It's the only time the wretched place appears in a month and it is a feel-good piece on a Slow Saturday.
If I didn't know better, I 'd swear the paper really doesn't care about Haiti or black people. Why no follow up on so many stories, BG?
"She helps Haitians help themselves; Ex-nurse, 83, nurtures artisans’ co-op, family planning clinic she founded" by James F. Smith, Globe Staff | November 28, 2009
GLOUCESTER - Some of the poorest people in the Western Hemisphere....
But some of the proudest!
The first nation created by former slaves -- and its been under attack ever since by its former colonial masters.
She founded a family planning clinic - butting heads early on with Catholic Church policy that forced birth control out of the local hospital. The family clinic now has mobile branches in surrounding villages, and serves 750 women. Hackett also spotted an extraordinary untapped talent in the community - the women’s embroidery skills. So she helped the women create an artisans’ sewing cooperative that now exports finely embroidered garments to the United States and Europe, providing a steady income for more than 70 women.
Hey, it's not like I'm not thankful for the agenda-pushing help for the Haitians (notice how globalists always want you making goods for export, never for yourself); however, there is a sea of poverty there because of the exact exploitative policies the paper promotes.
That's why they don't get back to us, huh, readers?
Don't want you digging to deep.
Hackett’s work long ago earned her the gratitude of Fond des Blancs. Now the nonprofit she created, Haiti Projects Inc., has earned international recognition. It was one of three winners last month of the annual Espíritu Award from the Isabel Allende Foundation, along with the Haiti work of Partners in Health, a global health group founded by a better-known Boston activist, Dr. Paul Farmer. The third winner was the St. Boniface Haiti Foundation, launched by a Catholic church in Quincy, that has worked in Fond des Blancs since 1983. The foundation survived the closure of the Quincy church and, now based in Randolph, runs the hospital and provides education and training programs.
Dr. Wilfrid Cadet, who now runs the growing St. Boniface Hospital, arrived soon after Hackett. In her first days there, he recalled, “She didn’t have a refrigerator. No TV, no radio, nothing, nothing. I never thought she would last this long in Haiti. To live in this rural part of Haiti you must have a mental toughness, as well as the strong desire to help others in need, and she has both.’’
Probably better off without those things.
Your mind doesn't get propagandized and you won't get upset.
Hackett arrived in Haiti after a life marked by personal loss and perseverance....
I thought this was ABOUT HAITI, not her!!!
