Global and Local Economic Forces Effects on Haitian Women This essay aims to analyze the living and working conditions of women in Haiti, with an emphasis on their treatment in sweatshops. I grew up in Haiti and witnessed first-hand how women are treated at home, at work and in society in general. To understand the topic of gender in Haiti, women’s lives must be analyzed from multiple aspects such as health, violence, political and economic status, gender roles and their culture.…
Haiti is listed as the twentieth poorest countries in the Western Hemisphere, With 80% of the population living under the poverty line and 54% existing in absolute poverty. According to the International Red Cross, “seven out of ten Haitians live on less than…
To some people the years 1994,1998,2008 and 2010 are just years. But to the people of Haiti, these years are the years that changed their lives drastically. Through the loss of loved ones, homes and so much more. The Haitian people display courage and resilience because they have still found ways to come back despite the odds.…
I will be working in Port Au Prince, Haiti from June 4-11th as part of a mission team from Global Partners of Peace and Development (GPPD). While in Haiti, I will be serving on the special needs and orphan division of the GPPD team. I will be working in various orphanages, and churches feeding, teaching, and playing with the children there. Haitian orphanages are filled with children who have mental, physical, or developmental disabilities. In their culture, these children are often labeled as Cocobai, Haitian Creole for “worthless”.…
With terrifying regularity, he sent his aides from palace to prison, and from there often to either foreign exile or execution.’ This quote illustrates how François Duvalier was able to declare himself Haiti’s leader for his entire lifetime and treat the people he was in power of like dirt by sentencing them to exile or execution without good rule. Moreover, a document written by Raymond Joseph sent to the US reads “From the very beginning NGOs followed their own agendas and set their own priorities, largely excluding the Haitian government and civil society… just 1 percent of all donor funds available for emergency assistance was channeled to the government…’ showing how foreign NGOs haven’t always been helpful, at the very least honest with Haiti about how the money is being spent or what it’s being spent…
Because I was taught to be aware of those less fortunate, I am aware that what this organization is doing is the right thing. My morals and values are very similar to what Oxfam is doing overall. I feel that they are creating the right image and they are truly helping society with the projects they are successfully completing. Some people may not see it as helping people because they could have grown up differently and thought to keep what they have; although this may not be a wrong thought, I was always taught to share what I have with others and with those who are less fortunate. This organization is one that shares the same values as me, which allows me to fully support them.…
I am from Haiti this is the story of my life and how people think I am so “Rich and everything that I have are “handed” to me. When I was in Haiti I was living in the smallest house you could possibly imagine. Life was hard I had to work for everything and I mean work hard some days are better than others. Sometime it could be a great day where my mom come home and she is able to cook us something to eat, but some days when she come home from being gone all day she come home with nothing.…
Haiti faces a number of social and environmental factors that contribute to disease, while facing barriers to treatment, despite efforts to alleviate health issues. Basic latrine is Haiti is socially regarded as odd, although improper sanitation remains a large problem in many areas of the country (Kennedy, 2013). Warm air and the flowing of short rivers are two environmental factors that welcome the breeding of cholera bacteria in Haiti (Jutla, Whitcombe, Hasan, Haley, Akanda, Huq, Colwell, 2014). Because Haiti is the poorest Western hemisphere country, numerous economic barriers arise for citizens trying to achieve healthcare (Urrutia, Merisier, Small, Urrutia, Tinfo, & Walmer, 2012). Fortunately, there is hope for Haitians in addressing health issues.…
The Haitian Revolution destroyed Haiti’s international relations causing an economic crisis and socioeconomic inequality, thus counteracting the liberties gained by the revolution. 1. As a newly freed nation of former slaves, the Western world felt threatened by Haiti’s new transformation inducing an international withdraw from commercial relations with nation. 2. With an international boycott of Haitian goods, Haiti financially struggled after losing their main source of revenue.…
Haiti is a country on the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea. Haiti makes up roughly the western 1/3 of the island. Their roots are very different. Haiti is primarily populated by African-Caribbean people with a history of French colonialism. Haiti is about the size of the U.S. state of Maryland, just over 10,000 square miles.…
According to UNICEF, 22,000 children die from poverty each day: 270 million have no access to health care, and 121 million children are out of education worldwide. Poverty remains one of the most severe harms against humanity in society today. Today, the question is not why one of two children in the world remains in poverty while a plethora of people live luxurious lifestyles, as we know the reasons are lack of education, lack of health care, and lack of income equality, but rather how this detrimental problem can be mitigated. Poverty will never truly be eliminated.…
I examine data collected from several international organizations, I scrutinize three indicators that best represent basic services ( i.e. Human Development Index, access to health and education). To analyze if foreign aid is helping Haiti’s economic growth and development I monitor changes in Human Development Index, trends in the numbers of those who have access to health and education. I also focus on the impact of food aid, humanitarian aid. I focus on these indicators for three reasons: First, these indicators are used throughout the international community because they provide quantitative statistics on Haiti’s population. Second, they are comprehensive (these indicators detail, age, gender, location of the populace), they encompass some…
Disaster capitalism, as coined by Naomi Klein in her book The Shock Doctrine, is the exploitation of a community suffering from a state of shock as a result of a natural, political, or biological disaster in order to make a monetary profit. The collective people sharing in this catastrophe are in a state of shock rendering them into a position of heightened vulnerability. This heightened vulnerability opened the door for major worldwide corporations to come in under the guise of providing aid and support and leave without delivering on their promise millions of dollars richer at the expense of the poor and displaced. The devastating 7.0 magnitude earthquake of 2010 in Haiti is an excellent example of disaster capitalism at its finest.…
For most developing countries there is a common social stigma that governments are corrupt and misusing the money, because of this governments like Haiti do not have adequate funding to meet the people’s needs. The Haitian earthquake caused many deaths, but the poor infrastructure caused even more people to die. The Haitian government needs to create stable housing for all the displaced people, so that what happened in earthquake would not reoccur. One of the biggest issues after the earthquake was the lack of space for all the injured people and patients would die outside the hospital because there was not enough space.…
Haiti’s vulnerability to natural disasters could also be viewed as an indirect caused to conflict, when looking at the causes of poverty and unemployment natural disasters are a culpable component. In 2004 Haiti was devastated by floods in both May and September, the 2005 Hurricane Dennis ruined coastal towns, a tropical storm in 2008 killed 800 people and 2010 saw their largest earthquake on record as well as an outbreak of cholera in the aftermath . The policy responses to outbreaks of unrest in Haiti have been sporadically spaced starting in July 1994 when the United Nations Security Council released the 940 resolution allowing military intervention. In September a multi national force led by the US entered Haiti aiming to restore democracy…