Featuring Pat-Riot and Jere. Beginning of my own charity called The Lost & Forgotten foundation. Coming Soon cause they can't wait anymore! MILOT, Haiti - When Ron Daniels invited me to join his recent Haiti Support Project�s pilgrimage to the cities of Milot, Cap-Haitien and Port-au-Prince, I had mixed feelings. I have traveled around the world, but my trips to the Pyramids in Egypt and the Door of No Return on Goree Island in Senegal were the most memorable�and emotional. I had no doubt that a trip to Haiti would also strike a special chord. Since childhood, my stepfather had told me how Toussaint L�Ouverture led a successful slave uprising against the French, paving the way in 1804 for Haiti to become the first independent Black nation in the Western hemisphere. The invitation to visit an island where Africans were dropped off before slave ships continued the journey north was irresistible. We are all Africans, whether living in Haiti or the US But that�s not how we�re labeled. Usually, when public officials or leaders mention Haiti, they invariably describe it as "the poorest nation in the Western hemisphere." With most Haitians earning only $2 a day, I didn�t know how I would react to seeing such massive poverty. After a four-hour flight from New York�s John F. Kennedy Airport aboard American Airlines Flight 837 to Toussaint L�Ouverture International Airport in Port-au-Prince, we transferred to a small puddle-jumper for the 30-minute trip north to Cap-Haitien ...
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