Davidson
Part 2
If you read my introduction (Part 1) you might say, “oh my gosh, poor man, there is no way for him”… and you would be right because life was so difficult for me. But that is not how my story goes.
Let me tell you who I am today and how I got there. Life wasn’t easy for me. I know that life isn’t easy for most people, especially in Haiti. You need to fight for what you really want and my only advantage was that I had the chance to meet many good people (Haitians, Foreigners…) that gave me possibilities. I surrounded myself with a lot of great people and during that time I never forgot what I had, what I currently have and what I would like to have one day. My behavior gave me a lot of opportunities and responsibilities. Since my 11 years old I have understood that after trusting God and His promises, education is the only way I have to get better and do better in life so I need to take seriously my studies. I try to keep learning every day because I want to be ready for any opportunity that can come on my way.Honestly I kept reading or studying hard how I can because I know it is more difficult for an ordinary people to find and get better in life so I need to do a little bit more than just being an ordinary person and bring solutions to people who don’t really have times to read a book per year.Over time I have developed the trust of people with honesty and honoring my commitments to them.
In 2013, I found one of my greatest opportunities which is the Bridge Scholarship program. I was one of their first students and I enjoyed that opportunity as much as I could. This scholarship was a big package with so many opportunities because it is not only a scholarship but it is a leadership program. After my time in the program I counted more than 12 books that I had read! They are all about personal development, finance, leadership, motivation, faith… etc, of course I know it is not too much but it is enough to build a person’s character, to build a strong foundation of leadership, and to raise more leaders in a country with a lack of good leaders.
During this time, I had the opportunity to attend almost all of the big leadership events in Haiti including seminars on marketing and entrepreneurship. The program also had mentoring sessions every three months where I had the opportunity to listen and meet so many great speakers and leaders like Guerson Petit-Homme (Instagram). Guerson is a very good example of a young leader in Haiti, coming from nothing to becoming the Chief Executive of Delta in Haiti. His life story inspires me so much!
I serve my community doing volunteer works with many organizations (local and international), last year I volunteered with “Port-au-Prince Startup Week” with Impact Hub Haiti, Alternatiba Haiti in Cite-soleil and with New Hope Baptist Church in Ganthier. I was one of the people who had the responsibility to recruit volunteers for “Logos Hope” the largest boat library in the world when they came Haiti in August 2017. It’s been 3 years that I have been part of a group that started a movement that is called “Prezan”. It’s logo is “I will attend school this year”. Every October we encourage other people to help children whose parents don’t have enough possibilities to provide them with school supplies. Last year the goal was to provide 1200 children school supplies but unfortunately we had provided only 850 children but this year we would like to cover over 1800 children and we hope that we will achieve the goal this year.
In my community with other students of the Bridge Scholarship we have started a movement to keep the area where we live always clean and we clean every 2 weeks. We try to give our neighbors a good example because we know doing that will motivate them to no longer throw their garbage in the street.
I support some young men and women in the south of Haiti, Les Cayes, with their soccer team there and I went to different countrysides of Haiti to speak with community leaders particularly young people. I went to Mirebalais, Jacmel, Les Cayes… and I will keep doing that because one person can’t change anything without the community’s commitment to change and live a better life than before!