Dear Folks,
I take the time to drop those few lines which I think will benefit
you in a great deal in deciding about your coming trips to Haiti.
So many of us are waiting for the election to take place, which is
going to be the solution of the political unrest, and the time where
Haiti will be well- suited to handle businesses and other
activities. Election has been postponed for more than three times
now, which I think is a lack of ability and knowledge of the Interim
Government in leadership of this impoverished Nation. The big
dilemma is not only Haiti loses her connections and resources on the
national base but also on the international base. Many foreign
business firms wish that they would open their business, but the
election is thought to be the key of solution to their safety, which
I think is not obvious.
Haiti's political crisis would not stop unless the Haitian Government
respects their promise to the Chimers, the gangs and the illiterates
of this country. Their promise was to create thousands of jobs along
with institutions that will dedicate to instruct the youth that are
in illiteracy. The government has not worked on any of those promises
to help those outside, in the streets, to survive and have a normal
life. I am sure that so many people that are now involved in random
acts and creating all those k-ass are those that are offered money
and have no alternate sources of income, that is just an opinion, but
remember that I live long enough there to be that persuasive.
If you all are waiting for the election, and mean that Haiti's
political climate will be better off for safety concerns, I am
strongly denied you all are in error. The reason for that, so many
people are now dieing with hypertension, and their health condition
becomes ten times aggravated than before. I am sending this letter
not to be opinionated but instead to persuade you in thinking.
I was going over the pictures taken in mobile clinics along those
with NCP. The face of those elders along with kids and young adults
that Mission Groups used to treat tells me that they badly need your
help than ever. I assume there are so many of them that are already
dead due to hypertension, malaria, TB, and other serious related
diseases. Your mobile clinics usually take place in the villages
around Leogane along in the most rural areas that have no medical
agencies to help. We all feel that the work benefits the peasants,
the literates along the elites in a great deal. Even government
agencies used to come and take a chance of those free drugs/
consultations in your clinics. Your clinics do not take places around
P-AU-P neither in the palace. None of you have ever had a clinic in
Cite Soleil before. I am requesting that you plan another angle to
schedule your trips. Going through the Jacmel road to get to Leogane
will be the best way to start saving life. Remember that you are
accompanied with five brave translators, Jean Mary Cheridor, Mario
Guerrier, Little Mario, Evans Cheridor, and Peter Silmilhomme, who do
not take any pressure from anyone. Do not assume of any risk while a
clinic is taking in the villages.
I am requesting that you stop planning as the election goes. It is
not a prepaid that says," Pay a you Go".
In this last paragraph, I am requesting that you all take just a few
seconds to think of mobile clinics as well with your work you have
done in a mobile clinic, to see how important you are to those
patients along those in the Hospitals.
Think of how many times patients are fighting, crying, and suffering
in mobile clinic, which indicates a having a mobile clinic is more
than money that you can give them. After thinking, I want you to log
on HCE-NEWS and go to the links and starting viewing mobile clinics
and see how important that you are to them, and how many lives you
have saved. I am sure you will remember faces of those who incurred
serious health conditions. If you do, be prepared to go start
planning for your trips.
Let `s keep doing God's works as Tom Anderson says, and we will see
how secure He will keep us in doing so.
May God bless your future trips in Haiti!
Be Blessed,
Jean Gary Paraison
Former- Mobile Clinic Coordinator/Head Translator @ Ste. Croix
Hospital