All Hail The Whistleblowers: Èzili Dantò Tells How The U.S. Enslaved Haiti

Èzili Dantò is an original source on the conditions of Haiti, yet, mainstream media ignores her, or

http://www.ezilidanto.com/

rather blacklists her as a whistleblower.

The Clinton Bush Haiti Fund, being run in the name of Bill Frist, was not properly registered with the Michigan Attorney General Charity Section, but it seems it was finally taken down, but I wonder what happened to the, if I can recall correctly, $65 million that it never gave to Haiti.

I know I have a screenshot of the filing, but can not find it at the moment.

The funds were either transferred to another George Bush child welfare NGO, but something tells me my #Superfans got a hold of it, but hey, what do I know?

Anyway, the following links are to NGOs of Michigan State University for Haiti, where no one really knows if the people benefited.

Considering the political unrest, child trafficking, and abject poverty, I am going to go out there on a limb and state that I am pretty much confident the people of Haiti did not benefit.

The financial keyman, Clinton Foundation, redirected over $10 billion dollars to child welfare NGOs using Michigan State University as a conduit in many instances.

MSU LANDS USAID GRANT TO HELP FEED HAITI - $2 million USAID

Since the Clinton Foundation, and its other Ham Sandwiches, as it is a Corporate Shape Shifter, laundered the money through MSU, the same exact way the Detroit Land Bank Authority laundered its checks through Title Source, because it never incorporated and could not open a bank account.

Clinton Bush Haiti Fund: YouthBuild IDEJEN Project

http://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2010/sparrow-msu-team-up-to-provide-medical-relief-long-term-aid-to-haiti/

https://www.sparrowfoundation.org/page.aspx?pid=438

http://std.alliedacademies.com/speaker/2017/reza-nassiri-michigan-state-university-usa

It also seems the Michigan socioeconomic policy experiment sister state of Kansas was also in on the game of using the people of Haiti as unwitting biomedical human test subjects.

http://chibas-bioenergy.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=59&Itemid=36

https://www.k-state.edu/media/newsreleases/2016-11/smilgranthaiti111816.html

https://healinghaiti.org/

https://mcc.org/stories/healing-emotional-pain-supporting-mental-health-haiti

According to Dady Chery only 3% went to assist the people of Haiti.

But there is another story of Haiti and the U.S. which has yet to be told.

It seem USAID used Staff of the Congressional Office of John Conyers, Jr. to fund a $2 billion fraud scheme.

It also seems Judiciary was running a trafficking of tiny humans fraud scheme, too.

It also seems Judiciary was also promulgating privatization of child welfare in Haiti.

The Clintons, Haiti, Children and The Peculiar Institution

Learn more: BEVERLY TRAN: The Clintons, Haiti, Children and The Peculiar Institution http://beverlytran.blogspot.com/2016/11/the-clintons-haiti-children-and.html#ixzz5KhNHXLnB
Stop Medicaid Fraud in Child Welfare 

Wikileaks Uncovers Child Trafficking In Haiti

Restavek, child slavery, is the Haitian term for foster care, which are run by christian NGOs, but there are other, "non-religious" privatized NGOs that want to get in on the trafficking of tiny humans game in Haiti, which was being promoted through Judiciary, against my duly noted reservations, because Judiciary always ignored me.

So, did the Congressional Black Caucus, but they hate me anyway because I found out why they were being mean to my Sweetie.

They were stealin' the children, the land and the votes of Haiti by promoting the privatized polices of slavery.

Will The Lumos Foundation Push Into Global Child Welfare Include The U.S.?

Learn more: BEVERLY TRAN: Will The Lumos Foundation Push Into Global Child Welfare Include The U.S.? http://beverlytran.blogspot.com/2016/10/will-lumos-foundation-push-into-global.html#ixzz5Khj0axle
Stop Medicaid Fraud in Child Welfare 

I always thought Judiciary ignored me because they were too busy plotting and scheming being mean to my Sweetie.

Without further adieu, I would like to introduce the work of Èzili Dantò, an attorney, because the main stream media refuses to speak her name or her work in Haiti.

Have a great day!

Haiti, The Government-Run Narco State

What's going on in the DEA office in Haiti? House Oversight wants DOJ investigation

Government sanctions Dominican Senator Felix Bautista for corruption

Now, that everyone has enjoyed meeting Èzili Dantò and a snapshot of what is really going on in Haiti, you are prepared to understand why the people are protesting against U.S. citizens.

Sometimes, you just reach that point where you are sick of being enslaved.

As Haiti protests continue, US citizens warned to shelter in place

The US Embassy in Haiti warned its citizens Saturday to stay inside amid continued demonstrations in the capital of Port-au-Prince and a northern city following a fuel price hike.

Protesters have been demonstrating this week against a sharp rise in fuel prices ordered by the government.

Prime Minister Jack Guy Lafontant on Saturday announced a temporary stop to the price increases and appealed for calm. Prices for gasoline were to rise 38% while diesel prices were to go up 47% and kerosene 51%, the Haitian daily newspaper Le Nouvelliste reported.

An estimated 120 American and 100 Haitian guests are staying in a Port-au-Prince hotel where demonstrators earlier tried to set fire to the hotel and get past security, said Stacy Librandi Bourne, an emergency medical professional from HERO Client Rescue who is at the Oasis Hotel.

After the Prime Minister's announcement, the situation calmed down, she said.

US officials told tourists and missionaries to shelter in place.

"Do not attempt to travel at this time. Avoid protests and any large gathering of people. Do not attempt to drive through roadblocks," a State Department Bureau of Consular Affairs official said.

There are no reports of US citizens in Haiti being injured, the embassy said.

US group encounters trouble at roadblock

A youth group from Bradenton, Florida, that was scheduled to return from a missionary trip in Haiti is stranded until at least Monday, Executive Pastor Dewayne McFarlin said.

