The prognosis of hope for an economic prosperity lies in the hand of the Farmers from the provincial Countryside of Haiti. There is this false notion in Haiti that the land can no longer be harvested as it used to in the past. That is a misconception created in the minds of lazy farmers who do not wish to stick to what they know best wanting to venture out into the main capitals for supposedly self modernization due to lack of respect that city folks transcend to the farmers thus causing the poor farmers to start losing confidence since they are looked down upon by those main capital city folks who often and presumably call them uneducated, illiterate.

Haiti's most important resource and probably her only resource has always been the farming of the land. Farmers used to be hard at work trying to scratch an existence from the soil. However understandably, much is needed to be done on the Government's part for agricultural improvement; but the Government wants to act like economical problems are generally intractable. Although most farmers have abandon their farming posts in the countryside of the Nation, there is the feel that had incentives were given to those farmers they would actually remain at their farming posts. An embarking of a massive Governmental project to provide basic tools to those farmers willing to work the lands is a most either by the help of the 10Th Department of Diaspora abroad to start investing in buying tools from even local Home Depots, Wall-Marts and so forth would help greatly. Already there is a lacking collaboration of local provincial farmers to come together as a community, but what is worse is that the very few willing to work are incapacitated without any help of Governmental support that it has resulted in the case of local priests taking the responsibility of acting official like governance by trying to do the best they could asking for help from US church groups and missionaries.

During my already third visit this year to my mother's homeland of Puerto Plata in the Dominican Republic I took with me a couple of local Haitians and asked them to bring me to the Sugar cane plantation fields that are being operated by hard working laborers of Haitians giving their hard sweats for a couple of pesos to survive and their living conditions there were no better than they would have been in Haiti, yet or nevertheless they were working the land when they could have been doing the same in their very own home country of Haiti. It is all in the misleading conceptions that most Haitians have into thinking the grass is always greener on the other side. Given the small amount they are being paid in the Dominican Republic, those Haitians would have been better off staying in Haiti and work had the Haitian Government been more pro-active and encouraging its Citizens with a little bit of help. In Haiti -- amidst all the worse of negative press coverage in the Media, the people in the northern countryside of the country are very proud people and proud of their cultural heritage of people.

From the Dominican Republic I took a drive across heading into Haiti where I went to Etang Saumatre which is a wondrous amazing place many would not have thought existed in Haiti. There, early in the morning you see women passing by well balancing large straw wooden baskets full of cultivated produce over their heads and some women were on donkeys singing the nicest tunes known to nature heading towards their local market place for their daily workday. At Etang Saumatre where existed the largest lake in Haiti that is filled with all kinds of marine life. The mountain there was so picturesque with a lush forested hills, yet with no obvious presence of any Government. Life over there has an organization of its own. What I saw there was especially nothing the outside world away from Haiti would ever know. This area was in far better condition than I had imagined. People seem to have their own houses, animal barns, neighbors they can count on, and a well respected family structure. One would summarized that life must be great there since I did not see any homelessness or poor health conditions in rural areas there and there is a vast amount of unoccupied lands there.

In addition, education received strong emphasis there, as wherever we went at certain times of day there were large crowds of children in matching uniforms walking to school. It was kind of hard to actually come to accept many statistics given abroad on how illiterate they keep claiming all of of Haiti is. Surely over there at Etang Saumatre that was not the case at all. Some of the kids there even knew three languages. Yes, kids from 6 to 13 years over there were speaking fluent Spanish, french and believe it or not; even better English than most kids living most of their lives in the urban streets of the United States. Those kids understood my every English words I had to speak to them. Perhaps it was partly because many foreign missionaries visit there often.

I am not part of any church organizations, however, the locals seemed to have thought I was. They were shocked when I told them I was there only on vacation. I fit right in and did not experience any signs of discomfort given that I speak Creole and understand quite a great amount of French and Spanish. I left Haiti young and my goal is to return there to take my filming education to showcase the greater side of my home country to the rest of the world.

I must mention, the locals there were very savvy about the politic of the Country. Do not for a second think they do not know what is going on. I took the liberty of engaging into a little political debate or discussion with them where they strongly suggested great ideas as to how the Government can help them which they have expressed candidly that the solution for the country's future relies of working the lands and engaging into massive plantation of trees, growing grass to combat the deterioration of the landscape of the hills and mountains if only the government would step in they claim. It was remarkable how these locals had great ideas about solutions for the problem of erosion, natural disaster such as floods, droughts, and so much more. Agriculture continued to be the mainstay of the economy in the late 1980s. It has employed approximately 66 percent of the labor force and accounted for about 35 percent of Haiti's monetary revenue thus the economy as to include it had made for 24 percent of exports in 1987. The role of agriculture in the economy has declined severely since then. At one point, I was told that such a farming sector employed 80 percent of the labor force, represented 50 percent of the economy in 1990 and contributed 90 percent of exports. Now given Haiti's condition, it is true that many factors have contributed to the decline of the economy drastically . Some of the major ones included the continuing fragmentation of landholdings, low levels of agricultural technology, migration out of provincial rural countryside areas, insecure land tenure, a lack of tools and capital investment. The high commodity taxes, the low productivity of undernourished farmers and whom have gotten lazy and hopeless at continuing to work the land... animal and plant diseases, and inadequate infrastructure. Neither the government nor the private sector invested much in the provincial rural ventures.

