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- [Reporter] For
viewers just tuning in,

a 7.0-magnitude
earthquake has hit Haiti

a couple hours or so ago.

- [Reporter] Shoddy construction

in this impoverished
nation meant

buildings toppled to the ground.

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[people screaming]

- People of Haiti will
have the full support

of the United States
in the urgent effort

to rescue those trapped
beneath the rubble

and to deliver the humanitarian
relief, the food, water,

and medicine that Haitians
will need in the coming days.

[engine humming]

[pedestrians speaking
indistinctly]

[engine churning]

[paper rustling]

[door slamming]

[gate clanking]

[chair clattering]

- [Tim] And this here,
that's the structure of the,

and this is the second floor

and the framing for
the second floor.

This is the roof.

So, we have one, two, three,
four, five trusses like these.

- It's so interesting because
the players in this story,

without ever having
met them, I know them.

I know that well-meaning
person who comes down

and wants to help.

I know that person
who presents one face,

but then actually, you find out

that there's a lot
more to the story.

When we as human
beings wanna reach out,

and help each other,
and fix problems,

and make things better,
like, it's complicated.

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[students speaking
in foreign language]

- [Jack] I came to Haiti
to make a documentary

about a school being built.

[students laughing]

[students speaking
in foreign language]

and this footage is some
of the first that I filmed.

[students laughing]

I thought these shots
would convince you

that this school would be the
good thing, the helpful thing,

the right thing for these kids.

[students laughing]

But now I'm not so sure.

[dramatic music continues]

[teacher speaking
in foreign language]

- My sense is that
people wanna see films

that provide them with
answers and vision,

particularly for a nation

that has been
struggling for so long.

People wanna see films
that make 'em feel good.

Haiti's too complicated.
Haiti's too complicated.

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[water sloshing]
[birds chirping]

[engine humming]

♪ The children
♪ Hey

♪ We are the world
♪ We are the world

- [clears throat] I've
been in the valley

for about 30 years,
involved the construction

for most of that time.

I wanted to use my
experience to help someone

that really needed it
rather than working

in Aspen for all those
years, building houses

for people that don't
need 'em, you know.

[audience laughing]

So, some of those pictures
always bring tears to my eyes.

[Tim laughing]

I took most of the pictures.

Jack, the videographer back
here, did the video part.

He's making a documentary,
but yeah, I'm going

down this Saturday
for three weeks

to start the foundation
reinforcement.

You know, when the
earthquake happened,

I wasn't paying any
attention to that.

And I heard about the
school on NPR, and I says,

"Look, I can do this.

They got $3,000.

They build a foundation.

This can't be very hard."

[pensive music]

- [Jack] Just like
Tim, I was also moved

by the same story on NPR.

- [Adam] Hello, and welcome
to NPR's "Planet Money."

I'm Adam Davidson.

- [Caitlin] And
I'm Caitlin Kenney.

Today is Tuesday, June 15th.

On the show today, why free food

from America is starving
people in Haiti.

- [Adam] There is lots of
free rice all over the place.

USAID, the World Food Program,

they are giving rice
away, and it makes sense.

There's lots of people in Haiti

with no money who are starving.

- [Jack] From Port-au-Prince,
the NPR reporters traveled

three hours north to
the Artibonite Valley,

known as the rice
basket of Haiti,

to report a story
on those affected

by this US rice policy,
[bell ringing]

which is when they found
themselves at a church

that was doubling as a school

and met the principal
of that school,

who's also the pastor of the
church, Enselm Simpliste.

- [Caitlin] That's right,
Principal Simpliste.

- [Adam] Caitlin, don't
you mean Monsieur Awesome?

- [Caitlin] Oh, yes, excuse
moi, Monsieur Awesome.

Actually, that's kind of what
you and I took to calling him

because he was just
this awesome guy.

You could tell the kids loved
him, and I have to admit,

we kinda fell in
love with him, too.

