Handicapped in haiti: My Story of Edouard, The Crippled From Hinche

We are no better than handicaped people and we all handicap in our own way. For example I consider myself as handicap because my speech is very limited when it come to english speaking.

Sometime people hardly understand my point of view, I think we need to love people as who they are, and if we don't god won't be on our

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I feel that it takes you too long to come to the realisation that a physically or mentally challenged individual is not useless or incapable to make a contribution to the community where he resides.

I was born in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, and the people there always try to make fun of the handicapped.

A deaf and mute person, a blind, an epileptic; even a not so pleasing looking person, were not spared of this sort of riducule.

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This is a very good article.

Thank you for writing it. I too, as a kid in Port-au-Prince made fun of mentally handicapped people.

Now thinking back, there were two persons in my immediate then neighborhood who were cruelly harassed.

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Monche mwen tre kontan sa ou di ya, e mwen kontan ou paret avek ekxanp sa.mwen panse petet sa fe ou pa domi pou reflechi.

se yon mounn konsa ke mwen ye tou.sa fe mwen toujou panse ki sa mwen ka fe pou ede.se sa ki fe nan vi pamm mwen toujou ap swiv sa kap fet avan pou mwen reyaji pou di yon mo.se pou sa ki fe ou we mwen toujou di Ayisyen ki deyo a letranje yo, yo vini pou apran;pou yo ka ale fe chanjman peyi ayiti bezwen yan apre 206 ane indepandans.nou bezwen sezi ocasyon sa yo pou apran e ale sevi pep sa, ki te chwazi nan vi avan li te fet sou ter Ayiti ya, map di ou gen mounn ou te promet wap ede yo nan vi sa an Ayiti.epi yo chwazi yon fom ke ou pap rekonet yo le yo vini, sof ke ou aji fwa ou pou jwen mounn sa yo.yo vini sou de fom petet ki ka fe ou pote kritik nan vi sa sou mounn ki creye tout bagay ou we yo nan vi sa ki se God of Abraham, ki se Grand JE SUIS LE FILS UNIQUE DU PERE. MOUNN sa ou tande yo pale deli ki geri anpil mounn ki malad, sa ki te paralize pou yon long tan.ki fe tout sot mirak nan lavi lot mounn, poul ka montre le zom gen YON GRAND DIEU. santiman sa ou genyen pou EDouard se L"ESPRIT GRAND DIEU sa ki pale e touche esprit ou pou raple ou sevis ou dwe mounn sa yo nan vi ou.mwen gen plan pou ede mounn sa yo nan vi pa mwen.men mwen pa vle fe jan ou we mounn oganize yo pou yo rich sou tet mounn sa yo ki pov .anpil mounn vinn rich sou tet mounn sa yo.men geyen tou ki ki fe sa yo kapab avek tout onet te yo, men gen lot se pou woule oto, epi konronpi peyi ya plis nan zak malonet.

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