Director’s Report: A Call for Support – Understanding Haiti’s Current Challenges

Director’s Report: We received a newsletter from the Haiti no Kai, a Japanese NGO that supports the KFP in the Republic of Haiti, to which two of our graduates belong.Although rarely reported in Japan, security in Haiti has deteriorated drastically since the assassination of the president three years ago, and earlier this year the country was said to be in unprecedented turmoil in all aspects: social, political, economic, and security.Especially in the capital, armed gangs controlled 80% of the capital and crime was rampant, which turned the city a lawless … Read more