Through our “New Horizons” civil engineering exercises back in the 1990s, we did our level best to help those people. Mere minutes after ribbon cutting ceremonies at whatever new school, church or municipal building our troops constructed, but locals rushed in and stripped out everything of remote value and sold it on the streets outside.
Haitians don’t give two sh*ts about what constitutes the “future.” They plan only on day-to-day survival.
but locals = the locals