Haiti Visit: September 6-9, 2024
Fr. Michelin said he couldn’t get the money. I would send it directly to his bank account for the students we’re sponsoring, but the bank charged $35 each time, held it for a week, and then only allowed him to withdraw $100, or maybe $150 if he begged for more. He needed thousands of dollars, so that would never work. I decided to go myself and take him the money. . .
Student Perspectives:
"Here where I am, we’re so-so. We struggle with the circumstances of life, with sickness and suffering, under the crisis in the country. Life seems difficult for me. As I am here, I don’t feel I am living. I feel Haiti doesn’t have life for me anymore. I’m worried about my future. I feel that there isn’t a future for me."
- Shessie
"The difficulty there is in my country is that you go to school and cannot find the professor. The people are always stopping school. We don’t get a chance to see the works the professor wanted to make us see and understand."
- Michaely
Adult Perspectives:
Problems:
- We live in a difficult situation. Things are complicated for us here. We don’t know what to do.
- Children can’t go to school. We cannot leave freely. Nothing functions well.
- Insecurity in the capital affects all the rest. It’s getting worse. It seizes the land.
- Basic necessities, life is very expensive. I can’t help my family. Sickness fills us, hunger, misery.
- There are no jobs. We can’t find work. The country doesn’t offer anything good.
Solutions:
- There’s a solution because we have the will. We need to put our heads together to make things better. We long for peace,
- When we have a good government that doesn’t think only of themselves and their families, when they “take consciousness”, when they know they should love their country, their people, then we’ll have the solution.
- We’re asking for the United States to help us against the gangs and bandits.
- We want the country to take responsibility for the people, give security, electricity, infrastructure, create jobs, then we can get relief.
- We need money to do commerce, to do a little business. A person can create a good business and give other people work too.
How you can help
Your gift to St. Joseph Worker Foundation will enable us to help the poor of Haiti in three ways:
- by providing scholarships so needy children can attend school,
- by helping the sick pay their medical expenses,
- and by offering emergency assistance to those in desperate need.
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St. Joseph The Worker is committed to the people of Haiti. You can assist with the personal and educational development of individuals and groups in Haiti. The Foundation also provides care and relief for Haiti's medically ill and impoverished. Please consider a donation using the PayPal link below.