[Enselm speaking in
foreign language]

- [Jack] The idea
that a small amount

of money to me could
have a huge impact

on someone like Simpliste
moved me to donate.

I did it 'cause I
thought I could help.

But then came the follow-up.

- [Caitlin] Four months
after the money came in,

it's all been spent.

All $3,000 is gone, and all the
school has to show for it is

this foundation and a
stack of concrete blocks.

[chicken clucking]

- [Jack] This film started
because I couldn't accept

that as the end of the story.

So, when Tim said he was gonna
help them finish the school,

I decided to document it.

- Okay, all right, thank you.

- [Donor] All right.
[trunk slamming]

- [Jack] How much
money do you think

you raised this morning?

- 100 bucks-

- Yeah.
- from that group.

In construction, what
I enjoyed the most was

the choreography of a job is
making it all come together,

getting everybody
to complete it,

the right steps, the right time.

That's what I enjoyed
as much as anything.

I still enjoy that part.

[engine humming]

[birds chirping]

- [Jack] And what all
did you do in here?

- I mean, if you want a tour,

I'll show you
everything I've done,

redone the whole kitchen.

I had to cut a hole in the
wall to the cement block,

put the doors in, do
all the bookcases,

both the countertop
and the cabinets.

I mean, it's a nice bathroom.

There's a big hole
behind the map.

- [Jack] Can I see the
hole behind poster?

[Tim laughs]

- Jack [laughs].

[paper rustling]

[plastic rustling]

Three and a half ounces
of rice and beans

dehydrated with some
seasoning, as you can see.

And that's a good meal.

That's a lot once it
hydrates, so this is good.

I'm telling you, this
is really good [laughs].

- [Jack] So, you're
really going all out.

- Well, I just think it's the
most economical way to do it

and hopefully to be
part of the village.

I really wanna try
to be part of it.

You know, I don't wanna
be the ugly American.

[upbeat music]

[vocalist singing
in foreign language]

[vocalist continues singing
in foreign language]

- [Jack] What's your name again?

- Mr. Liquidation,
buy one, get two free.

This is a reasonable price
I'm giving to you, man.

[vocalist singing
in foreign language]

[horn honking]

- We just bought guineps.

[vocalist singing
in foreign language]

Tim's approach was to
collaborate with the community

and teach them
new ways to build.

And my film was gonna show
how they were doing aid right.

[vocalists singing
in foreign language]

And finally, we meet
Mr. Awesome himself,

the principal and
pastor from the radio.

He also seems to be de facto
running the whole village.

[Tim speaking in
foreign language]

[Enselm speaking in
foreign language]

[Tim speaking in
foreign language]

[Enselm speaking in
foreign language]

- Driving, been in
the car since 9:00.

- [whistles] Ooh.

[hands smacking]

[Matt speaking in
foreign language]

[Sebastien speaking
in foreign language]

[Matt speaking in
foreign language]

- Easy, easy.

[worker speaking in
foreign language]

[Matt speaking in
foreign language]

[workers speaking
in foreign language]

- [Jack] This is Matt.

He's who Tim hired to translate
for Haiti School Project,

except when he isn't,
and then Sebastien,

who's working on
the movie, jumps in.

You'll see these two guys
swap throughout the film.

[Matt speaking in
foreign language]

[workers laughing]

- [Tim] I want to start
by thanking everyone-

[Matt speaking in
foreign language]

- [Tim] for their patience.

[Matt speaking in
foreign language]

- And I apologize for my lack
of language skills in Creole.

[Matt speaking in
foreign language]

[Enselm laughing]

- But I want to reinforce
with the principal,

and the teachers, and everyone
is that this is their dream.

As the blond and
crazy foreigner, I
can only help, right?

I can't do it for them.
[hand thudding]

What questions do
you have for me?

[Matt speaking in
foreign language]

[Enselm speaking in
foreign language]

- What I would like to know is,

when is the
construction starting?

- Tomorrow.

