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[DepiseHaiti]

So many haitians are striving to get the title "Haiti: Perles des Antilles" back. I always wonder why. Let's consider the truth for a minute. Despite its productive aspect, Haiti had many weaknesses at the time that it was called "Perles des Antilles." I doubt that we can afford to repeat the errors that those who lived in the past had committed. We will not forget the positive things that they have done. However, its time for us to look at the present and think about the future. We need to find the possibilities that we have now and use them to make of Haiti---a place of peace, of justice, of joy and entertainment. It breaks my heart when I read how devasted some diasporas are because they don't feel safe to go back home. It shouldn't be this way, should it? We have a long way to go my fellow brothers and siters, but we can make it. In a bad situation, it is always hard to find the small door that leads to the solution. If we---look together, we will find it. Hold my hands, and I will hold yours. It is not necessary for you to know who my parents are. The truth is that we are all Haitians. Obtaining an american, Canadian, or whatever citizenship(I'm not saying this is wrong, by the way. Even though I am not citizen of another country) will never erase the bond that unites us. Let's put the past in the "used for reference only" area, and let us move on with the present. Among many other things, the security issue needs to be resolved. We need to better our educational system. We need honesty from the government, and we need to put tourism back in place based on the improvement on the issues mentioned above . It is easier said than done, of course. I believe that Haitians are smart. I believe that we can accomplish great things. We just need to stick together.

With my deepest love,

Depisehaiti

[Al Saqr]

Vous avez de l'espoir, quoi. Lespwa ne serait pas votre solution ?

[TiCam]

Al, kite neg la pran chans li ak lespwa non. L'espoir (Lespwa) fait vivre!

[Ambrosia]

Nou gen 203 ans ak lespwa gade kote'l menen nou, an gade fint yo.

[karizmua]

DespiseHaiti,

Keep hope alive!

Registered: January 2006, Post: 4!

come on man, where have you been?

[DepiseHaiti]

Thank you for taking the time to post a reply to my thread. Some of you are looking at the big mess in which Haiti is dwelling right now. What you fail to consider is that everybody is able to do good or bad. Don't forget that in a group of a thousand people, there are one thousand individuals with a choice to make. Some people will choose to do good, and others will do the opposite. If all of us say that we can't change anything, then we can't. In the other hand, if we believe that our contribution matters, we may suprise ourselves with what we can accomplish. Just as it takes one strong person to commit a crime, one person can save a life or even many lives. In spite of the hope that I have, I am working. It is my goal to help as many haitian children as possible. Teaching the children of the minority how to read and write will change their lives tremendously. That's why I decided to become a teacher. I am majoring in education in the US, and, after graduationthat, I will return to Haiti to help. That's a tough decision, isn't it? Why would I leave the US, the land of opportunities, to go back home? We can do great things when we put selfishness aside. I am rurrently working on a library project. I become even more determined to provide the children that are living in the countryside (where I grew up) with the library because books were not really available to me when I was growing up. I don't ask people for money; I only collect books. One of my friends will shape them to Haiti for me in a container. I start with books that are written in English because that's what I can find here, but I will certainly include books that are written in French. I do not count on anybody to help me, but I will offer whatever I have. You may think that people always talk like that. Well, it is time for you to be positive. I have no intention to make you think that I am good. I am doing my part; do yours.

Thanks,

Depisehaiti

[Al Saqr]

I totally agree with you. I hope you'll be able to go back in Haiti safely.

[gnmusic]

Originally Posted by DepiseHaiti

If all of us say that we can't change anything, then we can't. In the other hand, if we believe that our contribution matters, we may suprise ourselves with what we can accomplish.

I can relate with your line of thought -and quite happily so. I am happy because I have hope in the midst of so many thoughts that anything, anything at all one could do for Haiti would be too little, too late. Haitians' pessimism is the mother of all of Haiti's evil (at least in our most recent history). I cannot help but to think that widespread disinterest, lack of faith and gross omissions (failures to act when and where a situation calls for it) have given birth to the horrors we have come to see in recent haitian history - plagues worse than we could have imagined even a few years ago.

If the ones before us, the generations before us have left us a legacy that we would not want to leave to the ones after us, just staring at it will not change any of it.

I visualize our common counsciousness, us, the ones who are called upon to be leaders of Haiti, as a collosal and rusty production plant, an enormous mass of feray, that has been closed down for decades, with raje men wotè all around. The best part is that it is not doomed. It needs some serious landscaping and a lot of lubricant to get things moving in that plant once again. This is the "picture" I see. I can only begin to fathom what so many dormant, distant, kite mele m', démissionnaire minds, when redeemed, could accomplish for that nation.

I can understand what happened, although philosophizing on it won't get much done, but I can understand that it may be basic human instinct to choose to flee from the enormity of a given burden, look at it, make comments, but choose to stay away. That's why leaders are needed, to break such cycle of retreat, or marronage of the minds.

I am hopeful. But hope is meaningless when you don't have a plan. L'espoir fait vivre, indeed, but only when you are living for something -- anything you may choose that to be.

A leader has a plan and the willingness to take charge of something. A leader seeks and finds ways to carry out his plan and bring solutions. It's not about political jobs, title, media attention or name recognition.

Let's all go for that new perspective. Then let's follow up and get some hands dirty nan la pat!