The group from Bradenton's Woodland Community Church left Neply, Haiti, early Saturday for a 3 p.m. flight from Port-au-Prince International Airport, McFarlin said. Only a few miles into the approximately 30-mile journey, the group, which includes middle school- and high school-age children, encountered armed individuals demanding payment for access to the roadway, according to McFarlin.

They talked their way past the roadblock, but elected to turn around when they came to second group of armed individuals who had erected a blockade of burning tires on the road, McFarlin says.

A local colleague of McFarlin's was riding on a motorcycle a few miles ahead of the missionary group's bus. The friend called him to say that the road ahead was filled with similar impromptu "checkpoints," McFarlin said.

"They weren't government or police," McFarlin says. "Just people taking advantage of the situation."

The group returned to Neply but McFarlin said he thinks they won't get out until Monday at the earliest.

Canceled flights

American Airlines, JetBlue and Spirit Airlines said Saturday they have canceled flights to Haiti.

American spokesman Curtis Blessing said the airline canceled seven flights and will re-evaluate the situation Sunday.

Spirit said it will resume service as soon as possible.

Congressional Black Caucus Haiti DHS Temporary Protected Status Update Letter 11-3-17 by Beverly Tran on Scribd

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Conyers Reintroduces Haiti Recovery Legislation On The Second Anniversary of Devastating Earthquake

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For Immediate Release
Date:  Thursday, January 12, 2012
Contact: Matthew Morgan – 202-226-5543

Conyers Reintroduces Haiti Recovery Legislation On The Second Anniversary of Devastating Earthquake

(Washington, D.C.) – Today, Representative John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) announced the reintroduction of the “Haiti Empowerment, Assistance and Rebuilding (HEAR) Act of 2012.”  The HEAR Act authorizes up to $2 billion over the next two years to support the sustainable recovery and long- term rebuilding of Haiti.   The bill outlines critical strategic initiatives and mandates to ensure that U.S. assistance efforts comprehensively address the priorities of the people of Haiti. 

“Two years after its devastating earthquake, stability and long-term recovery in Haiti remains elusive,” said Conyers.  “If we are to fulfill the commitments made by the American people in the weeks and months following that terrible tragedy, the United States must establish and commit to a long-term reconstruction assistance plan.  The HEAR Act would allow for the creation and implementation of such a strategy and I call on my colleagues in the House and the Senate to pass it without delay.

“With 70 percent of the population unemployed or underemployed and half a million Haitians still living in camps, there is clearly much more that must be accomplished.  A comprehensive development and recovery strategy will go a long way towards remedying these failings and ultimately creating a country that provides greater economic equality, independence, and democratic accountability for the Haitian people.”

The HEAR Act will improve the United States’ ability to assist with the long-term rebuilding of Haiti by:

·         Authorizing up to $2 billion over the next two years to support Haiti reconstruction and rebuilding in order to demonstrate a long-term commitment to assisting the people of Haiti recover from the devastation of the January 12, 2010 earthquake.

·         Directing the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to prepare and submit a comprehensive rebuilding and development strategy for Haiti, in consultation with the Government of Haiti, civil society organizations, private sector entities, and other implementing partners, and in coordination with the international community.  The strategy should include specific and measurable goals, benchmarks and time frames, an implementation plan to achieve policy objectives, and a detailed monitoring and evaluation plan tied to quantifiable and measurable indicators.

·         Establishing a strategic policy framework to affirm and build a long-term partnership with Haiti and ensure U.S. assistance efforts will comprehensively address critical priorities, in support of the Government of Haiti and the Haitian people, including:

o   Just, democratic, and competent governance, including security sector reform and strengthening;

o   Economic growth and economic sustainability, including investments in infrastructure, improved urban management, and agricultural development;

o   Environmentally sustainable programs that are respectful and restorative of Haiti’s natural resources; and

o   Investments in people, particularly women and children.

·         Ensuring that rebuilding and reconstruction efforts build from existing assessments for Haiti and support the Government of Haiti’s Action Plan for the Reconstruction and National Development of Haiti, other existing development plans for Haiti, including the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper for Haiti, and follow shared principles in the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness and the Accra Agenda for Action.

What is Union School in Haiti where the late Monica Petersen Supposedly Taught?

US Embassy Compound Haiti Across from Gated Community for Embassy Workers

What is Union School in Haiti where a Monica Petersen is listed as a teacher for the 2016-2017 school year (believed to be the Monica Petersen who is said to have recently died in Haiti)? Union School was founded in 1919, for the children of US Marines, subsequent to the 1915 US invasion of Haiti.

Currently, Union School is a US government funded High School in Port-au-Prince Haiti, at a great distance from the region where Monica had supposedly done research on human trafficking, and allegedly intended to do more. Poor infrastructure makes the distance even greater.

Union School is also a grotesquely high-priced “elite” “prep school” for the children of US government officials, other expats, and Haitians with plenty of money in a desperately poor country. One graduate is President Martelly’s wife, Sophia.

The cost of tuition for high school students is over $13,000 per year, which, to give an idea, is slightly above the US annual income poverty level for one person. It would be difficult for this sort of annual tuition to come from honest money anywhere, especially in Haiti (although in the US not impossible, depending on the definition of honest). It would be interesting to know if this school is free to the children of US embassy workers or if they get a special stipend, or if they pay from their inflated salaries.

The US State Department doesn’t specify how much funding is given, but they do give some funding through the “Office of Overseas Schools”, and the amount must be someplace. One can speculate that they pay for school expenses not covered by tuition. (See US State Department description of the school at the bottom of our post)

The Union School is supposed to be certified as a US high school equivalent. And, yet, Monica Petersen who was supposed to have an undergraduate degree in Social Anthropology and a Master’s Degree from Korbel School of International Studies is listed as teaching High School US History, US Government, and even Entrepreneurship at Union School. Let’s hear that again – a social anthropology undergrad degree with an international studies master’s degree teaching US History, US Government, and Entrepreneurship (Business)! Furthermore, within most – maybe all- US states a high school teacher must either hold degrees in education or undergo special training and certification in order to teach, in stark contrast to college-university professors, who can theoretically teach with “only” a Masters or Ph.D. in the field of interest.

