“Haiti Children”, an unforgettable project

Beatrice Garra – Vatican City

Severe poverty, criminal gang violence, and natural disasters: this Haiti, but not only. The country, which is often separated from the main headlines of great international newspapers, has a great history of liberating slavery since the early nineteenth century. A story that can still be revived, starting from the younger redemption, often forced to join the gangs as the only possibility to survive.

They are “the sons of Haiti”, that newspaper It is happening He decided to have a multimedia project, presented in Rome yesterday, Tuesday, May 13, at the headquarters of the Pap for Latin America.

A story that can be taught

“Haiti – an explanation of the Vatican media, Marco Gerardo, director of the Italian epileptic conference – is a little symbol, the slogan of the first region republic that declared independence, the second republic that declared independence in history. He has a story of freedom.

The multimedia project consists of a DocufilmWhich will be transferred to many festivals, which is a series of reports, published every fifteen days until the end of the year, and a set of funds from the AVvenre Foundation for the Orphans House The angels house. Photography, which will become a wandering, was also planned by Haiti children.

Decisive year

Lucia Kabuzi, a correspondent told It is happening And responsible for the project, regarding Peru. In fact, 200 years have passed since April 17, 1825, when France forced the old slaves, who resisted the armies of Napoleon, to compensate him with 150 million francs. Otherwise, the island had been invaded again. He was the debts that took Haiti years to pay and undermine his development from the beginning, with consequences still suffering from more than 11 million people.

“Our campaign – explains Kabuzi – wants to help us understand that we are all children in Haiti because the island gave this world to go to freedom, and this strength, this ability to withstand resistance and resistance, and this makes us understand the consequences that the past enjoy at the present time.”

Debt problem

Professor Emiles Koda, Secretary of the Pontifical Committee of Latin America, interfered in the presentation, which was moderated by the journalist Angela Napolitano. “This year in the jubilee, you cannot talk about freedom when people are debtor,” Kuda said. Public debt is a problem that Haiti shares with other Latin American countries, which must be improved, even if it is only because of the linguistic differences, where French is spoken on the island, while the Spanish language is spoken in other states.

Father Julio Albaniz, director of the missionary cooperation office between churches and the Social Communications Office in the Diocese of Rome – says that the confrontation with debt financing and the impossibility of its recovery – it is necessary to direct:

“As a church, we cannot stay with cross weapons: that the jubilee is the time of conversion, for the sake of the pillar, which is to confirm the common good of the peoples.”

The United Nations Ambassador, as this is still a real laboratory for resistance, said that Stella Jean, Haiti Kapalian, Haiti Kapalian and fashion designer Kabali, which is still a real resistance laboratory, and Stella Jean, the Haiti-Kabali fashion designer, is the United Nations Ambassador.

Haiti’s future was also interrogated by Alessandro Galasi, Director Docufilm It is expected in the first show, which filmed the case of young people associated with criminal gangs and some citizens, who promote architectural walls and barriers to “protect their safety”. The trend that appears to attract a broad future to avoid humanity.

Doctors ’commitment without limits

Shera Monttelu, a specialist in infectious diseases and coordinated for the medical unit of doctors who have no limits, talked about the gradual deterioration in the living conditions and security in Haiti, forcing these doctors to close two shock centers in Turgu and Carrifour a little more than one month ago. The painful decision came after a recent incident in February, “as one of our cars with our slogan – Monttelu to our microphones – was desired. Therefore, we were not only victims of the clashes, but this time we were the goal.”

There is still a shock center managed by NGOs, in the Tabar neighborhood of Portorin Princenes, but it can no longer meet the increasing needs, among other things because another hospital has also been closed in Miraboli. MSF, which has been in the country since 1991, is still working in the south of the country with a project of care for the mother and balls.

“We hope to reopen our origin as possible – Monttelu said – first because it means that the situation has improved, and the second because we can finally reach more people in need.”

The presence of AVSI

“Nothing justifies the research elsewhere before a major crisis like Haiti,” said Viamita Kapleini, AVSI head, said. The crisis “cannot and should not be forgotten. “The problems facing the country,” Kapini told the Vatican media “, there is a lot: there is no doubt poverty, lack of a means of population, food insecurity, and malnutrition for children.”

Other critical issues are “teaching children and protecting the weak population. Women and children are very dangerous violence victims. Gender violence against women is a truly exciting problem. AVSI interventions are currently very wide:

The presence of the organization – Cappellini – explained very strong in the capital, which is the most affected point of this dynamics of violence, as in the oceanic departments, which are rural areas.

There we work through food security, nutrition and agricultural development, while in the capital there is more support, protection and humanitarian assistance to victims of violence, without forgetting educational interventions “very important at the present time.”