My dad always told me, "No one can take your education away from you." They can take your money, your trust, your things, but not your education. The Real Haiti is all about education. We read, see and hear things, and we educate our readers. 

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About 5 years ago, I was searching for a gift for my husband Endy online. I came across Zoe Nation Apparel, a site that sells shirts with sayings in Creole and English promoting Haitian pride and culture. I bought a shirt for Endy and I bought myself one. It said "What do you mean I don't look Haitian." I thought it was hilarious and also serious because what does that even mean? People say it all of the time to Haitians. 

Two years ago, I started this blog. I created business cards. I took a picture of me in the shirt for the back of the card as an attention grabber. Everyone who sees it, loves it. I get blank stares and lots of questions like, "Are you French? I see your last name is Pierre-Louis." And I tell them, "No, I am Haitian." Then it starts a conversation.

Last year, I was at a Haitian event that had a fashion show. There were models representing Zoe Nation Apparel. They were modeling the Haitian clothing line. My husband grabbed the owners attention, Isaiah Fleurimond, and showed him my business card. He was in shock. It was so awesome to meet each other. We connected instantly. 

We kept in touch and this year we started selling the shirts on this website. 

This November, 10 kids from Jacmel (ACFFC) got the opportunity to visit South Florida to work on a project. I told Isaiah and he generously offered to donate shirts to them.

And then this happened...

Click to purchase t-shirt here ($18)!

Also available in red. Unisex t-shirt sizes S-2XL.

Isaiah is an absolutely pleasure to work with and know. His professionalism and love for life is reflected in his success. Thank you so much for these shirts. The kids absolutely love them! THANK YOU, MESI ANPIL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"Don't trust them" they told me.  "You can't trust any of them" they said
as we talked about Haitian men on my first trip to Haiti years ago.  They
went on to paint a picture of men who hated commitment and family, wanted
to sleep around all the time, and was out looking for their next prey at
all times.

Years later I would enter a little village to live among Haitian's and
"fight for families".  I went in with our assumptions of what a "real
family" should look like based on my "American way".  I went in with
assumptions of Haitian men, broken families, and women scorned. I listened
to all the surveys, statistics that only look at external factors, and
opinions of people who come to Haiti for a week and think they know the
culture.  I forgot to listen first to Haitians. I forgot to find the
beauty and truth from the source.

Then I fell in love here.  With a Haitian.  Little by little I realized
that maybe my assumptions were wrong. About family structures here, about
love, about marriage.   How my assumptions placed unfair judgement on
people that I said I was trying to help.  I realized that maybe Haiti
could actually teach me some things about love and family and marriage.
And it has. More than I would have ever thought. It has taught me how to
love myself too.

Several months ago I woke up in the middle of the night with this giant
idea and passion to know more.  I don't want to listen to the reports that
look at external factors of only hardship and poverty and decide they know
families or relationships here-I want to hear it from Haitians.  I want to
know what love looks like in Haiti.  What Haitian's think about love,
families, relationships, and marriage.  I want to sit with people and hear
their stories and their heart.  I want to know what wives here struggle
with, what pressures men feel to provide for their family, what are there
worries and beliefs, and what teenagers dream about when they think of
love and marriage.  I want to know how relationships work here.  And I
believe that knowing more can actually help us serve Haitian's in a better
way.

Thus, Love in Haiti was born.  It is a relational research project that
asks Haitian's what love, marriage, and family mean to you and then also
compares that to reality.

We will be sitting down with 5,000 Haitians and asking them just this.
Our results, the stories we hear, will be shared on our Facebook page and
written in a book that will be published after.

This is a project of my heart and I would be honored to have you come
alongside! We are currently in need of funding so that we can pay for our
research assistants.  You can donate here at youcaring.com/loveinhaiti .
Even if it is $5 or $10, that makes a huge difference in the life of one
of our assistants!