Evidently, it was told in fact that in 1995 only 5 percent of the national budget went to the Ministry of Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Rural Development (Ministère de l'Agriculture, des Resources Naturelles et du Développement Rural--MARNDR). As Haiti entered the year 2000s, however, the main challenge to agriculture was not economic, but yet is rather ecological. Extreme deforestation, soil erosion, droughts, flooding, and the ravages of other natural disasters had all led to a critical environmental situation.

Haitians abroad has a better chance at helping arouse awareness for the ecological challenges Haiti faces for truly the only solution is to work the land and for the Government to give incentives to farmers and donate tools to local farming committees.

Haiti and its Government need to be specific when asking for foreign aides and not to make their demand so general to the World International bodies that way the Government in Haitian better tackle and address the issues accordingly with their each respective monetary funds provided for each respective cause.

The jobless, hungry and malnourished population in Haiti is growing at such a fast pace that the absolute number in crime, social and political corruption as well as economical instability are still increasing unashamedly. The estimated number of people who are hungry and malnourished and will die this very day today in Haiti is around 30 thousand. Alarming enough, one quarter of them are children below 5 years of age.

Unsurprisingly, so is the fact that the general entertainment based fans for Haitian artists, stars in all the known domains of arts are growing so rapidly that the issues of Haiti have never imposed any threats to the growth of the Haitian Entertainment Industry. Yet, it has come of a greater shocking matter that the Haitian Entertainment Industry in Haiti or abroad have not used that field or medium to reach out and make any differences like it used to, knowingly given how many Haitian people around the world know just how powerful this forum can be.

Nowadays, it seems that many Haitian Artists go comfortably to bed and quickly fast asleep with ease at night after their big performances and monetary gains without ever even batting an eye of remorse of the current situation and condition in Haiti. Not anymore anyways. Although many of them have claimed their love and pride or respect they have for Haiti but has yet even imagine the possibility to help out. And for those Artists abroad, they too has yet even envision themselves to someday retire in Haiti like the old saying of this famous song "Ayiti Cheri, Se Nan Pye-w Pou-m Vinn Mouri." http://www.haitiantreasures.com/Lakou_Lakay3.swf Who among this new generation of Haitian Artists actually remember those great songs by many great talented artists and pioneers who used to motivate, inspire and stand for something in the cause and struggle of Haiti? Yet again today, another Haitian Artist somewhere around the world whom have been gone out of the Public's Eyes for years woke up this morning and has not made any contemplated attempt and future plan to return back home in Haiti with a sense of contribution to give back to Haiti teaching the new generation of Artists how to care and inspire the people anymore.

Meanwhile somewhere later this weekend, many Haitians Artists, fame, pleasure and thrill seekers will be performing a $30 admission fee performance or event of some kind... Thus a Haitian musician, artist, promoter or manager whom have not ever before contributed any of their performance earning to any of Haiti's causes will once again make plenty money. One could assume or imagine that this same weekend there are many other Haitian Ball Functions and perhaps many other Haitian Paid Events which surely there will be in many major cities like in New York, Boston, Florida and yes even in Haiti... To merely estimate for example, Imagine $30 times 500 people equals to about $15,000 USD then converted into Haitian currency equals to about $570,000 something HTG. Now, picturing those Artists were to collectively start engaging into fundraisers and every so often Pro-Bono performances and donate some of that money toward a specific cause in Haiti. Wow, that would be some kind of relief to now Haiti's plight, one would say... Would it not? Much less to even say, mention, or wonder if even they were to have the decency to start arousing social awareness and promotion for change in Haiti. The spreading of such a social awareness for change to the Haitian youths through their so called nowadays excuses of "music" would without any doubts help greatly. One can not help but to ask one's self and ponder if those so called "Artists" today even know of the influence they have on the mass who listen to their so once again called "music" daily and religiously today. Can you picture the major difference such contribution would make and how drastically it would make a positive impact on the economical and social problems that Haiti is enduring?

Now Imagine if for even one year that those Artists would dedicate one night out of that year by donating that one night of earning to Haiti. Or perhaps by opening up an "Artists For Change In Haiti Fund" bank account that would create scholarships for kids with passion in music, arts and so forth, or donating annually some of that money to various schools around the Country to create band club and hire musical teachers for those kids to learn music. Therefore, many Haitians Artists should really ask themselves this one question. Till this very day, after so many musical successes and performances, what have their Haitian bands ever really given back to Haiti? However, if they have given anything at all back or in return to Haiti, one should say " Well good, good for them and Haiti" because, they have a duty and obligation to Haiti. That is where change starts for Haiti.

So, where does the start for any possible change actually do begins for Haiti, again many might still be asking? So, is there just "a chance" of possible change in Haiti or are there actually just too many possibilities that we have not yet to consider?

