Hi Divergence,

I agree with you, there is a very long road from Haiti to Hong Kong, but my point was that vital items in the backpack are education, particularly for women, if population growth is to be reduced, and economic development away from agriculture, towards manufacturing and services. Difficult ? Yes, yes and yes. Impossible ? No.

Yes, if international blood-suckers (including the Church) get off the backs of the Haitian people, if corruption can be controlled and aid directed to specific tasks and projects, if the human abilities of the people are built on, and if people around the world give them the support they deserve, after hundreds of years of exploitation and misery.

Joe Lane