In short, based on the information which can be found, Monica was not qualified to teach the courses at this overpriced high school. Once again, this is if it’s the same Monica.

Since Haiti has become “stylish” and there are plenty of desperate, unemployed, Americans, it would probably be easy to find plenty of properly, formally, qualified teachers for this position – teachers who have degrees in education with a focus on US History, US Government, and teachers who have degrees in business education.

Furthermore, no one who was a true advocate of social justice, and who was energetic enough for an internet search or two, or had read a book about Haiti, would consider working at this school. They would not be able to stomach it. Instead, they would consider schools affiliated with the Aristide Foundation, or some other schools meant to serve the poor.

In a little bit of text attributed to Monica online, we find someone who apparently didn’t know when George Bush, Sr., Bill Clinton, and George Bush Jr. were president; nor the years of the coup d’etats against former Haitian president Aristide, nor, the fact that Clinton invaded to bring President Aristide back (in 1994) – he didn’t remove him. If she had any knowledge of these facts, she would not have falsely claimed that it was Clinton who removed Aristide, whereas it was the Bushes both times. And, yet, they had her teaching US History and Government?

In another little bit of text attributed to Monica, one finds that she reportedly arrived in Haiti in August of 2015. Although she supposedly wrote on the 15th of August that she was down in Haiti doing research for the next 3 weeks on human trafficking, we aren’t told when she arrived.

The parliamentary elections were on August 9th and a couple of months before the Haitian presidential elections had been planned: “Parliamentary elections were held in Haiti on 9 August 2015, with a second round planned initially on 25 October. Two-thirds of the Senate and all members of the Chamber of Deputies were up for election. The second round of the parliamentary elections that has been suspended in 2015 should take place in October 2016, alongside with the first round for a third of the Senate and the first round of the whole new presidential election.“. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haitian_parliamentary_election,_2015–16. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haitian_presidential_election,_2015 . She supposedly died on the 13th of November, exactly one week before the Haitian Presidential Election runoff:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haitian_presidential_election,_2016–17 Is all of this a mere coincidence?

Is she really even dead?

Remember where Monica supposedly graduated from school: the Josef Korbel School of International Studies. Students from Korbel “have interned with the U.S. Department of State, the U.S. Department of Defense, the United Nations, the FBI, the OECD, and World Vision International,among others“.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Korbel_School_of_International_Studies Korbel and its graduates seem to be very much at the heart of US government foreign affairs. See:https://miningawareness.wordpress.com/2016/11/23/monica-petersen-condolezza-rice-korbel-school-and-the-haitian-elections-monica-dead-or-us-gov-agent/.

Strangely, there is no record of her Master’s thesis.

Did she do an internship instead of a thesis? Or? Normally Master’s theses titles may be found online.

The US State Department really should report about Monica’s death, if she is dead.

Since she was an American abroad she is their responsibility and she was working at a school funded by them and hence by the US taxpayer.

Where is the notice on the Haiti Embassy web site?

Where is the notice on the Union School web site?

Why is everyone so tight-lipped?

Isn’t it frightening and curious that someone could go abroad and apparently disappear and almost no one seems to care?

US State Department Page on Union School. The cost is at the bottom.

Sophia Martelly was a Union School Graduate:

Does anyone recall what happened to the investigating judge who was examining allegations of corruption against Haiti’s Presidential Family (wife, Sophia Martelly and son Oliver)?

He dropped dead. Multiple witnesses said that he met with Haiti’s President Martelly and Prime Minister Lamothe, and was threatened.

Senate and Chamber Inquest Reports advised the impeachment of Martelly, Lamothe and the Minister of Justice.

They concluded that the death was caused by fear. Others believe that Judge Joseph was poisoned.

It seems that the corruption investigation has gone nowhere since the death of the judge.

Additionally, Enold Florestal who filed the complaint against the Presidential family was arrested and put in jail.https://miningawareness.wordpress.com/2014/03/01/haiti-one-step-forward-in-getting-duvalier-and-the-martellys/

If you want a Haiti murder mystery, read our posts about the Mysterious Death of Judge Joseph.
It’s been so long since we wrote them that we no longer recall what is in them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_School_Haiti

Disclaimer: Note that most of the above information can currently still easily be found online with searches. It is based on both information which is found online which was supposedly written by Monica Petersen – though there is no proof that it is indeed her work- as well as public information which was available in various places, such as the Korbel Human Trafficking Center Facebook page, and the Union School web site. In some places she was listed as social science teacher for Union, but the details indicate US history, US government, Entrepreneurship. Note that there are many Monica Petersens in the US. And, she was allegedly a nanny. While evidence points toward her being a US government agent, this may or may not have been the case. Perhaps she simply worked happily in the given environment without questioning or challenging. It is also possible that she saw corruption at the school and complained. Or that she simply pissed off some rich Haitian kid who had her killed. She may have been a victim of random crime. We probably will never know, as they said at her Memorial.

Lesson to be learned: Study your school and the source of funding for any scholarships and grants before going there; before accepting them. If you intend to go abroad, do your research and make sure you know what you are getting into. In the past students (and workers) got in trouble because they did not understand the source of funding. With the Internet there is little excuse not to do thorough research.

The shortest way to get from the US through the Panama Canal is by Haiti. Thus, as long as the US needs to send commercial or military shipments through the Panama Canal, the US will never allow Haiti to really be free. All of the rest of its problems appear an outgrowth of its important geostrategic location. The US first invaded in World War I when Germany had a lot of power in Haiti. Only if Haiti became a US State could it become quasi-free. But, Haiti wouldn’t accept this, and it is unlikely that the US would.

