I am from Haiti, in a place called Cité Soleil.
It is one of the biggest Slums of the country.
And it is also the most dangerous place of my country.
And the UN said – I think in 2004 – that Cité Soleil is the most dangerous place on
the planet.
So I was born in that place and grew up in that place and I am still working there in
that place and every weekend keep going back to see my family.
It's a place of misery, it's a place of hunger…
You know, as a child growing up in that place or a young man growing up in that place the
first question was: What am I going to eat today, what am I going to eat tomorrow.
When the people told you: Hey, can you do this for me and I will give you
some money...of course you do it because you need money to feed yourself! You need money
to take care of you family! You know, it was a moment in my life when I was about to chose
either a positive direction or a negative direction.
But it was easier for me to go to a negative direction because this is what I was seeing
every day.
People doing bad things just do get money, people do kidnapping especially in 2004 - of
course I would think maybe I will end in jail or I will end up killed but this is not enough
to make you keep yourself from joining the gangs and doing negative things.
I needed an answer for my question: What am I going to eat today.
But at this moment a miracle happend in my life.
I had the chance to go to a school that made a
partnership with Marys Meals.
My motivation was not that I knew that I would learn something - to become a musician, a
doctor, a president, a priest - but the motivation was I knew that I would finde something to
eat in that school.
Because that was the only school in the community where you can go and you can receive a meal
a day and you feel like: okay, I am ready for the teacher.
Because even the best teacher in the world cannot teach you - there is no method to teach
you if you are hungry!
Because the teacher is talking about chemistry and you keep asking yourself: Why am I hungry
now.
And what am I going to eat later.
I know so many of my friends who ended up in jail or died because they couldn't stay
in school.
So they had their chance to go to school but they couldn't stay because they had to leave
the school to find something for the family, something for themselves and the easiest way
was to join the gangs.
I would not call them gangs - just people who loose the way because there aren't any
opportunities in the country.
And I was able to build up my future.
I think because of that meal I was able to build up my future and now I'm feeling like
a positive man.
I never thought that I would hold a guitar one day.
And I wasn't even a boy who liked to listen to music.
What they did was they collected money for about 6 months and they paid the course for
me and they sent me to learn to play the guitar.
I went to the course for only two months and after the earthquake unfortunately everything
was destroyed and I couldn't go to the course any more and my guitar was broken.
An I saw the people needing something because they didn't know what was happening because
nobody knew what an earthquake was before.
Everybody was like: It's the end of the world!
Everybody was praying, everybody was calling God and in this moment I saw that the people
needed to see hope somewhere.
They needed to smile, they need to say "Hey, we can do something."
And took my guitar and I used the strings from the bicycle brakes and I repared the guitar.
I didn't even know how to play the guitar because the course was only theory for two
months...
I was strumming the guitar and seeing my vocals was on one side the the guitar was on the
other side and did something different because I didn't know anything about music.
And I saw the people.
You know, they liked it!
People really enjoyed it.
And since then I started so make music.
Write songs... an now I am doing music!
My faith started growing when I was 18 years old in high school.
That was the moment where there was a lot of philosophical discussions in school.
The teachers were questioning everything about God, about His existence and at this moment
I realized that looking at the nature, looking at the people, looking at rivers, looking
at the see, looking at the sky, looking at every single thing on earth there had to be
a holy spirit behind it.
And if you can wake up and you see that you're still breathing there is the holy spirit behind
that.
And my faith grew and after visiting Medjugorje it really made me think some more about God.
And especially when you go to that place - I' m from the other side of the world, that is
very far! - but being in Medjugorje makes me feel that I belong to something.
Makes me feel like there is a holy spirit, there is really a God.
Because you are in a place with thousands of people, different nations, different languages,
different types of personality... but in that place there is like a peace! there is no misunderstanding.
There is no fight.
There is no argument.
There is no tears.
It really made me feel that God is behind all of that and that you have to believe in
Jesus Christ.
That is how I feel.
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