Oh yeah

In the summer of 2003 I got to go to Haiti with a team from APU. Haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphere. Let me help you understand how poor.

We hired translators to help us in the medical clinics we set up. It's a huge blessing to them to be able to work for a whole month and for good wages. At the end of our trip, we all took a fun day and visited the citadel. It costs $20 a person because you have to ride someone's horse all the way up the mountain.

One of our translators just happened to meet us at the foot of the mountain and was frustrated with our leader. Why are we spending money on something as silly as seeing the citadel when we could use that money to hire more translators...giving more people jobs.

Our leader explained to him that it wasn't team money being used. Each student was using her own $20 to go up the mountain. He was astonished. "You mean these young people have $20?"