Haiti Documentary Part 1

This is Part 1 of a 27 min documentary I produced about a guy I know who's moving to Port au Prince, Haiti in August ('07) to build an agricultural boarding school for street kids.

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Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• haiti
• aide
• humanitarian
• missionary
• street
• kids
• children
• documentary
• world
• hunger

[jklseattle]

@esterripa @symetricbody You're both right. It's part adaptation and part fallout from a failed international aid model. This is one reason the person in the video (not me...i'm just the producer) is attempting to start a vocational school there to A) pull the kids away from the violence and brutality of the streets and B) learn how to sustain themselves w/o foreign assistance.

[maskedavenger777]

No one in the liberal media seems to be interested in pointing out the incredible mineral wealth of Haiti. From what I have read from the Ezili Danto website, Haiti could be become an island Saudi Arabia of the Caribbean. Imagine wealthy Haitians coming to London for shopping junkets. The streets would be paved and the nation would have the best sanitation in the region. The government could provide free education to all up through college. Why the big silence?

[jklseattle]

@maskedavenger777 Corrupt local (which is the same as "national", Haiti beings so small) govt.

[Thunderthor1988]

wasn't MLK a communist?

[jklseattle]

"communist" and "socialist" are two very different things. He may have had socialist leanings, but that is only a speck of what it means to be Communist. Heck if I really care, though, to be honest. I was just the producer of this video...the director wanted this audio, so it's here.

[muladar10]

:(  why?

[jklseattle]

what do you mean, "why?"

[symetricbody]

@esterripa Talk about ignorance, "haitians are so selfish and they think that they deserve every thing" you just generalized a whole group of people. If you were a economist haha, you would actually understand the impact a debt buried country would have on its citizens. Bottom line is debt is root of the problems.

[symetricbody]

@esterripa Oh really you are a economist, seriously what are your credentials?

[esterripa]

@symetricbody Basic lessons ? hahaha!! What a coincidence im economist. To make that statement the only thing that you show me is your ignorance , the point in here is that the only people that can help Haiti is haitians , but the problems is that , haitians are so selfish and they think that they deserve every thing , They want to receive but never give , without mention that they are the most lazy people i ever seen!!

[symetricbody]

@esterripa We are all human beings we are all the same, and the enviroment has a great impact on how we behave and our outlook in life. If you live in a violent enviroment you will either adapt with a violent behavior or get killed.

[symetricbody]

@esterripa Maybe you need a basic lesson in economy, the Hatian government along with other third world countries are so far in debt the aid that anyone sends will never be enough to pay off. Eventually the government will have to sell off infrastructure and resouces to pay off debt. Along with corruption and people trying to make money off crisis how do you think people will behave? Did you know the prisons in Hati are in the stock market?

[esterripa]

@symetricbody so who do you planning to blame, then? god?

[symetricbody]

@esterripa So you blame the people of Hati? haha.

[alan10014]

@oscarHardCore jajaja no chinges a lo mejor aqui en Tijuana esta jodidon pero no es para tanto.