Everything in Haiti right now is a priority.
“Everything in Haiti right now is a priority.”
— Michel Martelly · Haiti
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Everything in Haiti right now is a priority.
“Everything in Haiti right now is a priority.”
— Michel Martelly · Haiti
Everything in Haiti right now is a priority.
The last five - six presidents of Haiti have failed miserably. And I don't think it would be an honor for me to say I want to be the next 'president.' I want to be the man by with whom change arrives.
It's time for Haitians to have access to health care. It's time to open our borders to the Haitian diaspora, open our markets to the world. It's time to open our country to potential investors.
International donors, our friends, should demand results; impose results. The fact of giving money is not helping if you give money to honest people and there is no structure to manage that money. It is not helping.
You know, we do not want the militarization of Haiti. We do not see a Haitian as a protectorate where it relinquishes its own sovereignty.
I think that if Haiti is not self-sufficient in food, it is because we have stopped working.
The diiference is that in the private sector you work for yourself, and as Prime Minister I work for every single Haitian - inside Haiti and outside - and for all those who love Haiti as well.
With Yele Haiti, the first thing was I'm proud of the organization and the work that the organization has done, and in the future hope to continue doing.
And the fact that Haiti was occupied for 19 years by the United States, from 1915 to 1934.
When you put more than a million kids in school, you take a plane today and go to Haiti, you cannot see the results. You will see the results in 30 years when you see a different type of Haitian.