[Matt speaking in
foreign language]

[Enselm speaking in
foreign language]

[workers laughing]

[ball thudding]

[players speaking
in foreign language]

- You teach me Creole, and
I'll help you with English.

Okay?

[Tim speaking in
foreign language]

- 20.

- 20?

- 20, 22.

- 22?
- Two.

- Okay.

[Tim speaking in
foreign language]

[volunteer speaking
in foreign language]

[Tim speaking in
foreign language]

[volunteer speaking
in foreign language]

[Tim speaking in
foreign language]

[child speaking in
foreign language]

[volunteer laughs]

- 11?

[child speaking in
foreign language]

- [speaking in foreign
language] 11, one, one?

- 11 years.

[Tim speaking in
foreign language]

[volunteer speaking
in foreign language]

- Hmm.
[volunteer laughing]

[Tim laughing]
[upbeat music]

[Tim speaking in
foreign language]

- Friends [speaking
in foreign language].

Friends, right?
- Friends.

- [Tim] [speaking in
foreign language] that's it.

[goats bleating]
[upbeat music continues]

[rooster crowing]

[vocalist singing
in foreign language]

[Enselm speaking in
foreign language]

[footsteps plodding]

[Enselm speaking in
foreign language]

- Perfecto.

[child speaking in
foreign language]

[paper rustling]

[Tim speaking in
foreign language]

[rebar clanking]

[upbeat music continues]

- The furthest thing in my mind

I ever thought I'd
be doing was working

in another country
to help people.

I'd been against that my
whole life, missionaries.

- [Jack] Why?

- 'Cause, for the most
part, churches have done

more ill will than goodwill
by running around the world.

I was forced to go to church
really until I was 18,

until I was 18, and
it's like anything else.

The more you know about
something, you know,

people are people.

[villagers speaking
in foreign language]

- Hey, what?

Photo of all you girls?

See, no, see now she's hiding.

[Sebastien speaking
in foreign language]

- In front, there you go,
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

There you go, Rosemont.

[Tim speaking in
foreign language]

No, not everybody [laughs].

One more, one more,
one more, come on.

- [Jack] Do you think
about the school

as, like, your legacy?

- It may be one of the better
things I've done in my life,

that's for sure [laughs].

Yeah, but legacy,
just giving back,

which I think we have
a responsibility to do.

[Tim laughing]

[child speaking in
foreign language]

- I think I owe something
to the world, right,

especially the
country I live in,

United States that we live in.

I think we owe.

[children speaking
in foreign language]

[children laughing]

[students singing
in foreign language]

[gentle music]

[Madame Claude speaking
in foreign language]

[translator speaking
in foreign language]

[Madame Claude speaking
in foreign language]

- [Jack] Why not?

[translator speaking
in foreign language]

[Madame Claude speaking
in foreign language]

[gentle music]

[motorcycle humming]

[Dr. Mathurin speaking
in foreign language]

- I think, for me, it's really
about kids in rural Haiti

being able to decide
whether or not

they wanna pursue farming
like their parents

or to say, "Actually,
farming's great,

but I would really like to
do something different,"

as opposed to, "This is
the only option for me."

- People will sacrifice food
for themselves to buy uniforms

for their child, buy books for
their child to go to school.

And the books are falling apart,

and the uniform doesn't
actually have anything

to do with whether or not
the kid gets educated.

But they understand at this
fundamental, elemental level

that education is the
path out of poverty.

[children speaking
in foreign language]

- That's all for today.

- [Jack] What's that?

- That's all for today.

That's all for today, you know?

- Yes.
- You understand?

- Yes.
- Yes?

- [Jack] Yeah, perfect.

[teacher laughing]

[crickets chirping]
[water sloshing]

[gentle music continues]

A few days in, and things
seem to be going well,

but then Sebastien
said something

that just sorta stayed with
me, and it's that Haiti is

like a plate of spaghetti.

- It had so many issues.

It's like a spaghetti.

You're pulling a string.

You think you're gonna
reach the end of the string,

and it's tied to another string.