US poverty level: http://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/cps/tables/time-series/historical-poverty-thresholds/thresh15.xls (Note that no one could live on this amount without sharing a household (e.g. renting a room); owning their own house in a homestead exception state; and possibly walking everywhere, growing their own food, etc. At a slightly lower amount one becomes eligible for subsidized housing, etc. in some states. It still remains a lot of money for tuition, especially for Haiti.)

https://miningawareness.wordpress.com/2016/11/25/what-is-union-school-in-haiti-where-the-late-monica-petersen-supposedly-taught/

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CARIS Foundation To Launch Another USAID Faith Based Child Welfare Hustle

Oh, those wild and wacky Christians are still at it with the Clinton Foundation in Haiti.

When I first came across this "Catholics In Action" $98.5 million benevolent gift to Haiti children through USAID, you know I had to drop everything I was doing, get comfortable, and get into the spirit of fuchsia.

Always starting with the mission statement, I saw the footprints of Hillary Clinton.

OUR MISSION IS TO DEMONSTRATE GRACE TO IMPOVERISHED PEOPLES

• EMPOWER participants to fulfill their God-given potential Who the hell is the one who determines if a participant fulfill's their God-given potential?  This is nothing but code wording for humans as capital.  What is the best interests to be garnered from the future return of the child?  How much can CARIS generate from leveraging the trust funds of children?
•  SUSTAIN that potential by training and equipping Sustaining is what is meant by cheap labor.  You cannot call it slave labor because slavery is illegal.  We call it sustaining the operations of the private investors from USAID, which has proven to be nothing more than an international slush fund for those in political office. 
• TRANSFORM character and community from one of despair and survival to hope and productivity If the Clinton Foundation did not come in to traffic the children, strip the land of natural resources, and set up human trafficking operations in their sweat shops, perhaps, just perhaps, the more than $10 billion that disappeared from the International Haiti Relief Commission, may have transformed the character and community from one of despair and survival to hope and productivity, in the name of Haiti, and not the Clinton Foundation.

The CARIS Foundation even engages in microloans, the model that forces women and children into the sex trafficking industry.

Then, I began to dig even further and found this fun one in the archives.

Caris Foundation International received an award from the USNS Comfort for outstanding community outreach at the third annual Fete des Enfants, or Caris Kids Day. Caris hosted this recreational event where volunteers served over 400 children in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Other partners for the event included Union School Haiti and over twenty businesses and service organizations. As attendees arrived, the Navy Band from US Navy Ship (USNS) Comfort performed jazz and pop hits. The USNS Comfort is a part of the American naval fleet that provides free medical services to vulnerable populations. The day was filled with special events including sports, exercise and arts stations. JPerry, Haitian singer and songwriter, surprised attendees with a performance of “Dekole” and “Bouje,” his two most popular songs.

What jumped out at me from this 2013 press release was "Union School Haiti" and then I had all the verification that I needed that the CARIS Foundation was nothing but another child welfare fraud scheme because Monica Peterson not only worked there during its time, she was also murdered.

Not suicide.  Murder and if anyone challenges this, they are part of the cover up because this is personal.

Then the CARIS Foundation went on its merry way to continue its child welfare hustle Haiti.

CARIS FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL TO LEAD CONSORTIUM IN $98.5 MILLION USAID HEALTH PROGRAM IN HAITI

Project Santé, a Cooperative Agreement Between USAID and Caris Foundation International, to Expand Essential Healthcare for up to 4.2 Million Haitian People

COLLEYVILLE, Texas, Dec. 18, 2017 – Caris Foundation™, a non-profit, private foundation founded by the David D. Halbert family, announced that its subsidiary, Caris Foundation International™, has entered a cooperative agreement with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to bolster health care in Haiti through a $98.5 million investment over the next four years. ‘Santé’ (“Health” in Haitian Kreyol) will be implemented as a consortium with Caris Foundation International as the leader, Catholic Medical Mission Board (CMMB) and the Haitian Health Foundation, with the overall goal of assisting, strengthening and expanding essential health services, ultimately serving up to 4.2 million Haitian people. The project will expand and support the work of more than 160 hospitals and clinics nationally to provide quality care.

As part of a patient-centered approach, Santé will provide integrated maternal and child care to Haitian families, with a particular focus on immunization, reproductive health, nutrition services and HIV prevention, care and treatment. Working in partnership with the Haitian Government, USAID, non-government organizations and faith-based organizations, the ‘Package of Essential Services’ national strategy will be realized.

“Caris Foundation’s objective is to help relieve as much human suffering worldwide as possible, and through our hard work and passion for the people of Haiti we have been blessed to be able to build impactful, patient-focused medical programs for children and families affected by HIV,” said Nathaniel Segaren, M.D., M.B.A, M.P.H., Country Director for Caris Foundation International. “We are excited to build upon our existing programs and we look forward to working with our other Santé Consortium partners to broaden access to essential, high quality health care for the Haitian communities served through the project.”

“We are thrilled to partner with USAID, Caris Foundation and CMMB, and convinced that our combined strengths, experience and strong community ties will enable successful completion of the strategic objectives of Santé,” said Nadesha Mijoba, M.S.-C.E.D., M.P.H., Country Director of the Haitian Health Foundation.

“I cannot overstate how privileged CMMB feels to be able to work with two of its partners, Caris Foundation and Haitian Health Foundation, to positively impact the provision of quality health care services across Haiti and to facilitate community involvement in the Haitian health care system,” said Dianne J. Francois, Country Director of CMMB.

For more information, visit the U.S. Embassy in Haiti website here and Caris Foundation online at www.CarisFoundation.org.

About Caris Foundation ™

Caris Foundation™ is a non-profit, private foundation that aids and empowers impoverished people to alleviate as much human suffering as possible. Caris Foundation focuses its efforts to establish a local presence within communities in order to understand the people’s basic needs and implement solutions that are culturally relevant and sustainable. The foundation was founded and is solely funded by the Halbert family. Headquartered in Colleyville, Texas, Caris Foundation provides medical and empowerment services in Haiti, Kenya and other areas across the globe in need of help. Learn more at www.CarisFoundation.org.

