Our team never gives up!
- H.O.P.E Haiti
- Oct 4, 2022
- 2 min read
2022, like the year that preceded it, has been challenging for Haiti. Headlines reveal details about persistent political crises and widespread public violence. Haitians across the capital city of Port au Prince are expressing their frustration with a broken system. There is genuine rage and plenty of it. One does not excuse violence, though there are those who believe we cannot turn our backs on the conditions that create it. Paul Farmer--the late global health revolutionary--asserted in Pathologies of Power that “Human rights violations are not accidents; they are not random in distribution or effect. Rights violations are, rather, symptoms of deeper pathologies of power and are linked intimately to the social conditions that so often determine who will suffer abuse and who will be shielded from harm." At H.O.P.E., we seek to treat people as well as conditions that cause suffering. We will do this work in any conditions.
In the north, people have witnessed and perpetrated far less overt violence, even as they, too, face the realities of living in a nation that has been affected by deep and radical global inequalities. We see massive fuel shortages, insecurity, and opportunism in the north. These direct costs of political turmoil are worsening. Further, shortages, fear, and uncertainty affect the commune of Borgne, making it difficult for the staff (many of whom live in Cap-Haitien and travel to Borgne for the work week) to actualize our programming. Yet, the staff of Alyans Sante Borgne finds a way. They never give up! Our doctors, nurses, social workers, pharmacists, and community leaders persist with surety to walk the last mile in Borgne. Our network is in fact greater than the sum of its parts and we know how to navigate anything from an emergent epidemiological challenge, like cholera, to working in the dark (when the generators run out of fuel). UNICEF reported on September 22 that "lives are being lost as life-saving services come to a standstill." Our system relies on indigenous networks long established and frequently nurtured; we are suffering the same shortages, but we will not shut down. That is our pledge, and we have the team in place to guarantee this promise to the people of Borgne.
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This game got me because it didn’t oversell itself. I found Pixel Flow during lunch, played one level, and immediately understood the core loop without any giant tutorial wall. Clear colored cubes with matching pigs. Manage the conveyor queue. Don’t let leftovers clog your waiting area. Easy. Then a few levels later the boards start layering colors so you have to strip the shell off a shape before the inner colors are even usable. That’s when it turned from a simple tapper into a real “let me reset, I know the route now” puzzle game for me.
A friend handed me their phone and said, “this level is impossible,” and that was my first real look at beads out. It wasn’t impossible. It was just one of those boards where the obvious matches were bait and the actual move was finishing the box that unlocked space.
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