As someone who is only a casual observer of the situation in Haiti, I found out that we have new neighbors that are a married couple who spent over five years trying to help in Haiti as volunteers. The man has spent time in various locations such as Afghanistan before Haiti and is no stranger to countries facing severe hardships. In Haiti they saw challenges of no reliable supply of water, insufficient food supply, no basic necessities (they made regular trips to Pricesmart in Santiago for toilet paper and toothpaste) , open sewers in the streets. The woman dared not drive alone because it was so dangerous. She got cholera and almost died and also contracted some parasite that caused her to lose her hair in clumps that was cured by a trip to the US.
After hearing the above and a lot more about Haiti, I asked a blunt question. Is there a chance for Haiti to recover?
There answer was an emphatic no. There is no amount of NGO/Clinton Foundation/Do-gooder donations of time and money that will get Haiti into a situation where it is a viable state. No chance at all. Zero. As in not ever happening. It is a perpetual failed state.
They said the only way things could improve, and this solution is totally untenable, is that if everyone that was currently there were to be replaced with people that have a common goal to unite instead of just survive day by day. They saw first hand how impossible this will be in a country where there are not even passable roads from north to south and east to west.
This explains why there are so many Haitians in the DR in a way that I suspected was true myself. They really have zero hope in Haiti and never will.
After hearing the above and a lot more about Haiti, I asked a blunt question. Is there a chance for Haiti to recover?
There answer was an emphatic no. There is no amount of NGO/Clinton Foundation/Do-gooder donations of time and money that will get Haiti into a situation where it is a viable state. No chance at all. Zero. As in not ever happening. It is a perpetual failed state.
They said the only way things could improve, and this solution is totally untenable, is that if everyone that was currently there were to be replaced with people that have a common goal to unite instead of just survive day by day. They saw first hand how impossible this will be in a country where there are not even passable roads from north to south and east to west.
This explains why there are so many Haitians in the DR in a way that I suspected was true myself. They really have zero hope in Haiti and never will.