In 2010, despite of a valley of death, you were focusing mainly on your own organization. Today Haiti is again an occupied country; you focus on your organization.
Haitian brothers and Haitian sisters, Haiti is where it is today because whatever you did on behalf of Haiti was not good enough, it is time to re-access.
Einstein stated: “Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” Albert Einstein, (attributed) US (German-born) physicist (1879 – 1955)
In 2010, whoever made that call to come together was the right call. However, there was no one among you who has any knowledge in community organizing and this was why you failed. Today, you receive the same call with another twist.
Prior bringing you all together, you will receive training on team building, on the Five dysfunctions of a team and building trust.
As of today, there is no trust among you; you cannot do anything without a minimum trust.
We have to build trust.
How many of you know what each other is doing? How he/she earns his/her living?
In 2010, unemployed people collected money on behalf of Haiti that never reached the country. In this list, most of you share the same characteristic of the Obama Base that propelled him to the White House. Candidate Obama broke all fund raising record and why? Everyone in this list can contribute 15 to 25 bucks in each election cycle while the big 1 million donor can do it only once.
The average Haitian in the Diaspora and Haiti will finance the reconstruction of Haiti and not the assistance from outsider.
Keep this in mind: Qui finance, dirige.
Can you tap on existing assistance to communities from various states and world organizations? Of course, but after you settle down and running smoothly with local support.
Contrary to the popular belief, Haitian people support good Haitian stuff. If you have not received their support, they have some doubts on you: …
First, people need to know about your personal story: How you get where you are today and why you choose your profession or your line of work.
We must restore trust.
The Haitian Diaspora and the Patriots who are living inside Haiti must work together to free Haiti from servitude and to regain our independence one more time.
We must free Haiti and then we must rebuild our land.
Vive Haiti, Vive la Liberté and long live Toussaint Louverture !!!
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Surround yourself with positive people.
Regardless of what you may be going through right now,
always plan for a better tomorrow.
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Joseph AlfredBoston, Massachusetts
Email: joe_alfred@yahoo.com