About Haiti

Haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphere and among the poorest in the world. Per capita annual income is $350, and 75 percent of the people live below the poverty level set by the World Bank. More than half the population is unemployed; most scratch out a subsistence living in agriculture.  The literacy level is under the world average and also below 50%.Coffee is the main export crop. Factory workers earn less than $3 a day on average. One percent of the population controls approx. 40 percent of the country's wealth. Currency is the Haitian Gourde with an exchange rate of approximately U.S. $1 to G37.5.

 

In my few times of going to Haiti my experience made me so much more grateful for the things that i have and take for granted.  The simple luxury of running water, and constant light, indoor toilets lacking in most areas.  Haiti has a unique school system where the overwhelming majority of school children are enrolled in private schools which make it difficult for most parents to send their children to school.  As individuals and an organization, we at C.W. Ministries, Inc. dedicate our lives and resources in working to help our fellow Haitians by providing an education to the children of the country.  

A family in Village of Peace, a seaside slum of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, sit on rocks and cinder blocks in the muddy alley by their shacks since the two rooms they inhabit were totally flooded by recent rains on Tuesday, April 22, 2003.

 

 

About Santo Domingo

Nan Batey is a place in the Dominican Republic where they send people from Haiti to work in the sugar cane fields. The living situation are so bad that the workers are so ashamed to go back home. Their children are naked because they can’t afford to buy clothes and they are not even paid enough income for food.  The situation over there is beyond critical.

On the streets of Santo Domingo, poverty is glaringly on display. Beggars and peddlers, from the age of four to the age of 70, approach car windows at stoplights, holding out their hands or offering peanut brittle for sale. Two young boys bicker over five pesos, approaching the car of a family to ask for more money. The father, who's driving, asks them what the problem is.  They explain that they are bickering over who gets the last peso after they each get two out of five.

In 1998, the vast majority of Dominicans living below the official poverty line lacked indoor sanitation or indoor running water. Over half did not have running water at all, and more than a fifth lacked electricity. The vast majority had not completed primary school. Perhaps the most vulnerable people in that country are either Haitian or Dominican-born with Haitian parents, and therefore undocumented. With the government now privatizing the state-run sugar company; poor people in the sugar-producing areas, many of whom are Haitian, are "poorer than ever."

Everything and anything is sold on the streets: sunglasses, candy, puppets, kites, cell phone cards and covers. Some peddlers carry dozens of window wipers, while beggars put their various maladies on display: one man, pushed in a wheelchair, has a bag protruding from his stomach; another has no fingers, and holds a styrofoam cup to collect change in between his torso and his arm. Fruteros sell whole or sliced fruit in tricycle-carts, while others mix shaved ice and sugary liquids to make yunyuns. Skim Ice, a Dominican company that sells frozen fruit-flavoured snacks, employs dozens of people throughout the city to traverse traffic and sell Skim Ice at 10 pesos a pop through quick window exchanges.Santo Domingo, whose population is two million and growing, is bursting at the seams. Its roadways are clogged with buses, private cars, bicycles and rundown taxis, where passengers sit cheek-by-jowl with strangers. Add the occasional horse cart for a snarling, slow-moving mess.tian’s treatment and working conditions are very harsh but they keep on going to work voluntarily simply because they need to feed their families. They believe it is better than being in Haiti where majority of the people are uneducated and where are constant violence among Haitians. Each year many Haitians go to the Dominican Republic in search for jobs in the sugar cane fields.

This year we are asking for your donations so can help the children and their family in the Nan Batey region.  Please donate no matter how small and as you do remember how huge of an impact you can have on the lives of these children with your support of any amount.

Last Year we helped dozens of children attend school in various part of Haiti including but not limited to Saint Louis Du Nord and Port de Paix. We have raised over $2,000, and we have helped over 31 children in Port au Prince alone. In addition, we have expanded by sponsoring a school in Saint Louis Du Nord. You can make a permanent impact on the lives of these children whose lives are likely to change because of your generous support of $20 a month or $200 a year. 

 

 

 

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