About Haitian Health Foundation

Haitian Health Foundation is a non-profit organization, currently operating in the Grand Anse region, that works to improve the health and well-being of women, children, families and communities through dental, mental and primary health care services, nutritional support, access to education, sustainable community development strategies, and other essential services to over 250,000 Haitian people.  Headquartered in Norwich, Connecticut, HHF has provided services to the people of Haiti since 1985.  Learn more at www.HaitianHealthFoundation.org.

About Catholic Medical Mission Board

CMMB has had roots in Haiti since the early 20th century, when its founder went there to minister to lepers.  Today, it is a highly-respected non-profit organization, driven by its faith-based mission of service, to promote healthier lives worldwide by working in partnerships to deliver locally sustainable, quality health solutions to women, children, and their communities.  Learn more at www.cmmb.org.

About USAID

USAID is the lead U.S. Government agency that works to end extreme global poverty and enable resilient, democratic societies to realize their potential.

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Wikileaks Uncovers Child Trafficking In Haiti

Snatching children from the poor who traditionally hail from the nations of "darker persuasions" in the name of God is just the oldest form of survival.

The proper term of snatching kids from parents is called "termination of parental rights" for "abuse and neglect" which are in the "best interests of the child", just because they are poor.

This is foster care.

Welcome to the unraveling of child welfare fraud, not just in Haiti, not just in the U.S., but the entire world.

This is the Clinton Global Initiative.

This is the Adoption and Families Safe Act.

This is privatization.

https://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/32/323249_-os-haiti-us-legal-adviser-to-u-s-haiti-missionaries.html

The child snatchers: Special report from Haiti on the U.S. missionaries accused of 'stealing orphans' and why - most shockingly of all - their parents say they would give them away again

Four women suspected of being involved in an illegal adoption scheme
are being held at behind bars at Port-au-Prince

We found Benatide's mother high up a mountain in a tiny house with half the roof ripped off by the earthquake and scrawny chickens pecking in the dust under a fierce Haitian sun.

For longer than she cares to remember, it has been a struggle to keep her three children on the few pounds a week she makes from selling vegetables which grow on the scrap of land surrounding her home.

But now Adrienne Poulime has one less mouth to feed.

Ten days ago she gave away her youngest daughter, 12-year-old Benatide, to a group of American Baptists who promised to give her a better life abroad by finding a Christian family to adopt her.

'There was nothing left for the girl here after the earthquake last month,' says Adrienne simply as she sits on a pile of rubble, overlooking the country's devastated capital, Port-au-Prince, below in the valley. 'Benatide's school has shut down.

'We didn't have enough food to put on the table for everyone. It was bad in Haiti before the earthquake - now it's far worse. I let her go because I hoped that one day she would do well and come back and help the family.'

She clasps the hands of her other children, Alain, 18, and daughter, Carline, 21, as we talk of Benatide, who is now living at the international SOS children's refuge 20 miles away from her family's village of Calebasse.

She was taken there by Haitian police the Friday before last, just after she and 32 other children - including 19 from her village - were discovered being spirited out of the country by the Baptists from churches in Idaho, Utah and Texas.

On Thursday, the five men and five women Baptists, led by a 40-year-old Idaho businesswoman called Laura Silsby, were charged with child abduction and criminal conspiracy. If convicted, they face lengthy terms in a Haitian prison.

Benatide Poulime, 12, is one of the
Haiti 'orphans' taken by a group of baptists

Meanwhile, the children remain at the refuge - and have not been returned to their homes while an investigation goes on into their parents' decision to give them up.

The authorities, growing increasingly alarmed at the numbers of Haitian children disappearing overseas, want to find out if they were coerced into handing them over or did so willingly.

Since the earthquake on January 12, 300 children have been given to new families in the U.S., Canada and the Netherlands. More adoptions are in the pipeline, many arranged by orphanages in Haiti. It is estimated that 7,000 children could leave the country over the next year. 

In many of the cases, the adoptive parents have not met the children before choosing them - they have simply picked them from photographs.

To speed up the adoptions, the White House has approved a fast-tracking system to relieve Haiti's orphanages, which are overflowing with parentless and lost children since the earthquake.

Laura Silsby, left, and Charisa Coulter, pictured \
after they were arrested trying to cross into the
Dominican Republic with a busload of 33 children

Once children arrive in America and are introduced to their family at the airport, they are taken to special centres where lawyers are on hand to complete adoption papers in a process that can take just half an hour.

And, of course, there is no shortage of youngsters available. It is estimated that 300,000 children in Haiti lost one parent, or both, in the earthquake.

A large number of Haiti orphanages were also destroyed, leaving a shortage of beds for orphans who now wander the streets in the devastated city, adding pressure to ramp up the foreign adoptions. To increase the problem, plenty of parents like Adrienne believe sending their children abroad from one of poorest countries in the world is the best gift they can give.

Meanwhile, child traffickers have begun to operate in Port-au-Prince. They are plucking children from the streets or smuggling them out of orphanages, before offering them to foreigners for as little as £65.

Haitian social workers and international aid organisations fear that many will be sold into paedophile rings in Europe and America, or be traded into domestic slavery in the third world.

The result of all this is that Haiti is haemorrhaging its young. It is a sad postscript to the tragedy, in which 200,000 people were killed as houses, supermarkets and entire shopping streets crumbled to the ground.

Thousands upon thousands of those made homeless are still living in tented towns in the city, including one in the garden of the presidential palace.

Yet despite the new vulnerability of these children, Heather Paul, the international head of the charity SOS Children's Villages, which runs the refuge now caring for Benatide, says foreign adoptions should be only a last resort when 'every effort has been made to reunite a child with relatives or provide suitable care in Haiti'.

