Like Obama, Stand Up For Change in Haiti

Haitian American Flag

Proud to be Haitian for what?

I thought when you are proud of something or someone you take care of it, nurture it so it can stay in the condition or state to make you proud.

How can one be proud of something that you haven't done a thing to help.

For example, would it make sense to walk around saying to everybody that you are proud of a child that you had nothing to do with taking care of or raising? That would be ridiculous.

Well we sound just has equally absurd when we walk around saying that we are proud to be Haitian yet do nothing to help save it.

Children are dying in Haiti at an alarming rate and we just keep on looking the other way and waiting for someone else to do something while we have the power to do it ourselves.

What is this characteristic that we have in us that makes us so cold-hearted, selfish and uncompassionate, that we can sit here comfortably and watch our once beautiful country and the people in it suffer and die?

It is an embarrassment, but yet and still "we are proud to be Haitian"

What a joke?

I have a small nonprofit organization by the name of OASIS for Children, Inc. We are an organization that makes an honest attempt and effort to make a difference in Haiti. Along with a small orphanage we do mass feedings, educate children, etc.

We are 4 years old and in those for years only about 2%(maybe less) of our donations and support received thus far has come from Haitians.

What on earth is this about?

How is it that Europeans and other nationalities are more concerned with helping Haiti than we are?

Why is it that we want to sit back and waist our time trying to figure what stars are Haitian and plan for the next Haitian day parade or carnival yet we refuse to do a darn thing to save our own.

I just don't understand our behavior and school of thought. For the life of me, I just don't get it.

What is going on in that country to make us say we are proud to be Haitian?

• Are we proud that another ten thousand children died today in Haiti?
• Are we proud that our country is known to be the most corrupt country in the world?
• Are we proud that Haiti is known to be the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere?

ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS PEOPLE!!

You want to show how much you love your country and are proud of it, support an organization that is positively impacting Haiti. If you don't have the money to make a donation than help do a fundraiser. Give back in some other way. Just do something!

Even if only 10% of Haitians here in America would do something to help Haiti, it would make such a huge impact.

Just like Obama had to stand for "change" here in America, it's time for Haitians here in America to stand for change in Haiti.

Luceanna Altino- Moore
OASIS for Children, Inc.
President
www.oasisforchildren.org
mailto:godsoasis@hotmail.com godsoasis@hotmail.com
Ph# 908-208-1311
Fax: 732-227-0846
P.O. Box 5231
Somerset, NJ 08874-5231

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