 | Blessings, thanks to everyone for their comments, I am learning so much. especially to learn that people are actually recruited to work on the plantations. I will be going back in September and late December to findhousing for myself. I will provide accommodation for any individual or group who would like to visit the area near Ramon Santana, Antillo #2 |
Comment History | I also believe I can be of better assistance if I were living in the area, so I am praying that as God leads me, I will relocate there by February of next year, God's willing. Please give me your best prayer and for the people of the Bateye. | | Thanks for your comments on the Bateye. One of the hightlight of the trip to me was the fact that my son Askia was with me and sees what it meant by mission. |
 | The Haitians on these plantations are not "cheap labor", they are "free labor" under an indentured servitude "credit system" that they have no option other than to live under after arriving there. They are for the most part tricked into jobs there by "recruiters" that come to Haiti each month, two of which I know are here now. Two Domininican women named Nadine and Begina filling the heads of desperate young Haitians with beartiful dreams and promises of what they'll reap once they arrive in Santo Domingo. |
 | There is an organization called Bateye relief that ministries specificially to this population. |  | Suzie we 'll miss you !! take care of you.. |
Original Post | I recently returned from the Dominican Republic on a mission trip with a group of five people. We spent most of the time serving people in an area called the "Bateye" which is located on a sugar plantation. The people live in Barracks and provide cheap labor to the plantation. Most of these people are Haitians undocumented, unskilled. They are poorer than the people of Haiti itself. NEEDS are Social, Medical, Education, Housing, Employment, it goes on. | |
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