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Haiti's Brain Drain: 85 percent of Haitian College Graduates leave the country

Did I read this correctly? Eighty five percent of college graduates in Haiti leave the country. Talk about a brain drain!

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When people leave a country that is called emigration. But when skilled individuals emigrate from a country like Haiti, that leads to loss of valuable human capital. That is called Haiti's brain drain.

What do OUR LEADERS have to do in order to get these Haitian college graduates to come back to Haiti to serve the nation?

85 percent? My goodness that's a lot.

Back in May 2012 when this article was originally published, I was reading this article on energy.aol.com with the title "An unlikely energy development opportunity emerges in Haiti." In the article, I stumbled onto a pagragraph addressing education in Haiti.

You know me, I am always looking for the little story inside the story.

The following is one of the paragraphs in the article:

"Education is also a major part of GEM's initiative and the lead phase of all project implementation will be education that will address the "brain drain" issue. Eighty five percent of college graduates in Haiti leave the country, he [as in Daniel Lemons, CEO of the GEM Institute] said. Part of the goal is to develop the indigenous engineering and project management expertise needed to operate and maintain the country's energy infrastructure over the long term."

So back in May 2012 it was already an issue that the brains of Haiti were leaving the country. If we dig deeper we'll find out that this has been going on for decades.

As of the last update of this article, July 2023, we see a plethora of Haitian brains living the country because of insecurity and gang violence.

This article addressed the lack of indigenous engineers needed to maintain Haiti's energy infrastructure. That was 2012.

In other words, in order for Haiti to become HI-TECH, we need lots of HIGH-TECH indigenous (native) brains to maintain a HIGH-TECH Haiti.

But how would we get that when we have people in power and a corrupt oligarchy who do nothing but chase away the smartest Haitians among Us?

You think this a joke?

Around the time does it this article was originally published , back in May 2012, the Haitian government was importing mechanics from Cuba!

This could only mean that the best and brightest Haitian mechanics have left the country to seek opportunity elsewhere.

Somebody need to start giving the diaspora an incentive to return home. I am not kidding.

When you factor in the generation of proffessionals of Haitian descent born and raised outside of Haiti, the Haitian brain drain percentage jumps to a lot more than 85 percent.

If given the proper incentives, they would come back home. believe me, they would return to Haiti.

I've been gone since I was about 12 years old, I think I know what I am talking about.

Question: What do you think OUR LEADERS need to do to get these Haitian college graduates to come back to Haiti and be of service to the nation?

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