She added: 'Sometimes Americans think that children are better off in a middle-class environment than being with their own family because they are impoverished. I don't believe that. Children love their own families.'

That is certainly the case with Benatide. When I met her at the refuge, she whispered to me: 'I want to go home. Please tell them to come and get me.' After all, this family has been through a lot together.

When the earthquake struck, they ran in horror from their house and scrambled up the steep path to the main road that leads to Port-au-Prince. There, they watched as buildings all over Calebasse began to crumble.

Seven of the 33 children taken by the missionaries. Authorities
believe none of the children were in fact orphans

Only later, when it had got dark, did the Poulime family dare walk back down to see the damage. The kitchen and the bedrooms had all disappeared. A crack six inches wide snaked down the wall at the front. The tin roof had lifted off and only one room was left intact.

However, Benatide's family got on with their lives. That was until ten days later when the U.S. Baptists arrived at Calebasse and began knocking on doors. They handed out flyers saying they wanted to 'help children who have lost their mother and father in the earthquake or have no one to love and care for them'.

The flyers said, inaccurately, that the group had the Haitian government's permission to take 100 children abroad to the Dominican Republic, which shares a border with Haiti.

They said they had an orphanage in a former seaside hotel where the children would have a school, football pitch and even a swimming pool.

Laura Silsby, who set up a U.S. charity called New Life Children's Refuge to help Haitian children the instant the disaster struck, has said from her prison cell in Haiti that adoption was not in her mind when she trawled the earthquake zone for children.

She says she intended to help 'only those children that needed us most, that had lost either both their mother and father, or had lost one of their parents and the other had abandoned them'.

But, revealingly, the mission statement of her New Life organisation specifically says its purpose was to get Haitian children for adoption in the U.S.. Some parents of the 33 children were told that living in the Dominican Republic would be a first step towards their offspring going to new families in America.

Furthermore, far from being orphans, the Mail has been told that none of the 33 children are parentless or abandoned. All of them have a mother or father - often both, including Benatide, whose farmer father is working elsewhere in Haiti, but returns home to visit the family.

Whatever the Baptist group's exact motives, one of their persuasive flyers ended up with Adrienne Poulime.

'It made me want the best for the children. Alain and Carline were too old to go - that meant it had to be Benatide. We talked about it in the family for about a week. Then I told the Baptists I wanted her name put on their list. I explained it to Benatide and she was very excited.'

So on the Thursday before last, she walked to the waiting bus with her daughter. Benatide had only the clothes she was wearing. Her seven-year-old cousin Alantina was also on the bus. With her hand in her pocket, Benatide held on to a piece of paper on which her brother Alain had written his mobile phone number.

In front of Benatide on the bus were the daughters of Lely Laurentus - Soraya, four, and Leila, five, who had grown up in Calebasse, too.

The earthquake had left the family homeless, and Lely thought this was a chance to give them a new start. He admits the two girls were too young to understand what was happening.

But, he says, solemnly: 'I didn't want them to suffer anymore. I didn't pack any of their things, not even their teddy bears. The American woman said she had enough clothes, toys and snacks for the children. I trusted her because she said they were going to a better place. My last words to my children were: "Please remember me."'

As the bus moved away, one little girl, ten-year-old Loundiny Jovan, was near to tears. She called out to her mother Melanie through the window: 'Bye-bye and please pray for me.' Then they were gone.

It was 24 hours later, the Friday before last, that the Poulime family heard on the radio that a busload of Haitian children had been stopped at the border. It turned out the Baptists had no documentation for the children and had breached an order that children going overseas for adoption must receive written permission from the prime minister.

Next morning, Benatide rang her brother Alain. She said three police vans had picked the children up from the border and driven them back to Port-au-Prince, where she had spent the night at the SOS village.

This week Georg Willeit, an SOS worker who welcomed the children there, said they are emotionally traumatised from their experience.

One boy has told staff he will never go back to his mother because she gave him away. Another girl talks repeatedly about the bus journey, before bursting into tears. As for Benatide, a lot of the time she stays silent and deep in thought. Every day, she begs to make a call to her brother.

How long it will take her and the others to recover, no one knows. As Mr Willeit says: 'The children must be made to feel safe again. They need a routine with care and attention given to them. They know they were given away by their mothers or fathers.

'They will not forget that for a long time, if ever. They should grow up in Haiti knowing their own roots and customs with family members around. They ought not be sent to live in another country.'

Of course, not everyone would agree with him. The arrested Baptists refuse to admit they did anything wrong.

Laura Silsby, who runs a personal shopping company and has a chequered financial history, is scheduled to appear in front of a U.S. judge in an unfair dismissal case involving one of her former employees this week. But she will not make that date, as she remains locked up in a squalid, mosquito-ridden jail on the island until the case against her, and her fellow Baptists, is heard.

The situation is viewed so seriously by the Americans that former President Bill Clinton, now a United Nations special envoy, has arrived in Haiti to negotiate a solution.

Most of the Baptists charged worship at the Central Valley Church in Meridian, Idaho, where the pastor Clint Henry says their motives were 'upright and pure'.

Many religious organisations are at work in Haiti, including many fundamental Christian ministries such as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints, run by the Mormons, who have paid for flights to airlift children from Port-au-Prince to America.

Roman Catholic churches have also taken Haitian children - some toddlers in nappies - to the U.S..

Up to 300,000 children are believed to have been orphaned by the Haiti quake

They are feeding an insatiable demand for children from white American families with a conservative Christian outlook. The U.S. churches operate hand-in-hand with hundreds of Haiti orphanages, many of which are run by like-minded pastors. The deal is simple: the orphanages provide the children, and the churches provide the parents.

The result is that the vast majority of Haitian children are going to families in Bible-belt states. The phenomenon has led to extraordinary scenes at Miami airport, which is where many first meet the children.

The adoptive parents start screaming, then hugging, kissing and crying over their new children, who often look bewildered as they are handed Mickey Mouse dolls and bags of popcorn as welcome presents.

