In the wake of the devastating January 12 earthquake, I have reactivated my one-year old blog, Haiti Phoenix. It has laid dormant these last nine months, its solitary post accusatorily pricking my guilty conscience. Now is the time to awake it from its inexcusable slumber.
As Haitians turn to the task of reconstruction of their devastated physical, social, and economic landscape with their legendary stoicism, what they will need more than anything else will be ideas, imaginative solutions to the many challenges the country has been facing in these last two centuries.
To stimulate the collective imagination and inspire action, I am turning Haiti Phoenix into a clearing house of ideas. Once a week I will be posting information garnered from my readings and from various web sources in the hope that such information might prove useful to organizations and individuals involved in the arduous enterprise of nation building. We do not have to reinvent the wheel. Many of the ideas posted on Haiti Phoenix will have been tried and applied elsewhere, in social, economic, political, and cultural contexts similar to the Haitian milieu.
I welcome contributions from Haitian compatriots and others who wish to share their own or others’ ideas for the resurrection of Haiti with Haiti Phoenix readers.
Please send your comments and texts to christophehenry1@hotmail.com .
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