#haiti

The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador attain liberty, and inspired our forefathers to shed their blood for the United States' independence, cannot die. Today, this spirit of solidarity must and will empower all of us to rebuild Haiti. ↗

— Jean-Bertrand Aristide

#black #blood #cannot #colombia #die

We don't intend to always keep this necessarily African oriented. Originally I had hoped to have African American Indian of this area, and the Appalachian of this area, but at the same time, just as we have the Haitian room, we will always have room for another exhibit. ↗

— Katherine Dunham

#african american #always #american #another #appalachian

Some people talk about Haiti as being the graveyard of development projects. ↗

— Paul Farmer

#being #development #graveyard #haiti #people

Civil and political rights are critical, but not often the real problem for the destitute sick. My patients in Haiti can now vote but they can't get medical care or clean water. ↗

— Paul Farmer

#civil #clean #clean water #critical #destitute

The biggest public health challenge is rebuilding health systems. In other words, if you look at cholera or maternal mortality or tuberculosis in Haiti, they're major problems in Haiti, but the biggest problem is rebuilding systems. ↗

— Paul Farmer

#biggest problem #challenge #cholera #haiti #health

Haiti is always talking about decentralization and nothing has been so obvious, perhaps a weakness, as the centralized nature of Haitian society as being revealed by the earthquake. I mean, they lost all these medical training programs because they didn't have them anywhere else. ↗

— Paul Farmer

#always #anywhere #because #been #being

I can't think of a better model for Haiti rebuilding than Rwanda. ↗

— Paul Farmer

#haiti #i #model #rebuilding #rwanda

I've been impressed, over the last 15 years, with how often the somewhat conspiratorial comments of Haitian villagers have been proven to be correct when the historical record is probed carefully. ↗

— Paul Farmer

#carefully #comments #conspiratorial #correct #haitian

I've been working in Haiti 28 years - I thought I'd sort of seen it... I've gone through a number of coups, the storms of 2008, I thought, you know, that I'd seen things as bad as they were going to get, and I was wrong. ↗

— Paul Farmer

#been #coups #get #going #gone

If any country was a mine-shaft canary for the reintroduction of cholera, it was Haiti - and we knew it. And in retrospect, more should have been done to prepare for cholera... which can spread like wildfire in Haiti... This was a big rebuke to all of us working in public health and health care in Haiti. ↗

— Paul Farmer

#been #big #canary #care #cholera