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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.