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Haitians helping Haitians. David Pierre-Louis journey back to Haiti from Seattle, in search for his mother in Port-au-Prince, and his reconnection with the people and non-stop efforts to enable recovery, reconstruction and change through the creation of the Strength through Unity initiative. Presented at Relief 2.0 in Haiti @ Stanford.

Teo Steinhauer, Coordinator of Quisqueya Christian School Earthquake Crisis Center points out the pitfalls and danger massive relief resources can cause on local infrastructure and health care providers, stressing the need to work closely with them to develop long-term solutions.

The first step would be to understand the local ecosystem and its stakeholders and to become familiar with existing and similar experiences, their successes and failures, both at a local level and in other places. This would keep us from duplicating efforts, repeating mistakes and would allow us to learn from such experiences and to identify local partners and others with relevant experience.