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Tiba, your observation about religious zealots and their supposed aid to Haiti is very accurate.

In 1997, I went on a research expedition of these orphanages.

What I found was shocking.

I documented it all on film. Let me first explain that the original plans for my trip was to research cultural expressions in Haitian traditional speech.

I had gotten a grant to do that research.

Well, on the plane to Haiti, I met a group of missionaries.

I started talking with them about my work (although I am very categorical and cutting in my approach to issues, I am also a very friendly and people like to talk to me).

Anyway, these missionaries and I talked all the way to Haiti, and I found out that they were planning to visit different orphanages.

By the time we landed, I had already decided that I would have a different mission in Haiti (pun intended).

I was going to find out more about the work that these missionaries were doing.

As always when I travel for research in Haiti, I had my camcorder with me. I left the airport with the missionaries and instead of going to my friends place, I went with them to their hospice.

For several weeks after our arrival, we visited several orphanages in different areas.

What I filmed with my hidden camcorder was: 1) how truly ignorant most of the people who work as missionaries tend to be. 2) How (like Tiba said) they arrogantly think that after one or five trips to Haiti, they know more about the country than native Haitians.

3) How their ignorance and arrogance results in most of what they do being more harmful to the Haitian people than any dictator, disease, or famine.

I watched how these missionaries fed Haitian children tons and tons of candy a day in order to get these children to worship them. I watched how crooked Haitians worked with these missionaries to get tons of money from unsuspecting do-gooders in the state, and than use most of that money on themselves while the children had very little to eat and were sleeping in atrocious conditions.

I watch the psychological manipulation of those children as they were fed candy while being taught that being Haitian meant that they were descendant of evil does who were cursed because they believed in an African tradition rather than the Western one that the missionaries were selling.

I watched how the people who ran the orphanage mistreated the children as soon as the missionaries left. It was easy for anyone to find out that the children in these orphanages were in fact seriously neglected and often abused.

The missionaries act as if they don't know what happens as soon as they leave the premises.

But the same way I was able to know within less than a few days of looking into it, they same way they also know or could know what's going on. Those who don't know what is happening in ALL these orphanages just don't want to know. The bottom line is that missionaries are not about making life really better for anyone, because if the poor were better-off, than these missionaries will no longer get the funds they need to survive.

I don't know Brother Vistal, but I do know that the vast majority of orphanages in Haiti are true nightmares and that most missionaries are ignorant twisted individuals, who historically do more harm than good. Are there a exceptions to this rule?

Probably, but since my work with Mother Theresa, I did not meet one; and believe me, I met or watched a lot of them.

Linda, March 18 2009, 11:32 PM

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Tiba, You are full of chi**ts in your dam mouth every time you talked on this blog. What if the guy was or is a native... read more >
Tete Kale Bobis, 14-Mar-09 2:30 pm
tete kale bois Sorry for bursting your bubbles! I didn't know this issue was so dear to your heart. If you are one of... read more >
Tiba, 14-Mar-09 9:40 pm
Tiba, I'm sorry if you're experience has been such that you could tar all missionary and relief efforts with such a... read more >
Clay Cook, 15-Mar-09 1:46 pm
Clay Cook, Don't feel sorry for me because I have not exerienced these types of injustices in my personal life. I have... read more >
Tiba, 15-Mar-09 3:43 pm
Tiba; Thank you for your reply, and I'm sorry for the pain your country has suffered at the hands of so many. Be... read more >
Clay Cook, 15-Mar-09 4:23 pm
Clay Cook- I am not trying to poke you in the eye, and therefore, please don't take it as a personal attack. I... read more >
Tiba, 15-Mar-09 6:34 pm
Tiba, I think you and I would get along very well, I'd like the chance to buy you a drink and chat! People who think... read more >
Clay Cook, 15-Mar-09 8:13 pm
I have received a bit of news regarding the situation at the orphanage at City of God in Port au Prince, Haiti, and... read more >
Clay Cook, 16-Mar-09 4:32 pm
Tiba, your observation about religious zealots and their supposed aid to Haiti is very accurate. In 1997, I went on a... read more >
Linda, 18-Mar-09 11:32 pm
Linda - This is the kinda reality about these missionaries (who are viewed as saviors) that many of brain washed... read more >
Tiba, 19-Mar-09 7:53 am
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