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HAITI FACTS Fast Facts About Haiti and It's People HAITI FACTS Fast facts about Haiti and it's people Official Name: Republic of Haiti or, the mountains’. The coastline is flat. It is dotted in Haitian Creole, ‘Ayiti’ in coconut palms and the ocean surrounding it is rich in sea life. Haiti suffers from severe Capital: Port-au-Prince deforestation. As the population has grown, Population: Approx: 9 million forests have been cut down for farmland and to Area: 27,750 square kilometres or, provide firewood to burn or turn into charcoal. 10,714 square miles Religion Official Languages: Creole and French Haiti is mainly a Christian country, with strong Currencies: The Gourde, US dollar and the roots in Roman Catholicism. Around 80 percent fictional Haitian dollar of Haitians are Catholic and 16 percent are Protestant. A large number of Haitians, mainly GDP Per Capita: US$1,200 Roman Catholics, believe in and practice some People living on less than $2 a day: 72.1% forms of the Voodoo religion which was brought to the Island by African slaves, and this co-exists Percentage of Literate People: 53% with their other religious practices. No access to clean water: 3.8 million Government and Economy Location Haiti is a Republic with a President elected every Haiti is located in the Carribean, south of the five years. Haiti is ranked as the poorest country island of Cuba, and occupies the western third in the Americas because of decades of violence of the Island of Hispanola. It is bound by the and instability. Eighty percent of its people live Dominican Republic to the east, the Atlantic in poverty. There is a huge income gap between Ocean to the north and the Caribbean Sea to the poorer Creole-speaking Black majority and the south. wealthier French-speaking Mullatos (mixed African and European descent). Climate Production Haiti’s climate is tropical. Trade winds produce warm temperatures for most of the year and Coffee, mangoes, sugarcane, rice, corn, sorghum, plenty of hot sunshine and rain. In summer wood. temperatures can average around 34 degrees Food celcius. The Hurricane season is from June to November and this can bring heavy rain and Local root vegetables - cassava, yams, potatoes. flooding and winds up to 300 kilometres an Fruit - mangoes, bananas, papaya, guavas, custard hour. apple, breadfruit. Rice, salted fish, and spicy meat dishes. Land Music Haiti is mountainous. Some mountain peaks reach more than 2,400m. The native Indian Traditional Rara folk music and modern popular name for the country is Hayti meaning - ‘ land of styles including Mizik Rasin, Compas, Zouk and Haitian Rap. www.purplecakeday.org Sport Brief Political History Football is the most popular sport in Haiti. 1492 – Christopher Columbus landed on the Basketball is growing in popularity. Other sports island of Hispaniola. Haiti became a Spanish include street tennis, cricket, basketball, soccer, colony. Most native peoples were killed. athletics. 1600s – The French took over Haiti. In 1697 Education System in Haiti it became an official French colony. Thousands The education system of Haiti is based on the of people were brought from Africa to work in French system. Haiti has approximately 15,200 the colony on plantations growing sugarcane, primary schools, of which 90 percent are non- cotton and coffee. public and managed by communities, religious 1789 – Uprising of Haitian slaves against the organisations or NGOs. The enrolment rate for French colonists. primary school is only 67 percent of all eligible- age children, and fewer than 30 percent reach 6th 1804 – First Caribbean state and black nation to grade (Year 6). Secondary schools enrol only 20 achieve independence. percent of eligible-age children. Higher education is under the responsibility of the Ministry of 1957 – Haiti ruled by dictator Francois ‘Papa Education and is provided by universities and Doc’ Duvalier. Many people who didn’t agree other public and private institutions. To support with the government were killed. Many Haitians the education needs many international charity left the country. organisations operating in Haiti are building 1971 – Jean-Claude (Baby Doc) Duvalier gained schools for children and providing necessary control after the death of his father. school supplies. 1986 – Duvalier’s government ousted. 1990 – Father Jean Bertrand Aristide elected president. 1991 – Military forces ousted Aristide; refugees fled to the United States. 1993 – The United Nations imposed an oil, arms, and financial embargo on Haiti. 