Annoureveye Blog: Let's Wake Up

The message is the same:  we should all be involved in the reconstruction efforts in Haiti. What are you doing?

At the COSH conference in Miami two weeks ago, the health system in Haiti was the focus of the discussions.  A great number of ideas emerged; conference participants were highly motivated to work toward a change in their country, yet fully aware of the misuse of our resources.

Please pay close attention to the following text from Fundamentals of Prosperity by Roger Babson, published in 1920:

About three years ago I was travelling in South America. When going from Sao Paulo up across the tablelands to Rio Janeiro, I passed through a little poverty-stricken Indian village. It was some 3,000 feet above sea level; but it was located at the foot of a great water-power. This water-power, I was told, could easily develop from 10,000 to 15,000 horse-power for twelve months of the year. At the base of this waterfall lived these poverty-stricken Indians, plowing their ground with broken sticks, bringing their corn two hundred miles on their backs from the seacoast, and grinding it by hand between two stones. Yet,—with a little faith and vision, they could have developed that water-power, even though in a most primitive manner, and with irrigation, could have made that poverty-stricken valley a veritable Garden of Eden. They simply lacked faith. They lacked vision. They were unwilling, or unable, to look ahead to do something for the next generation and trust to the Lord for the results.

I met the head man of the village and said to him: “Why is it that you don’t do something to develop this power?”

“Why, if we started to develop this thing,” he answered, “by the time we got it done, we would be dead.”

Does that sound familiar?

It is time for us to imagine our country’s renaissance and to start working toward realizing it. What do you say?