An American evangelical / medical association used to send over missionary teams of doctors and nurses to help out in the village medical clinics. I know a nurse who spent a week in Haiti, this was about thirty years ago.
I worked for a nonprofit that went from being an orphanage and school to sending the children (none of whom were orphans) back to live with their parents with financial support and educational/vocational training and opportunities which was a much better model.
The corruption in that country goes from the top of any government agency or office all the way to the tiny village leaders. Bribes and payoffs are the standard but still no guarantee of protection from violence or theft. No postal system, no sanitation system, limited water purification, limited medical care, and education isn’t free and requires proper uniforms. Opportunities for jobs are pretty much limited. Yet, everyone has a phone. They may be living in a shack constructed of a piece of metal and a leftover bit of wooden pallet but by golly they have a phone.
By the way, they officially blame every country that has ever tried to help them for why they are the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. It couldn’t possibly be because they massacred the slaveholders and landowners and chopped down all the trees and then continued in corruption.
It’s a horrible situation but until they get their own business together, nothing will change and all the billions of aid that previously have been sent, along with all the new aid, won’t change anything permanently.
Peach