1996 – Rene Preval sworn in as president with a small U.N. peacekeeping force on hand. 2010 – Magnitude 7.1 earthquake hit Haiti, with immense loss of life and damage to the infrastructure. The Presidential Palace, an Information referenced from online sources including the iconic feature, was destroyed along with many CIA World Factbook/Haiti and Wikipedia. government buildings. A large number of international organisations arrived in Haiti to support the post-earthquake reconstruction. www.purplecakeday.org HAITIAN FLAG The National Flag of Haiti The flag of Haiti consists of two equal sized Haiti declared independence from France as horizontal stripes; the top one is blue and the long ago as January 1, 1804 but the current bottom one is red. In the centre of the Haitian Haitian flag was not adopted until February 26, flag is the country's coat of arms, placed on a 1986. The original Haitian flag was blue and white square. The coat of arms consists of a red vertical stripes, which was an adaptation of Palmette surrounded by the liberty cap, and the French national flag. The white stripe of the under the palms a trophy with the inscription: French flag was omitted because it represented 'L'Union Fait la Force', which means 'in union white colonial oppression. The vertical stripes there is strength'. were changed to horizontal stripes in the mid- 19th century. The Haitian flag is an adaptation of the French national flag. The blue stripe represents the union of black Haitians, and mulatto Haitians are represented by the red stripe. www.purplecakeday.org LANGUAGES IN HAITI How do we say "Hello"? The main languages used in Haiti are Creole and French. Creole, which is a mixture of different languages, had been spoken on the island many years ago. It was created by the slaves who came to work in Haiti from Africa. They mixed up words from many languages to create what we know today as Creole. Because Haiti had been a French colony until the early 1990s French was the only official language. This meant that all business, private and government, had to be conducted in French Haitian Proverbs but since many people do not speak French, Creole was also made an official language. In Haiti people use proverbs a lot in conversation. You need to know what they mean to understand Some Creole words: them. Here are some that are used. Try to imagine what they might mean. Comment ou relé? What’s your name? Deye mone gin mone Mouin relé… My name is… Behind mountains are mountains Bonjou Hello! (Explanation: when you solve one problem another problem presents itself. Bon soi Good night! Sak pasé? What’s up? (How are you?) Cabrit de met mouri nan soleil A goat with two owners dies in the sun Nap boulé I am fine (Explanation: if you have a task and you have Se yon bel jounin It is a beautiful day two people responsible for it, it does not get done) Na oue pi ta See you later Demi cuit sové, consommé pedi Kenbe La Hang in there, don’t give up Half-cooked can be eaten but if you wait for it to simmer you might lose it (Explanation: make the most of the situation! In Haiti food is cooked over an open-air stove which the peasants use until the legs of the stove collapse. This often happens when the food is simmering and almost ready. Hence the saying, because, if the food is eaten before it simmers, the legs don’t break and the meal is saved.) www.purplecakeday.org HAITI IN 2010 Disaster and Hope The Earthquake Hurricane Tomas On 12 January 2010, Haiti was hit by a On 5 November 2010 a severe tropical storm, catastrophic earthquake. The quake destroyed Hurricane Tomas, hit Haiti. A hurricane is houses, schools, hospitals, shops and government characterized by heavy rain and strong winds. buildings. An estimated 230,000 people died, Before Hurricane Tomas hit, the humanitarian 300,000 were injured and more than 1 million community had feared the worst for Haiti's people lost their homes. Many children were estimated 1.3 million displaced survivors of orphaned because their parents died as a the January earthquake. Heavy rain from the result of the earthquake. More children were hurricane turned the streets of the town of separated from their families in the chaos that Leogane, in western Haiti, into fast-flowing followed. Many children slept in the streets rivers, flooding the makeshift homes of those without shelter, food or water. One year on, the already hampered by the earthquake. Cold, damp dramatic destruction caused by the earthquake conditions in the wake of Hurricane Tomas have is still causing suffering for millions of people left thousands of children at risk of potentially living in the country. Everyday life continues to fatal diseases as children were exposed to malaria, be unsettled for many of those who survived, diarrhoea, dengue fever and pneumonia, as well with more than 1 million people (approximately as skin infections. Many children were already 380,000 of whom are children) living in crowded weak from living in difficult camp conditions camps. or because they were malnourished - and easily treatable diseases like malaria and pneumonia Cholera could be fatal.
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