What helps Haiti? ‘Working with’ versus ‘doing for.’
As Jeanne-Baptiste Vania stirred a huge bubbling pot of spaghetti in fish stock at her plot in a burgeoning homeless encampment in Port-au-Prince, she was already thinking beyond her own plight.
It was January 2010, and just days earlier the matriarch of a family of 17 had lost her home in the Haitian capital in a devastating earthquake that had gut-punched the Caribbean island nation when it was already down: The poorest country in the Western Hemisphere was long considered a failed state.
In a matter of seconds, as many as 2 million Haitians were displaced, and several millions more were left without essential services or a source of income.
But here was Ms. Vania in the homeless encampment that, before the
