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Haiti Mission Trip

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Haiti; country W. Indies on W Hispaniola; a republic, the factual definition of Haiti, but if someone were to ask me my definition of Haiti, I would say Home. Five years ago I fell in love. I was a fourteen-year-old going on my first mission trip ever, but little did I know I would return five times before I turned eighteen. The second we landed in Haiti I knew that it was different. People who had been there before told me how poor the country is, but I just brushed it off and thought, oh yeah, I have been to South Nashville, I have seen poor before. But this place wasn’t just poor; this place was suffering. We landed in Port-au-Prince, and hustled onto the bus full of 30 Americans, and started driving through this overpopulated city and

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