So, you keep
pulling, and pulling,

pulling, and never ending.

So, I think all issues are
related one to another.

[workers speaking
in foreign language]

[water sloshing]

- [Tim] Okay, so go back to
the first thing we have to do.

[Sebastien speaking
in foreign language]

- [Tim] The very first thing,
we gotta get the corners.

[Sebastien speaking
in foreign language]

- [Tim] Corners.

- All four corners?

- All four corners.

[Sebastien speaking
in foreign language]

- When you build, you
want it to be level,

square, and plum, three things.

That's it.

- [Jack] How many things
are you right now?

- We're not there yet [laughs].

They've had schools
collapse here

that weren't even part
of the earthquake.

You start having concrete
floors come down on you,

and you don't survive that.

It has to be built right.

It has to be, no other way.

I won't do it.

[clears throat]
So, the reason why

we're building this
structure the way we are

with the columns, and beams,
and the reinforced concrete is

because the engineer didn't
wanna trust the block here.

So, if we drop it
from this elevation,

[block smashing]

it's no good.

So, there's enough
cement in this one,

[block thudding]

but there's not enough
in this part right here.

It's really not acceptable
for earthquakes.

[worker speaking in
foreign language]

[Dr. Mathurin speaking
in foreign language]

[workers speaking
in foreign language]

[Dr. Mathurin speaking
in foreign language]

[workers speaking
in foreign language]

- Ask him, tie it
on and pound it in.

Then, we can move the
stake back and forth.

Important.
- [Sebastien] It's important.

- So, if it's not important,
[speaking in foreign language].

- Yeah, [speaking in
foreign language].

- [speaking in foreign
language] important.

- [speaking in foreign language]
important, it's important,

[speaking in foreign
language], it's not important.

- [speaking in foreign
language] important, okay.

[leaves rustling]
[machete thudding]

It bothers me that the main
guy is using the machete

to cut the trees down.

Shouldn't he be having

other people do this
work, the engineer?

The engineer is the
highest paid person here.

[workers speaking
in foreign language]

[stalks rustling]

[Enselm speaking in
foreign language]

[worker speaking in
foreign language]

[Enselm speaking in
foreign language]

- [clears throat]
What's most important is

that Lucien
understands the plans.

[Matt speaking in
foreign language]

[Lucien speaking in
foreign language]

[measuring tape rattling]

[Lucien speaking in
foreign language]

[measuring tape rustling]

[Lucien speaking in
foreign language]

- [Sebastien] He, Matt can you?

- Yeah, he wants to
make another structure

on the same level
with the existing one,

the existing
foundation, got that?

- That's what he wants to do?

- Yeah, that's what he thinks-
- That's what I keep,

that's what I keep
saying we can't do.

[Matt speaking in
foreign language]

- You can't do that.

[Matt speaking in
foreign language]

- [Tim] That's
getting to the heart

of the problem right there

because this isn't the
way this is being built.

This is different.

[Sebastian speaking
in foreign language]

- Okay.

- Typically, they'll
do the rock foundation,

and then they'll put
the wall on top of that.

- [Sebastien] Okay.

- We need the wall
down below grade,

below ground, a foot and a half.

That wall has to be below ground

so that we can put
dirt up against it.

- We have two different reality.

Things might work some
way in your own country

but doesn't apply
in our country.

The chalkboard, the chalkboard.

- Yes.

- I suggest you put it
there so everyone can see.

- That's a good idea, but I
think maybe Lucien should draw-

- Should draw it himself?

- draw it.

That way, we know
he understands.

[Enselm speaking in
foreign language]

[birds chirping]

[feet shuffling]

- [Jack] Unless you're
a construction person,

you might be just as confused
as Lucien and his crew are.

[Lucien speaking in
foreign language]

- [Sebastien] He's
gonna explain.

- Okay, here's my
approach in the States,

United States, my approach.

I don't care if she
works all night long.

Tuesday, the footings
are done, right?

Tell him that, huh?

