Meaningful World’s 11th Humanitarian Mission to Haiti Sustainable Community Healing, Peace-Building, and Meaning-Making for a Healthy Haiti

Abstract

With the blazing sun and humidity of Haiti, the Meaningful world team began its 11th humanitarian mission to Haiti in Port-au-Prince (PAP), (17 June to 3 July) with a population of 1,234,742. We travelled on roads with holes as big as a vehicle, stopping the traffic and creating chaos. We witnessed women with their voluptuous bodies, rolled up skirts and bosoms partially covered, sitting in the grounding squatted position all day long, just to sell a dozen of mangos, bananas, or pineapples. Their sweat running down their bodies, glistening in the blistering sunshine. Facing issues such as colonization, bureaucracy, corruption, poverty, illiteracy, earthquake, hurricanes, piles of trash in the streets and political oppression, their faces remain stoic with a hint of apathy.