With so many children involved, things go wrong. After one airlift to Miami, five children were traumatised when no parents turned up to meet them. And in another case, a threeyearold boy was left in tears after his adoptive parents changed their mind at the last minute about having him. He is now in the care of American social services.

Many think the real purpose of the fundamentalists' involvement in the huge-scale adoptions is religious conversion. Some families have taken four or five children.

Certainly, the literature of His House, a large Christian orphanage in Miami which is coordinating adoptions, says it aims to turn children into 'Christ-like beings'.

Others question whether black children from a Caribbean island should be adopted at all by white parents who know little about the children's culture and cannot speak their languages, French and Creole.

Many predict there will be enormous difficulties within the 'ready-made' families as time goes on, even though many Haitian children have the same religious background.

But Iris Marrero, the director of His House in Miami, which at 600 miles away is the closest point in America to Haiti, insists there is nothing sinister about the adoptions.

Staff at His House have matched 150 Haitian children to American families in the past two weeks. One night, a plane arrived from Port-au-Prince at midnight in Miami and all 90 children on board had been formally adopted by 5.30am. 'I pray that their families will love them for ever,' Mrs Marrero told the Mail earnestly.

As for Benatide, her future is yet to be decided. With the other 32 children, she is now in limbo at the SOS refuge.

SOS Children's Village www.soschildren.org

Adrienne is unrepentant about giving her daughter away. When I ask her if she would do it again, she answers quickly in a quiet voice: 'Yes, of course, and so would you if your child lived in Haiti.'

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Conyers, Members of Congress Urge Rice to Organize Support for UN Cholera Initiative

(WASHINGTON) – Today, Representative John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) and four other Members of Congress sent a letter to the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice, encouraging her to urge the United Nations to ensure full funding and speedy implementation of a new initiative aimed at eliminating cholera in Haiti. 

This letter follows a letter sent last July, in which Conyers and 103 other Members of Congress encouraged Rice to urge the United Nations to take a leading role in addressing the cholera crisis.

 The Members specifically argued that every effort should be made to ensure the cholera initiative is funded adequately and implemented without delay:  

“We are, however, concerned that nearly two months after Secretary General Ban Ki-moon announced his initiative to support the plan, only 10 percent of the funding has been secured and only one percent of this funding has been pledged from the United Nations itself. The United Nations has a special responsibility to ensure this plan is funded and we need your assistance in ensuring that cholera is indeed eliminated from the island of Hispaniola." 

The Members also ask that every effort be made to ensure that assistance is prioritized for vulnerable Haitians and that“local communities and organizations be closely consulted during the implementation process.”   

The letter was also signed by Representatives Yvette Clarke (D-NY), Barbara Lee (D-CA), Maxine Waters (D-CA), and Frederica Wilson (D-FL).

You can read the full text of the letter below.

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February 19, 2013

The Honorable Susan Rice

United States Ambassador to the United Nations

Permanent Mission to the United Nations

799 UN Plaza

New York, NY 10017-3505

Dear Secretary Rice:

We are writing to thank you for your efforts to organize a robust international response to the cholera crisis in Haiti and to urge you to ensure that the United Nations continues to take a leading role in addressing the crisis by funding and implementing the cholera elimination initiative organized by the UN Secretary General without delay.   We believe that it is paramount that the plan prioritize assistance for the most vulnerable Haitians, help the Haitian government attain the capacity necessary to maintain the plan’s infrastructure sustainably, and that local communities and organizations be closely consulted during the implementation process.

As you know, the cholera epidemic continues to pose a major challenge to Haiti’s health authorities, and continues to kill Haitians at an alarming rate.  While the significant actions of Haitian authorities and international actors – including $95 million in emergency support by the United States – have helped reduce fatality rates significantly, cholera was still responsible for the deaths of 900 people last year.  This past December, 193 Haitians died of cholera, a 190 percent increase in fatalities compared to December of 2011.

In November of last year, the media reported that a plan to eliminate cholera in Haiti was being developed jointly by the Haitian government and international and U.S. agencies.  The plan apparently places major emphasis on helping Haiti acquire adequate water and sanitation infrastructure, widely considered to be the only effective means of ridding Haiti of cholera. News reports suggested that the plan was on the verge of being launched, but many weeks later there is still no sign that implementation of the plan has begun. 

Although the United Nations has failed to take formal responsibility for introducing cholera to Haiti, it is clear that Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has taken important steps.  We thank you for the key role you and your staff played in encouraging the Secretary General’s office to adopt an initial set of significant measures. 

We are, however, concerned that nearly two months after Secretary General Ban Ki-moon announced his initiative to support the plan, only 10 percent of the funding has been secured and only one percent of this funding has been pledged from the United Nations itself. The United Nations has a special responsibility to ensure this plan is funded and we need your assistance in ensuring that cholera is indeed eliminated from the island of Hispaniola.

As you know, the cholera situation in Haiti has generated worldwide concern.  Over 28,000 people from around the world have signed an on-line petition urging the Secretary General “to lead international efforts to mobilize the funds and technical resources required to achieve this urgent task in the shortest time frame possible.”  In order for the United Nations to maintain its credibility around the world, it must get this right. This means a fully funded initiative that focuses on marginalized populations and is implemented with the input of local communities and organizations.

All too often important development projects for Haiti are launched with much fanfare, but then are never executed or are quickly abandoned. This cannot be allowed to happen with the current plans to assist Haiti in eliminating cholera.  Without effective follow-through on these plans, Haiti will be burdened with this deadly epidemic for the foreseeable future. If these plans are effectively executed, however, the payback is enormous: not only will the country be finally able to control cholera and other water-borne diseases; it will also finally achieve the basic standards of health and hygiene enjoyed by nearly every other nation of this hemisphere. 

