Anonymous, Nice reply and I am for almost everything you...

Anonymous,

Nice reply and I am for almost everything you mentioned.

We all know, without a doubt, that Haiti MUST change for better.

To change Haiti Quisqueya or bohio better known as "Haiti Thomas" it needs Leadership.

Haitians are yarning for leadership.

Haiti will never amount to nothing without a strong leadership from the government regardless how much money is donated to Haiti and how many investors in line to invest in Haiti.

Haiti needs the participation of all of her sons and daughters (rich and poor, educated, less educated, and non-educated) in order to get off the life support that she is in, and not only the rich and the educated.

As a nation, we have got to move away from this exclusivity, separatism, alienation, and the isolation of our citizens.

Haiti must belong to ALL Haitians and not to just a few.

I agree with you about NGOs in Haiti and I have addressed this issue on this blog many times before.

I think the all need to get kicked out of the country once and for all because these organizations, in my opinion, create more problems for Haiti than they fix. These people humiliate and dihumanize Haitians and tarnish Haiti's image more than they're really helping.

To be successful, the new government must and need to develop a strong partnership with the Haitian people through honest and sincere communication.

The government needs to give a sense of "belonging" to the Haitian people to get their participation.

It's a matter of psychology.

As painfull as it is for them, many Haitians turn their backs on Haiti because they don't feel belong.

A little personal story, in 1995 I took a group of doctors, nurses, teachers, bankers, and unskilled Americans to my hometown to volunteer in the project.

Well, long story short, on the way back, the Haitian custom seized my passport and stopped me from boarding the plane.

They were looking for someone with the exact same name as me. It was on a Friday.

Well, my American friends left and I remained in Haiti very scared.

I went to court the next day (Saturday) because my good friend happened to know the president of Parquet (the Attorney General).

I asked him how could he ask to stop someone from leaving the country without giving any information (picture, address, etc..) of the person.

He said he had produced all the information on the person to custon.

Out of envy and jealousy, these custom agents seized my passport and blocked me from boarding the plane in front of my American friends purely and simply to humiliate me and teach me a lesson, which was, even though I hold a US passport I must remember that I am still nothing.

Upon my return, I called the Haitian embassy in Washignton, DC, and told what just happened to me in Haiti, and his answer to me was "well we have to do that in order to encourage tourism in Haiti".

I swore then not to ever put foot "nan vye peyi sa-a" again, but I was back 6 months later, and they did the same thing again.

My point is, when you don't feel belong it's not easy to get involved and participate, and that's how Haiti keeps treating her citizens.