Letters from the Other Side of Haiti: A Long Way Down

The Other Side of Haiti: A Long Way Down by Jillayna Adamson "Like many countries around the world, Haiti is a nation of many faces. It is many-sided, with its own cultural variances and circumstances brewed within its own different worlds. "I wrote from a side of Haiti that I have come to love, understand and deeply respect. They suffer, but they smile. They give and love. I was lucky to get to know some of these smaller places, their beautiful, kind, passionate people. Their happy children. Their ways of life. They are places of so little, harbored with endless limitations. But they showed me a deep sense of contentment, joy, and a welcoming without comparison. Haiti is not all about devastation, it is not all tragedy. There are other sides of Haiti so worthy of knowing and understanding. Sometimes they are tucked between mountainsides or hard to find. But they hold an incredible spirit of beautiful people, stories that you won't see on the national news, individuals and circumstances you'll seldom hear of. I can only hope and work toward the belief that they should not be discarded or forgotten. That instead, they are known and celebrated a a part of what Haiti is." - Jillayna Adamson