Site Map Butter from Water Program for Haitian Street Youth Runs on Hope by Peter Constantini Haiti's current president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, founded it. The president-elect, Rene Preval, became friends with Aristide while working there. They've just finished a feast of fried chicken, rice and beans, and salad.
Teachers show kids how to throw yo-yos.
Younger boys put their presents back into the bags they came in and pull them out again. We try to make a real home with whatever we can beg or borrow. In 1986, Aristide, then a parish priest, joined with others to work with Haiti's street kids. If children's needs and values and the wisdom of their life experience could be heard and responded to by adults, the world would be a very different place. In the intervening years of repression, the number of homeless children in Haiti has doubled, the staff estimates.