[Matt speaking in
foreign language]

[Sebastien laughs]

[Sebastian speaking
in foreign language]

[worker speaking in
foreign language]

[Sebastien speaking
in foreign language]

[Lucien speaking in
foreign language]

[Matt speaking in
foreign language]

- You don't worry about that.
- Don't worry?

[workers speaking
in foreign language]

[pensive music]

- There's a kind of inequality
[laughing] some ways

between a foreigner
arriving in Haiti

and the real communities in
Haiti in equality of memory.

When an American and a Haitian
are looking at each other,

they are looking at each other

with very, very different
contexts and histories.

That history is not
embedded in them in the way

that, for Haitians, the
memory of other forms

of outside
intervention are alive.

They're literally
ancestral memories.

[pensive music continues]

- Haiti's a place that has
been in the imagination

of Americans for
a very long time,

but it's a place
that they don't know.

They don't understand Haiti,
have never taken the time

to go, to read widely about
the country, to study it.

- Haiti emerges as a
country founded by ex-slaves

at a moment when the world
is dominated by slavery.

The great, powerful empires
of the world have slavery.

United States has slavery,
and here you have a country

that's premised on the rejection

of this system
that surrounds it.

So, on every level,
it kind of posed

a deep, deep challenge
to other societies,

and it continues
to pose that today.

Only in 1825 does France
recognize Haitian independence,

and when they do so,
they levy an indemnity

of 150 million francs,
effectively forcing Haitians

to pay for their freedom,

and that sort of incites
the cycle of debt.

The Haitian Constitution
had banned foreign whites

from owning land in Haiti
as a measure essentially

against the former
plantation owners returning.

The US wanted to get
rid of that provision

for obvious reasons
so US companies could
own land in Haiti.

And when the parliament
refused, they had dispersed

the parliament and
kinda forced this change

in order to kind of open the
way for foreign investment.

- [Reporter] Nature
endowed this place

with fertility and
natural beauty.

It was left to the greed and
ignorance of men to ruin it.

This week, "Echo" looks

at the beggar of
the Americas, Haiti.

[adventurous music]

- Haiti has become a symbol
for, like, the sick child

in a sense in the
Western Hemisphere.

- [Reporter] For 167 years,

ever since its revolution
dislodged the French in 1804,

Haiti has been torn by terror,
bloodshed, and despair.

- I actually think that a lot
of Americans care about Haiti.

I don't know that
they care in a way

that isn't further damaging
or that isn't infantilizing.

- [Reporter] On the
island of Hispaniola,

which it shares with
the Dominican Republic,

Haiti becomes another
Caribbean scene of crisis.

- [Fabienne] What I think
happens with a lot of the way

that everyday Americans
tend to think about Haiti is

it's just a doomed place,

and it's kind of a
doomed situation.

- People are drawn to it
because they wanna help,

but the word help, I
always struggle with it

because I wanna know what
people are trying to get at,

and how quickly they just wanna
feel good about themselves,

or how invested they are
in a problem or an issue.

- A lot of people who do
wanna help maybe don't know

where to turn to, or how
to offer, how to volunteer.

They can hook up with
a group like this,

and they can find real
purpose in their own lives

by reaching out to
help other people

through Samaritan's Purse.

- You are buying something
with the 20 or the $50

that you give to charity.

You're buying a good feeling.

But if you think about
it, it's a commodity.

I mean, you're paying for it.

"Here's 20 bucks.

Make me feel good about myself."

And the aid groups do that.

They come back to you, and
they sell you a vision.

- Poor little me feels

like the sky is falling
here all the time,

but imagining it
through Haitian eyes,

you can say all day, "I
don't know how they do it,"

but as long as they're doing it,

we gotta, you know, find
our way to do it well.

- "These people have nothing.

Wouldn't you like to give $20
to somebody who has nothing?"

And then they show you always
the picture of the child,

and he's got the big eyes,
and he's looking up at you.

It's because it
gives you a feeling.

