This page will highlight some of what my experience of Haiti has brought to light. Maybe some of your experiences might cause you to realize some of the same needs. As this page grows and changes I hope it will get smaller. As I experienced Haiti in January 1999, I discovered the great oppression of government and industry. Politicians most certainly have hooked up with industry leaders in order to keep the power they have and to make sure the poor stay in their current position of helplessness.
Land owners hire out the working of their fields to laborers.
The arrangement is usually set up so that the laborer, and his family, is given housing and a small salary from the sale of the produce in return for working the land. However, when a laborer does not receive his wages due to undesirable price levels in the market, he has no recourse but to starve. A coffee grower makes his profit by selling the beans, but the laborer cannot feed himself and his family on only his employer's coffee beans in order to survive when his wages are cut. The laborer is at the mercy of his employer. Life expectancy is only about 50 years old.