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And Reitman touches on this issue in quoting both Dr. But she does not follow up or investigate the point further. So the overwhelming tendency for those contributing is to identify pet projects to which their emotional embrace is charged by familiarity, rather than real-time needs. And it is a vicious cycle, upon which many in the development set prey. Two notable donor exceptions in Haiti have been Voila and Digicel, both socially responsible companies, but also with the advantage of having in-country presences.
Had Reitman focused more on the bureaucracy and systemic dysfunction, and less on sensationalized complaint, a productive balance may have been struck between journalism and advocacy. Education is a priority for all. Educating donors is a worthy place to begin a new collaboration between NGOs. We were not eligible for their grant because we had not been an NGO for three years.
These types of intractable restrictions have created enormous limitations on many good programs. But there are newly positive signs.
I invite this to be scrutinized by media and donors alike. I have great faith in our team, and expect success. For those of us who have been steadily involved on the ground since January , each day feels like an eternity. And to be sure, the challenges ahead are enormous. But no one being honest can say that an extraordinary recovery is not visible. There is still much rubble to be removed, and truly a gargantuan emergency of needs: housing, jobs, education, medical and psychosocial health options yet to be discovered.
Roads and power grids to be established or repaired. The government of Haiti poses a challenging paradigm. Haiti is a country with a constitution that bears reactionary principles, drafted in the devastating wake of the Papa Doc and Baby Doc dictatorships.
The distribution of power left future presidents with almost total deference to parliament and private interest. I grew to have a great respect and affection for the man.
His ability to negotiate the chessboard of Haitian politics was as extraordinary as was his genuine concern for the Haitian people. Instead, this very human and internal man — with little formal power, facing his own suspicions, and those of him, and subject to the whims of money flows not under his control — found himself unable to connect with the Haitian people or re-instill confidence of any measure.
By January , anti-climactic though it was, the return of Baby Doc Duvalier to Haiti would inspire interlopers to circle wagons and attempt to set the stage for a, perhaps, more significant distraction. Note: In Ms. Meanwhile, Haitians themselves would come to choose a new president: Michel Joseph Martelly.
It is an assertion entrenched in the lust for endless struggle and the imposition of American norms with no practical regard for a Haitian context. Despite the exceptional work by many of these peacekeepers and their leadership, there are always those who exploit power. This dismissal is a slap in the face to Haitians who brought Martelly to the presidency, numbering far more than just those who had access to the polls.
Is this their democracy? Or does it belong to its non-Haitian critics? Across Haiti a great thing had happened: The people got the president they wanted. This was in no small way without the exceptional support of Mills, U. So here we are, in September , standing by as the democratically elected president of Haiti and his people suffer the sabotage techniques of members of a parliament that have blocked from them, the installment of two prime ministers in succession a third, Garry Conille, awaits Senate confirmation , thereby stalling the selection and rebuilding of the very ministers and ministries through which all redevelopment projects should rightly be administrated.
They are demagogues, whose ideological aims indulge romantic reparations over tangible repair, and so vilify the families of the bourgeoisie that the human construct of progress has been reduced to a protectionist pissing contest, where fair-minded and inventive people, open to truth and reconciliation, may otherwise be coming to compromise for the greater good — distribution of land, manufacturing, import, export, agriculture and a potential boon for green technologies, from which all could share the benefit of the prize.
Where to begin? I am also known, to those I am known, as a potential employer. In Haiti, what is wanted is a job. Those I encounter each day are part of the population that averaged one or two dollars a day in wages before the earthquake swallowed even that. I ask Ms. When Ms. The same can be said for the emergency relief donations made to the American Red Cross, a monolithic but still very necessary institution. It is unclear whether he had knowledge of the misconduct in this situation, but from the outside Hauwermeiren was a rare beast indeed.
Rare, in that few country directors in Haiti brought as much ethically philosophical leadership skill sets and experience to the table of relief, despite working for a large bureaucratic organization. Suspicion and cynicism toward U. It is time for the Haitian people and their new president to have their voices heard and their needs met.
So much white noise of corruption, both real and imagined, so much suspicion, and conspiracy. One of the best and most passionate minds on the American assistance to Haiti, President Clinton, who is also the United Nations special envoy to Haiti, is, due to all this white noise, an asset to the new Haitian president, and yet, for them to walk together is to walk on eggshells simply to avoid the stigma of American interventionism.
Clinton was right. We constantly strive to grow and learn with them to better support those in need. After nine years, our organization made up of majority Haitians, is now using our singular expertise to respond and support communities facing disaster in the Caribbean and the U. Our staff and board are excited for this next chapter, and as a founder I could not be more proud to see this organization expanding its mission and focus, to reach even more communities with its life-saving programs.
Also expected: new staffers and strategic partnerships with other nonprofits to provide emergency services in low-income neighborhoods and at-risk areas. Penn personally managed the camp for its first nine months. One of the people who sought refuge at the golf course camp was year-old Nicolas Jean-Michel. The house in which he had been living collapsed in the earthquake, killing all the relatives he knew, including his cousin and her daughter.
I never thought I would have to spend four years there. The relocation process for Jean-Michel and the other refugees at that camp was undertaken in cooperation with the Haitian government, the International Organization for Migration, and other relief organizations working in Haiti.
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