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9028: Re: 9022: Mr. Nau's points well-taken; link relief with restoration (fwd)
From: Wilson Nau <Lloc17West@netscape.net>
Good hearted donors who are truly concerned and are endeavoring to help
relieving human suffering in Amity, or anywhere for that matter, deserve
our utmost respect and gratitude. There have been many cases of
individual missionaries and aid workers who got seriously injured or
even lost their lives in accidents in Ayiti, while in the process of
helping the needy. Our heart should go to their family and their
religious organization for their ultimate sacrifice. However, sending
in containers of free food, dry or fresh, on a regular basis in Ayiti,
only perpetuates the Band-Aid approach to solving the country's hunger
problem, and reinforce the cycle of dependency on free handouts, which
is exactly where some other countries want Haiti to be.
So the plot is there. It is insidious and clever. It is so invisible
that it is being supported by people who appears to have genuine love
and affection for the country; and they don't even know that they are
supporting it. They are loving Ayiti to death, and it won't be long
before they smother the baby it they don't wake up.
What does Haiti need to solve its hunger problem? On the one hand, it
needs the help of NGO's that are capable, and willing, to coordinate
with local governments, in an all-out assault to isolate and destroy the
root causes of hunger in their communities. It needs a re-birth of a
depoliticize faculty of agronomy along with a staff of expert
agricultural scientists, from the diaspora I might add, who are truly
dedicated and selfless, to pass their modern scientific knowledge to
aspiring Haitian agronomists and agricultural technicians. On the other
hand it needs the persistency of an automatic pilot in order to stay the
course, once begun. Thank you
Wilson Nau