You get the serotonin release,

and you feel good.

[rice kernels rattling]

[villagers speaking
in foreign language]

- [Jack] What do you
think about the idea

of Americans coming
into this country

and trying to tell people
how it's supposed to be done?

- If you're gonna come,

if you think you have
to come here and help,

come here and teach them
something, or let them do it,

pay them to do it,
but don't come here

and do it for 'em, number one.

[Enselm speaking in
foreign language]

[worker speaking in
foreign language]

[Enselm speaking in
foreign language]

[Enselm laughing]

[workers speaking
in foreign language]

[Enselm speaking in
foreign language]

- Un blanc, basically, is
someone who's not Haitian.

Blanc means white.

Us, as Haitian people,
we're dark-skinned.

We're just Black, so any
outsiders are usually blanc.

The blanc, for the poor
class, means the one

who has knowledge, the
one who has experience,

the one who travels a lot,

so basically, the one
who has the power.

[villagers speaking
in foreign language]

- [Jack] Let's tug
on that first string

from Sebastien's spaghetti.

Relatively speaking, Tim,
as an American, is rich.

To the rural Haitians,
his wealth seems endless,

but this project is being
funded by individual donors

and Tim's dwindling savings.

So, resentment starts to
creep in from everyone.

- So, what are we doing, huh?

[workers speaking
in foreign language]

- Is it lunchtime or what?

We're taking a break?

[Sebastien speaking
in foreign language]

[Enselm laughing]

[paper rustling]

[Enselm speaking in
foreign language]

[Sebastien speaking
in foreign language]

[Enselm speaking in
foreign language]

[Sebastian speaking
in foreign language]

- It's 13 plus the
engineer, Lucien.

[paper rustling]
That's 14.

- It's too many then.

- Too many?

- Sure, where's 13
people out there

doing something right now?

For the day?

13 people for the day?

[workers speaking
in foreign language]

- So, there's maybe seven
people working right now.

So, where's the 13?

Okay, so what do we have?

We got one, two,
three, four, right?

[Tim speaking in
foreign language]

[Enselm speaking in
foreign language]

[Tim speaking in
foreign language]

[Enselm speaking in
foreign language]

[Matt speaking in
foreign language]

[worker speaking in
foreign language]

- If I see what I think
is too many people,

and they're standing around,

we can't pay for
people to stand around.

[Matt speaking in
foreign language]

[workers speaking
in foreign language]

- Where I come from, we
say, "Time is money."

So, if we're standing
around, that's wasting money.

[Matt speaking in
foreign language]

[Enselm laughing]

[Matt speaking in
foreign language]

[Enselm speaking in
foreign language]

- [Tim] The NGOs started at,
you know, $5 a day to do this,

to do that, kinda
hand out money,

and there was no supervision.

- [Jack] In Haiti,

non-governmental organizations
typically fill the gaps

left by the weak
central government,

but they work independently
from the government

and so lack accountability
and coordination.

And whether it's a
small NGO like Tim's

or a massive
international corporation,

they all do the same thing,

use donated money
and foreign resources

to further their priorities
in the host country.

[cash rustling]
[gentle music]

- People have said that
Haiti is a republic of NGOs

because there're possibly more

than 10,000 non-governmental
organizations on the island.

- It's the aid sector,
and the reason it's

the republic of NGOs
is because aid is

the dominant force
in the economy.

All these formal sectors
have basically disappeared,

but in the meantime,
the aid sector grown.

[Dr. Mathurin speaking
in foreign language]

[gentle music continues]

- [Laurent] So, one of the
places where you really see

an influence of the US at
work is around rice policy.

And under Clinton,
they set up a situation

in which American rice
can be brought to Haiti.

And this undercuts the
Haitian rice industry

in a kinda radical way.

One thing is clear, there's
absolutely no reason

that Haiti should
import so much food.

- [Jack] Yeah, you
talk to USAID, though,

and they would say,
"But they can't."

- Right, yeah [laughs].