The Haitian Diasporas living abroad, the Haitian Artists nor the rich Elites of Haiti have not been pro-active enough in tackling the problems of Haiti. They can make better efforts to work together to approach Haiti's issues and fix some problems. Only they have the means and can change the dynamic of the many challenges Haiti faces economically, socially and politically. There needs to be more promotion for this dialogue in the Haitian media abroad and to those Haitian Communities abroad.

Now is the time Haitian presidents need to engage in more Public Relation talk and direct radio addresses in communicating to the mass population of Haiti reassuring them of what is being done generally in the country. Especially with all those proclaimed funds in aid that are promised to enter the Country once there is a managing Government. Haitian Government officials need to start sending out more direct and constant Communiques to the Haitians living abroad as well in engaging them to partake in the changes Haiti needs. These officials must pay more attention to the criticisms, analysis and concerns as well as the new ideas, suggestions and recommendations that many great Haitians in Haiti and abroad have by holding frequent Broadcasted live Hall meetings periodically and regularly. In other words, the Haitian Government and its officials can do a better job using the Internet media to spread their goals, intentions and weekly or even monthly improvement updates of what is taking place in the Country more often. That will generate a better and greater sense of trust, confident and popular support from the Haitian people in knowing their Government is actually at work working for them. It appears that many Haitians are without a clue what is happening to Haiti, or maybe they do have many clues but feel they are not being included in their Country's politics for change.

Without a good sense of true realization to the facts of the problems of Haiti or with the constant denials of respect for Haiti as a Country itself is what is causing Haiti to lose ground of recognition in the face of the rest of the world which taps right into the confidence, conscience psyche of younger generation of Haitians to come to grow up not to care for Haiti themselves. Beside Wyclef Jean, these Haitian youths are being raised and grow up to not having any exemplary figures as role models in their communities or societies whether in Haiti or abroad. They have no one to amass inspiration or aspiration from or to even look up to as role models. Surely there are many stars living in the United States of America also in many other parts of the world for that matter that are Haitian whom could actually stand for something in helping out in the causes and plights Haiti faces as a nation. Yet all these kids are getting are the negative images, the negative issues and crisis of the Country and they are gaining nothing morally cultural from those nowadays useless politicians, diasporas, elite Haitians and the Haitian media. All these sectors do not give a "Diddilli Squat" about the Nation nor do they share a common love for Country. Thus is why these youngsters are growing up without any proper education about Haiti and without any sense of true love and civic duty for the country.

The re-institution, of a modern and improved HAITIAN ARMED FORCES is a major must for Haiti and could serve as a form of hope for Haiti's future generations since those given and named sectors are not fulfilling their obligation. Thus this new Army would serve as an engineering corp kind of Army where kids could start taking part in the construction, development of their country. Assuringly make no mistakes about it, without any institution of role model for future youths to look up to, they too will grow up not caring about the nation and will always see their pockets before the need of the Country just like those current ungrateful politicians and many unpatriotic Haitians are doing today.

Change is to add to, to make different in some way the current aspects of a certain situation or tradition by severely cramping or campaigning for any encouragement to turn around the outcome or aim for a certain satisfying result of a given present circumstance.

So in retrospect, change is random and naturally lacking any direct determinism or teleology. Change can either be instant, gradual or both given its process of modification and drastic complexity. However, change requires participation and adaptation of organization and proper planing given the mindsets, beliefs and most of all dramatic action. Change means doing something different; something totally different.

Change has two impulses, one of which comes from the external environment. They are things that happen over which we have no control. The other impulses are those changes chosen internally, aimed at keeping the organization or self in tune with the present and sensitive to possible future events. Thus in Haiti's case most people should ask. Change, where does it really begins? Or do you all keep raising expectations for change that are external before the internal and do you all know the differences between any of the two to know which one is require of yourselves? All in all, change begings for Haiti when as Haitians and individuals they set values to want to make a difference and willing to morally fight for it by supporting or backing those values which lies primarily on the Haitian people in Haiti, their Government in conjunction with the Interantional Haitian Diasporas. THE ROLES OF THE DIASPORAS, THE PROMOTION FOR TRANSPARENCY, INCREASE OF ROLE MODELS AND THE INFLUENTIAL IMPACT OF THE RESOURCEFUL MEDIUM OF THE HAITIAN MEDIA AND ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY ARE KEY TO SUCH CHANGE.

The performance of the Haitian Government and other major federal institutions depend upon the way as individual Haitians handle the two sets of of incentives toward the greater common goal, and by forward movements of self ingenuity and innovation through patience and disciplines for a greater outcome or end result beyond themselves and their time which is why history alone is one of the tool and guide often used to document, convey and direct change.

To ask or invoke change for Haiti, the Haitian people must know originally the purpose and reason for such a change. Thus means, they all must actually start with what is facing them in each of their own mirrors. This changes should not only be just for themselves personally and individually to be able to live and see the end success of that change, but so that other future generations can.

They must truly deeply ask of themselves for this change as well as understand comprehensibly each and their own obligation to Haiti, to their children and to the future of Haiti.