A DAY IN HAITI

Did you know that in Haiti:
• 80% Unemployment
• 85% Illiterate
• 20% Infant mortality rate before age 5
• Adult mortality – in the 50’s
• Population around 8.5 million
• Cite Soleil population 400,000+
• Haiti is considered the 3rd hungriest country in the world (after Somalia and Afghanistan)
• 80% of the people live on less than $2 per day of these 40% live on less than $1 per day
• The island is 90% Roman Catholic

Haiti (pronounced ; French pronounced ; Haitian Creole: Ayiti), officially the Republic of Haiti (République d’Haïti ; Repiblik Ayiti), is a Creole- and French-speaking Caribbean country. Along with the Dominican Republic, it occupies the island of Hispaniola, in the Greater Antillean archipelago. Ayiti (Land on high) was the indigenous Taíno or Amerindian name for the island. The country’s highest point is Pic la Selle, at 2,680 metres (8,793 ft). The total area of Haiti is 27,750 square kilometres (10,714 sq mi) and its capital is Port-au-Prince.

Haiti’s regional, historical, and ethnolinguistic position is unique for several reasons. It was the first independent nation in the Caribbean, the first post-colonial independent black-led nation in the world, and the only nation whose independence was gained as part of a successful slave rebellion. Haiti is the only predominantly Francophone independent nation in the Caribbean, and one of only two in North America (along with Canada) which designate French as an official language; the other French-speaking North American countries are all overseas départements or collectivités of France.

This information and more can be found on Wikipedia, the Free Internet Encyclopedia.