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Haiti
Population: 6.6 million Life expectancy males/females: 48/52 years Infant mortality rate: 48‰ Illiteracy: 53%	Religions: Catholic 80%; Protestants 10%; Baptists; Adepts of Voodoo. Independence: 1st January 1804 (from France) GDP per capita: US $260 (1995)

The Spiritans of Haiti were always involved in the integral development of the people, this means participating in their struggle for more justice, and at the same time developing projects where the people themselves would be protagonists of their history. The work of conscientization is done through a free and popular press, as well as through an education which requires material accessible to all and produced with a view to a liberating educational process. On these lines is the newspaper Liberté and the Audio-visual Centre in which two confreres are involved.

The District receives candidates to Spiritan life. In recent years, structures were put in place in order that all the formation could be done in the country, from the postulancy, passing through the novitiate, to the theological studies. This does not mean that the co-operation with the other circumscriptions of Latin America has reached an end. There are Haitian students in several of them, following different stages of formation, and especially doing OTP.

Haiti is continuing its process of democratisation, in a world dominated by the logic of the market and globalisation. The comings and goings of democracy are a challenge for all. Our confreres who had a big participation in the re-establishment of an order which makes this process possible, continue faithful to their engagement with the Haitian people.

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