- [Jack] So, that's not true?

- I don't think
that's true, yeah.

This is a rural country based

on rural agricultural production

and has been for
hundreds of years.

[gentle music continues]

[Enselm speaking in
foreign language]

[dishes clanking]

[Enselm speaking in
foreign language]

[dishes clanking]

- You know, here was
an extension of US
agricultural policy.

We subsidized our farmers.

We had massive surplus
aid, and what they did

with that surplus aid is
they used it as currency.

They weren't giving money.

You read the figures and
say, "Okay, you know,

they gave $100
million to Haiti."

They didn't give 'em
$100 million dollars.

They gave 'em food.

[students speaking
in foreign language]

[teacher speaking
in foreign language]

- [Jack] I mean,
all this being said,

have people from developed
countries helped Haiti?

- [clears throat] I don't know.

This is the problem
with that question.

It doesn't matter anymore.

[clears throat] We can't stop
now, and even if we could,

even if it was the best
thing, just to stop helping,

they're not gonna stop
because the reality is

aid's coming, NGOs are here,
and they're not going anywhere.

[workers speaking
in foreign language]

[Lucien speaking in
foreign language]

[workers speaking
in foreign language]

- I got on the phone and whined

to the board about Simpliste.

You know, I felt like
he was making money

on every transaction we did.

Then, you know, and I go back,
and I check all the pricing

that you're supposed to be
paying, and we're right there,

a little more on the cement,
but I mean, 50 cents a bag.

So, he's making 50 cents a bag.

I mean he's
providing the service

of getting all
that stuff for us.

Every time I need something,
he comes up with it.

That service is worth something.

Although you could
also then say,

"Well, why doesn't
he volunteer that?

That's his buy-in."

Yesterday you tell
me you need a pump.

You need a pump.

[Matt speaking in
foreign language]

- [Tim] But you didn't
tell me you needed buckets.

[Matt speaking in
foreign language]

- You didn't tell me
that yesterday, why?

[Matt speaking in
foreign language]

- You didn't tell
that you needed

a bucket and a
wheelbarrow yesterday.

[Enselm speaking in
foreign language]

- Huh?

You didn't tell me.

[Enselm speaking in
foreign language]

- [Tim] So, what
are you gonna tell

me tomorrow that you need?

[Matt speaking in
foreign language]

[worker speaking in
foreign language]

- You know, I gave him

how many thousand gourdes
yesterday, 60,000?

60,000 gourde, and he
can't buy a wheelbarrow?

Ask him. Use those words.

Not your words, use those
words, 60,000 gourdes,

and he can't buy a wheelbarrow?

[Matt speaking in
foreign language]

[Lucien speaking in
foreign language]

[worker speaking in
foreign language]

[Lucien speaking in
foreign language]

- The money you give them was
to buy the materials, and-

- Okay.
- this wasn't.

- I need the receipts for
the cement, the gravel,

the cement, [clears
throat] and the bucket,

and the wheelbarrow, and
then I'm not spending

any more money till
that foundation is done.

So, let's be very clear.

Otherwise, I will
leave immediately.

- Okay.

- No more money
until that is done.

[feet shuffling]

- Race is a part of
the story, absolutely.

And obviously, it's
part of the history

of how Haiti has been sort
of projected to the world.

Everyone's coming in
with their own baggage

into this situation.

For a Haitian, you may
see a white person.

You may say to yourself,
"Can I trust this person?

How can this person help me?

If I allow this person into
my life, how will it hurt?"

That imbalance, that inequality,

that sort of asymmetrical
relationship immediately starts

once they're bringing

quote, unquote
"expertise" and capital.

[workers speaking
in foreign language]

- But they don't
have enough concrete.

- [Tim] I know that.

I knew that two hours ago, yeah.

[workers speaking
in foreign language]

- Everything we've done
today has been incorrect.

I mean, Matt has told 'em.

We've told them one,
two, three times.

I don't know what to
do, so I need your help.

