Ralph, I think you are preaching to the choir, believe me. You...

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Ralph,

I think you are preaching to the choir, believe me. You spent a big chunck of your time using every anology in the book just to prove me the importance of EDUCATION when we could have talked about another important issue.

Ralph, believe me when I say even the Cave Man knows the importance of education.

It would be naive and completely detached from reality for anyone to believe that those poor Haitians don't know the importance of EDUCATION.

They would do anything and everything to send their children to school to get an EDUCATION.

Those who are governing/ruling the country know so much about the importance of EDUCATION they deprive the masses from getting it as their best strategy to secure their government positions/posts because they know very well an educated Haiti will easily replace them from power.

The rational conversation I was trying to have with you was about the ways/strategies used to make your project a successful one. If you don't run your program within those principles you COULD then find yourself facing a brick wall or find yourself on a dead end street that could only bring you frustration, aggrevation, and discouragement, and then the end of it all.

But again, everyone have their luck, their own temperament, patience, and their own experiences in life to overcome difficulties and barriers.

As a general term, I have noticed there is a lot of people who think they can go to Haiti like "Louis-Jean Beauje" and take over the country and change everything, and it is not as easy as many people led to believe.

Some projects/insfrastructures/programs depend solely on the government to do. For example, there are many educated Haitians who think they can go to Haiti and change the entire education system, when it comes to revamping the school system is a government's job to do. However, we, as civilians ca put pressure on the government to change the entire school system if we think it's not working and it's broken.

Anyone who go to Haiti to build and run the best ever school must do so within the nation school system accademic curriculum.

You cannot create you own or adopt one from another country.

You can, however, go the extra miles to recruit the best teachers and have a more vigourous accademic learning, but all has to be within the nation's school system.

Once the government would undertake these changes to have a much better modern education, we, as citizens, can contribute our knowledge, experiences, and expertise to make it work.

What I am trying to say is, we, Haitians, living abroad who want to contribute to change our country MUST NOT think we could just pop up in Haiti, bypass the government, and try to change the system, the culture, the political landscape, the economy, etc...it is an illusion, a fantasy and plain naivity to anyone to believe that.

To have any fundamental change in Haiti or in any other country, the government in place has to set the tone and present a blue point strategy to do accomplish it then have the citizens/the people to join in and follow along.

The humanitarian project that I started in my hometown back in 1995, I was obliged to go through the process to get a permit from the Health Department in order to opperate the clinic.

And we had to go through great deal of aggrevation to take over the state hospital as well, and everything had to be within the country's system, rules and regulations.

But as I said again, we, Haitians, don't have to accept things and life like they are. We can and must pressure the government through protests, lobbying, using all other types of tactics to get the government change the state of the country to a collective result that will benefit the entire country and not just one little part of the country.

Tba, December 27 2008, 10:20 AM

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