same question sometimes, why do people in Haiti learn a trade to support themeselves instead of relying and depepnding on families and friends overseas for their survival?

But I always realized that it is not as easy as I thought.

After all, not everyone is born to be a carpenter, a mechanic, a masonary, a garbage collector, etc...

Zarien, understand is not developed enough to accept a man cooking fixing meals for himself and for his family.

These men still get put down, made fun of, mocked for doing something like that, you know it and I know it. Imagine a young guy who just finished college in Haiti and end up working as mechanic, a carpenter, a masonary, etc...this person is automatically excludes himself from the haitian society.

The saying "Il n'y a pas the sot metiers, il y a que the sorte genres" is not yet true in Haitian society.

Tiba, August 3 2008, 8:55 AM

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