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REN Fan Club: A Moment of Relaxation for Haitian YouthHaïti
REN Fan Club: A Moment of Relaxation for Haitian Youth
Haïti
  • April 17, 2025
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REN Fan Club: A Moment of Relaxation for Haitian Youth

The Rassemblement pour une Entente Nationale (REN) is a Haitian civil society organization that actively works for a more just, inclusive, and prosperous Haiti. It firmly believes that the transformation of the country depends on the involvement of its citizens, particularly youth and women, who are the pillars of tomorrow, especially given their significant demographic weight in the Haitian population. Guided by this vision, REN focuses its efforts on training, raising awareness, and mobilizing these key groups to help them realize their strength and their ability to drive real change for Haiti’s development.

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A Necessity

Today, more than ever, this mission is essential. Haïti is going through a deep, multifaceted, and prolonged crisis. Political instability, growing insecurity, deteriorating living conditions, and the collapse of institutions — to name just a few — are major sources of concern for Haitians in their daily lives. These issues affect the population at various levels, and especially the youth. In the Haitian capital, for instance (although this doesn’t summarize the whole country’s situation), young people struggle to find breathing space, moments of relaxation, exchange, or simply joy. Many live in constant frustration, trapped in a harsh reality marked by uncertainty and discouragement. But a frustrated and isolated youth is not what Haïti needs right now. To get out of this crisis, the country needs fulfilled, confident, and united young people — youth who are capable of dreaming, coming together, and building. That’s the goal of the REN Fan Club initiative.

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A Space to Breathe, Reconnect, Dream

The REN Fan Club is a simple yet powerful initiative. It is a welcoming space open to young people, especially those who can reach REN’s offices located in Delmas 75. The goal is to offer them a day of relaxation, games (traditional, intellectual, video games…), sharing, and meals. It’s a much-needed break in their often difficult daily lives — a moment where they can feel young, alive, and supported.

But beyond entertainment, the REN Fan Club is also a place for informal learning, connection with peers, and discussion of topics that concern them. These interactions strengthen social ties and foster a spirit of solidarity, respect, and engagement. Young people leave more motivated, better equipped, and sometimes transformed by these simple moments of collective joy. Through this initiative, REN proves that you don’t always need major resources to make a difference. Sometimes all it takes is a space, some listening, food, and fraternity to restore hope. And with hope, everything becomes possible.

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Haïti Wonderland: How to Rewrite the Narrative of Haïti on the Web?

For the last three decades the internet has transformed the way people live, access information and promote worthy causes. Institutions that embrace this technology lead the way in their respective industries and last, while countries that embrace this technology and wisely implement it enable themselves to thrive and build sustainable economies. After decades of existence, the internet has been shared with mainly two groups of people; those who use it as a tool to build, and those who use it as a tool of destruction. Those who see the internet as a bridge to make a positive impact in the world and those who see it as the comfy bed to never leave, hence, the difference between the consumer and producer. Unfortunately our beloved home, Haiti, has been of the former mindset. Is it a lack of vision, lack of skills and competences or is it lack of hard working individuals? Regardless what it is or had been for decades, now is the time to change the paradigm on all fronts necessary and reshape the future. If the past decades have been ruled by non-production and negative press, now is the time to change the paradigm by producing and using the limitless of the web to sell the beauty, the culture and the greatness of Haïti to the rest of the world. If the past has been ruled with a selective truth and an effort to showcase the worst and by extension create the worst narrative, now, my fellow Haitian, regardless of where you are on this planet, is the time for us to undertake this mission, to take responsibility and recreate the narrative of our mother land. A narrative based on truth and transparency, a narrative that tells the story of who we are and certainly who we are not, a narrative to invite the world to explore and see for themselves. It is our duty. If not now, when? If not you and I, then, who? Our main mission at Haïti Wonderland is to rewrite the narrative of Haïti on the web. Then use the internet to bring Haïti back to the top of the touristic destination map once again. Those are what motivate us, the oxygen that we breath, they are the reason we wake up in the morning and fight. We didn’t choose this path because we know it will be easy but we choose it because: 1. It is a noble cause 2. It is necessary and 3. It must be done. But must importantly we take this path because we know you and every Haitian in this world, who knows the truth about Haïti are tired with what you see when typing Haïti on the web, and at the same time understand that something must change, and it must be done as soon as possible. We know you are ready for this, and together we will change the narrative of Haïti on the web and we will bring Haïti back to the top of the touristic destination map. This is a call of duty to you, regardless of your field of endeavor or where you’re located in this world. This is a call to join (http://haitiwonderland.com) to first see for yourself the movement you’re joining, then create your own account and start creating and sharing. Together we will rewrite the narrative of Haïti on the web. Thank you for joining this worthy cause. Let’s invite the world to discover the true face of Haiti.

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First black nation to free itself from slavery and gain independence from France in 1804 and influenced other liberation movements around the world, inspiring struggles for freedom and equality.

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