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30155: Re: 30142: Leiderman (inquiry) re 30133: remittances; "apres moi, le divulge..." (fwd)





From: patlucien@yahoo.com

Haitians are better off NOT counting on international donations and NOT rely on those funds year after year to build the country.

Most of the donor's funds go to major International NGOs anyways because they impose some many requirements on the projects that most local NGOs or companies can not even think about applying for the projects. although often time, the Haitian NGO are subcontracted to do the real work.

A better approach is for Haitians to start having an entrepreneurial spirit and come up with sound businesses to implement in Haiti and invite the diaspora to invest. Haiti has tree major resources, Land, people and culture. We are better off taking advantage of what we have, build an investment fund, and invest in some businesses that make sense. Anything from a small Inn, resort, hotels, to a plantation of fruit/vegetable to some major project like a Bio-diesel plant should be the kind of things to think of. Yes, there are risks, but for one thing, the money invested will be used in Haiti and someone will at least find employment.

How is this country to develop when the government can not collect taxes because everything is Non-Profit.

Seems to me that a good portion of those donor funds are used for "conferences, Table Ronde, Summits, feasibility study, researches, reports, visits", not much on implementation. There is always a new report on Haiti. All the money spent on report could have been used to creates new small enterprises. Taxes collected from those enterprises can then be use for reports.

Again, if the diaspora could find some good sound small businesses and invest 10% of that remittance into those businesses, we'll be better off. To say we need more entrepreneurs, business people, ....

Jean-Patrick Lucien
Dream big. Do good. Live well.