We therefore respectfully reiterate our request for you to continue urging the Secretary General and other key U.N. actors to take action to rid Haiti of cholera as quickly as possible.  We also request that you provide Congress with regular updates on the status of the plan to eliminate cholera, and on the process by which the U.N. is ensuring that the plan will be adequately funded.

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Will The Lumos Foundation Push Into Global Child Welfare Include The U.S.?

The recent illumination of the Clinton Global Initiative and its child welfare programs in Haiti and

The Lumos Foundation

 Africa, along with the Foundation's move to restructure, has piqued my interest into a foreshadowing of nonprofit oversight.

The U.S. House Judiciary Committee is also demonstrating an interest in addressing the issues surrounding child welfare, but if it is willing to deal with the U.S. child welfare system, is another story which has yet to be written.

If the Lumos Foundation can take on such a daunting task as to end the orphanage system in Haiti, where there are plans to close at least 150 of such institutions, then, one can only hope that this type of action can be imported to address similar ills right here in our own backyard in how we deal with children in poverty.

The 'similar ills' of which I refer to in the U.S. child welfare system deal with revenue maximization schemes, lack of oversight, devoid of civil rights, codification of poverty as abuse and neglect, and the omission of reunification, termination and reinstatement of parental rights.

Think about it:  If foster care wouldn't be good enough for your child or a child you love, why would it be good enough for a child in the U.S.?

Stay tuned.

Ten Years Later: Lumos Foundation’s Push into Global Child Welfare

Think about it: If an orphanage wouldn’t be good enough for your child or a child you love, why would it be good enough for a child in Haiti, or anywhere else in the world?

This question is at the center of the work Lumos, the nonprofit started by J.K. Rowling in 2005, has been doing for over a decade. Named for the light-giving spell featured in the Harry Potter books, Lumos works to redirect the care of disadvantaged children away from orphanages and toward more supportive settings with their families or in the community.

Through advocacy, coalition-building and on-the-ground implementation of changes to the care provided for children without families, Lumos is helping to establish new approaches to global child welfare. These new approaches include reunifying institutionalized children with their extended families and providing more support to those families to remain together, and creating healthier community-based placements for children whose parents are truly not able to care for them.

As we reported last September, five months after Lumos officially opened its U.S. office in April 2015, the goal is to end the institutionalization of children by 2050. It’s an ambitious goal, and one the organization has already made steady progress on, moving forward with strategies on several fronts. Recently I caught up with Georgette Mulheir, CEO of Lumos, to find out how progress is going.

In Haiti this work is particularly needed; poverty is high, and Mulheir said others warned them work there would be very difficult.

“People told us not to go to Haiti,” said Mulheir, which gave Lumos all the more reason to invest its time, resources and expertise there. Over 32,000 children reside in orphanages in Haiti; so far, Lumos has begun work with two institutions to move children into families and communities.

“We’ve got lots of really well-intentioned but misguided people who are putting money into orphanages in Haiti and what we want them to do is not to stop supporting Haiti, but to look at whether they can do something different with their financial and human resources,” Mulheir said.

“Could they be helping to do economic strengthening with those families so those families can keep their children?”

Lumos has been meeting with the government of Haiti, which has now established a national action plan to get children out of institutions and to establish community-based services.

Mulheir emphasized the importance of alliances in ending the practice of putting kids into orphanages. She sits on the governing council of the Global Alliance for Children (GAC), an organization that mobilizes targeted investments in childhood as a core component of a nation’s social and economic progress. GAC has been a major player in bringing together the resources and helping to collaborate on this work, she said.

About to visit Haiti, Mulheir expects to meet with a number of individuals and groups, including staff from the Clinton Foundation, to talk about ways in which their strategic agendas may intersect.

The Clinton Foundation began work in the island nations several years ago, and is now making a bigger push with its climate and women’s empowerment agenda there by launching the Women in Island Leadership Network. The network brings together young leaders in the STEM fields in the island nations, and helps them mentor and build skills to rise in leadership roles.

Mulheir has been impressed with the warm reception Lumos has received from U.S. nonprofits and foundations. She pointed to the Annie E. Casey Foundation in particular, which Lumos has met with to discuss strategy and learn from its “groundbreaking strategies for how to help local government officials change their policies.”

Another significant piece of Lumos’ strategy in coming to the United States involves forming alliances with religious organizations that support orphanages, and helping them to fund alternatives. Much of the funding of orphanages in the Caribbean comes from the evangelical Christian church community, and so Lumos is working with faith-based organizations–including the Faith to Action Initiative and the Christian Alliance for Orphans–and is also having discussions with Catholic Relief Services. Mulheir said one of the goals is to “get very senior members of different churches around the world to highlight this issue and make sure their congregations are aware that the best of intentions in orphanages are not going to result in the best of outcomes.”

“A century ago, the U.S. was challenging the orphanage model,” Mulheir said. “Western Europe got rid of this system decades ago,” she added. “But now we’re exporting this outdated model to other countries.”

Another key strategy that Lumos is using to end orphanages involves getting the European Union to change its funding regulations. The European Union had been spending money on renovating institutions that served as orphanages when Lumos began advocacy about six years ago to get them to end that work and invest in better options for kids.

“Now it’s a very high priority for the EU,” Mulheir said. As of January 2015, the EU is prohibited from spending EU money on the renovation of institutions, and instead the EU is investing in community-based care.

Also high on the strategic agenda for Lumos are the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals, which, despite their promise of leaving no one behind, do not include children in institutional care, or children without families. Mulheir said Lumos is continuing to advocate for data collection on children without families, since without any effort to count these children, there is no way to measure their progress on health and education or other outcomes.

Within the decade since its founding, Lumos has helped guide a historic shift away from orphanages and toward healthier living situations for vulnerable children. As the organization connects more with philanthropy’s power brokers in the U.S., and expands into Latin and Caribbean regions, it continues to do systems-level advocacy and cross-sector collaborative work to change the way children without families are treated, and raise the bar for providing quality care for the most vulnerable children across the globe.

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