Haiti was phenomenal--phenomenally impactful, empowering, enriching. During the week of March 7th a group of 28 individuals from Morehouse College, Spelman College, and Georgia State were able to learn many things that deepened our understanding and hieghtened our empathy for the Haitian community. From our weeklong experience we were able to unviel these things:

• In Haiti there is raicism that would best be described as shadism. There is a feud between the light skinned and dark skinned Haitians, with the wealthy class being predominantly light skinned and the poor are predominantly dark skinned

• There is no middle class. There are two extremes of poverty in wealth in Haiti--in which the nation's wealth is controlled by .5% of the population.

• The typical Haitian lives without water, electricity , and education.

• There aren't any speed limits, stop signs, or many street lights throughout the entire island. The society enforces a patriarchal nature of culture amongst the poor which creates monotonous roles within the families and stimulates the low level of respect help for women.

These things have shown us that there is hope for Haiti. We've examined the social conventions, financial constraints, the Haitian economy, and the land to collectively pinpoint solutions towards rectifying these problems. With that we want to use the upcoming missions of service to Haiti for expansion and greater impact on Haiti. however tthe expansion can not be brought into fruition unless the sufficient amount of monetary support has been collected. We hope that this blog provides insight into our week long life changing experience, and motivates you to provide monetary support.