Most things in Haiti are imported. Paying ten dollars for powder milk and shampoo and conditioner at a grocery store is a bit much I think. Third world standards don’t really seem to apply here though. I wonder how such things are afforded by the local people. I wonder if they even care for powder milk. Gas costs five US dollars a gallon. I see a Texaco on our way back through the city one night.
We stop by a local organization to get some information for students on families and growth. Most organizations set up in Haiti are about sex education.
I wonder if sex education and awareness have positive outcomes in Haiti. There are many programs and foreign NGOs aiming to educate people especially woman. AIDS is common. Households have multiple children. Birth control isn’t really a reality here. Monogamy is not common. Infant mortality is widespread. This is the Haitian culture. It is not one to consider inferior. It is inferior in the eyes of those who don’t understand the ways others live. It is what it is. I wonder if it was the same before. I wonder what it will become.
Education has a different concept here. There are many outreach programs to create awareness on nutrition and sex education. To reach an entire population is a outrageous task. To reach out and change an entire society is generations worth of effort, maybe forever is not so far away.
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