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Haiti: In a bid to revive tourism sector, first cruise ship could visit Port-Au-Prince
During his visit to Alabama, Mr. Mayard-Paul with over 100 representatives from dozens of churches in the United States to discuss the potential and the opportunity that the arrival of the cruise ship would represent to his country.
He is also highlighting the benefit that this kind of organization provides to countries such as his own that are looking to change their economy from sustaining to sustainable. Mr. Mayard-Paul said the administration’s plan for Haiti’s development is based on laying out the framework for the country’s economy to take off on its own, as it progresses in its reconstruction efforts after the January 2010 earthquake.
He invoked the proverb that says, “Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Give a man a fishing pole and teach him to fish, and he can feed himself and others for a lifetime.”
That was the difference, Mr. Mayard-Paul said, between the cooperation-based initiative of Cruise with a Cause by Praisefest Ministries and that of other agencies or non-governmental organizations, that “do their work and then they leave.”
“What you are doing is more powerful… It is people to people, and what you bring to Haiti will endure,” he said, addressing the Praisefest Ministries’ leaders and members.
