In the 90s, i served briefly as a United Nations project Engineer in Port-au-Prince Haiti. I considered myself then, as i do now as someone with an open and Liberal mind, but i was very concerned and scared to go to Haiti. The only images i had seen of Haiti then was a garbage dump of a capital city, filthy and unfit to live in. This was the way the international press presented the country. I did some personal research then and found out that the articles were basically focused on down town Port-au -Prince and so i hauled off to Haiti. To my surprise, i never saw a garbage dump of city!...Haiti was beautiful, Petionville on the north side of the capital city was easily comparable to the cobbled stoned boutique- lined neighborhoods in Paris. There was Armani, Versace, Fendi......you name it! The beaches were pristine and isolated. Of course the nightclubs were phenomenal, full of beautiful and nice people. I did see a garbage dump eventuially, but that was way down town Pot-au Prince, no different from what Dawah Sese Koker has been posting about his beloved country, Sierra Leone. My friends i share this because i am bringing up my own son, not to be dogged or influenced by reckless, irresponsible and depressing images that are posted about his fathers country of birth. I tell him that not all of Sierra Leone is a garbage dump. i tell him about the beautiful and pristine beaches of Tokeh and York!.......Most of all , i tell him about the smiling faces and hospitality of the Sierra Leonean people......God bless them!
Posted on: Wed, 03 Sep 2014 10:41:31 +0000
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