Currents Summer 2024 (1) - Flipbook - Page 41
So I left, and I was sitting on the plane and I didn9t know what was wrong exactly, but I
definitely knew that something wasn9t right.
And in that moment I decided to go down that rabbit hole. I was ready and willing to open up
all the cans of worms that Haiti had to offer and really look at: How we do things like
humanitarian intervention? - How we look at faith-based organizations that operate and
work here on the ground? - How has there been this kind of control over the discourse of
what is wrong with Haiti, and what needs to be the solution here? As well as this concept of
empowerment - what does it mean to empower people, what does it mean to empower a
nation that already has its own agency but is consistently told it is poor, weak, and powerless.
Haitians are not these stupid thoughtless beings that don't have hopes and dreams and
goals, yet the more time I spent here the more I began to understand that it didn't necessarily
matter what Haitians wanted in these types of discussions in this
