Where Would Jesus Go? ----Haiti?

 

 

 

 

I think Jesus would be in Haiti all the time.

This is a report from the World Bank

Haiti occupies the rocky western third of the island of Hispaniola. It is one of the most densely populated and poorest countries in the Western Hemisphere. With a GDP per capita of US$460 (1999), its economic and social indicators compare unfavorably with those of many sub-Sahara African countries and are far lower than the average for Latin America and the Caribbean. Income distribution is highly skewed and poverty is widespread (about 80 percent of the rural population lives below the poverty line). Life expectancy is only 54 years, compared to a regional average of 70. The total fertility rate is 4.8 compared with a regional average of 2.8. Infant mortality is 71 per 1,000 live births, more than twice the regional average. Malnutrition affects about half of children under the age of five, and half of Haitian adults are illiterate. And rising poverty in Haiti is directly linked to long periods of economic stagnation (per capita GNP has stagnated during the past four decades and actually fell at an average annual rate of 5.2 percent between 1985 and 1995)