Why would you Choose Haiti over another country?

I was recently asked this question, "Why would you Choose Haiti over another country?"
There is no single or simple answer to this for me. Some will understand when I say, "From my first trip, God laid on my heart a calling to help in anyway I can" Others get it when I tell them that it angered me to know that the poorest country in this hemisphere can lie less than 700 miles off the southern most tip of the wealthiest country in the world. Some need to see the smiles of the hungry children as they play to keep the thoughts of their hunger at bay while others need to see their tears as they go to bed hungry. For me it took all of this and more.

 There was the moment I stepped out of the airport into a large group of men and boys all hoping to carry my bags and earn a few gourd so they can feed their families. Then there was the man who was pulling the back end of a pick-up truck, loaded with burlap bags of "something", from one warehouse to another. My thought at the time was that one day he would earn enough to buy a donkey to pull that trailer or maybe even a whole truck. Either way it was his determination that struck my heart.

Then there was the man on the street who was shoveling gravel into a bulldozer bucket. The owner of the dozer allowed him to do this so he could earn a few HD (Haitian dollars). Yeah maybe that's why I love Haiti, because of the determination of the people to get better.

Or maybe it was the little girl at the school we had at Caradeaux. The little girl who took my hand and gave me a tour of the school my first day there. It didn't matter that I spoke NO Creole and she only knew how to say hello and thank you in English. We seemed to understand one another none the less.
Or could it have been the dedication of the teachers at the school who worked for very little to improve the lives of the next generation of Haitians.

I could go on and on because there weren't many things that I saw, heard, smelled, touched or tasted on my first trip to Haiti that didn't have some effect on my decision to "Choose Haiti over another country"

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