Haiti Happenings

by Kristel Zuppan

Sleepy from the red-eye flight, and sticky from Haiti’s humidity, we sit in the airport and wait for our adventure to begin.  By the majority, we are a group of young, nearly professionals, still in school, visiting a country where the average education level is between 2nd and 3rd grade.  We come from a country where obesity has been called an epidemic and now find ourselves in an area labeled by the UN as the 3rd hungriest country in the world.  As students, many of us consider ourselves “poor” but visiting a country where the average yearly income is between $200-400 we find we are abundantly rich.  There are many differences between our group and those we find ourselves among, but for two weeks we will have at least one thing in common—the Hopitale Adventiste d’ Haiti in Port-au-Prince.

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