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 area. However, it is said that security has improved slightly since the beginning of June.
In the words of Eiko Nakano, a representative of Haiti no Kai, “Even if it takes time, Haitians themselves must correct this wrongness of the Haitian society and open the way for the future. What we can do with the Haitian people is only to support them by ‘protecting today’s life through agriculture and nurturing tomorrow’s Haiti through education.’ ”