What do we do?
[hands thudding]

- See, the thing is that
they're used to building-

- I understand that.

We've been there.

I understand that.

- So, it's kind of hard for them

to switch to another
way like this.

[Tim sniffs]

- Well, it's really hard
when they don't listen.

- [Matt] Especially
when your way is-

- Simpliste told me that
there's a fragile situation.

- A what?

- He would rather
you and him first.

- I can't hear.

[chair clattering]

- Simpliste doesn't, like,
too much appreciate the fact

that the engineer
is in this meeting.

He would rather have
him and you first,

and then we can call
the engineer, Lucien.

- Oh, okay, that's fine.

You want to tell
Lucien to leave?

- No, we can do it
a diplomatic way.

- What?

- A diplomatic way.

- A diplomatic way?

- Right, and-

- Okay, well let's ask him

if we can just speak to
Simpliste for a minute alone.

Is that a diplomatic way and
then have Lucien come back?

[Enselm speaking in
foreign language]

- When you have an
engineer working on it,

and for some reason
you fire that engineer,

and you have another
engineer studying

where the first engineer left,

it's gonna create

a real tense situation.
- Well, it doesn't matter

whether you are in Haiti
or the United States.

When you have to fire
someone, it's not good.

- Which way is looking
better for you,

this way or this way?

- [Crew] This way, the lightest.

- Yeah, this is a lot better.

- I think the guy was
overwhelmed most of the time.

He was just kind of overwhelmed,

and it was just
too much for him.

Please thank Lucien
for his work,

and I'm sorry it
hasn't worked out,

but maybe next time, okay?

[Matt speaking in
foreign language]

[Lucien speaking in
foreign language]

- Okay?

- Okay.

[paper rustling]

[chair clattering]

[Lucien and Matt speaking
in foreign language]

- [Tim] Yep.

- [Jack] One of the
initial ideas, though, was

to try and teach a
new way of building.

- Well, we still are.

- [Jack] Are you?
- To a certain, yeah, we're-

- [Jack] You just fired a
crew that could have learned.

- Oh, that could have learned.

Yeah, but we fired
a crew that was made

up of relatives,
friends, teachers.

We ended up paying 23
people for the week.

- [Jack] How many worked?

- Half.

So, you know, [clears throat]
if you look back on it,

maybe we shoulda just
given 'em $5,000.

They'd've probably
had four rooms done.

- [Jack] It's not too late.

- It's not too late?

[Tim laughing]

Yeah, can you imagine doing
that now, all the bullshit

we put out on the website
and all that shit?

Nah.

[kids speaking in
foreign language]

I know I get excited,
but I get over it.

I don't stay upset with
anything or anyone.

You know what I mean?

So, we should tell him.

[Enselm speaking in
foreign language]

[Enselm laughing]

[Sebastien speaking
in foreign language]

[Enselm speaking in
foreign language]

- He was in bad shape
when he heard you said

that, "If the things
are going that way,

I'm leaving right now."

[all laughing]

He was so upset about it.

- [Matt] I mean, and I'm sure

you weren't really
thinking that, yeah.

- No, well, I think it.
- Yeah.

- I think it, but I can't do it.

[Matt laughing]

- [Matt] Hey.

[chicken clucking]
[engine humming]

- [Jack] I don't have an answer

that's satisfactory of, why
are you so committed to this?

- I-
- You have a line,

because you said you were gonna
do it, but you're not, like-

- No, no, before that, there
was the education thing

'cause I just
believe in education.

So, that's what touched
me when I heard the story

on NPR was about education.

Part of it was I was
seduced by the story, too.

Sure.

Foolishly seduced almost
into believing, you know?

But I don't wanna go there.

That's water under the bridge.

That's my fault.

[kids speaking in
foreign language]

[bucket clanking]

[water sloshing]

[towel rustling]

- [Jack] So, what question would
you ask yourself right now?

- Why I got myself into this.

- [Jack] Have you been asking
yourself that question?

- [laughs] Well, of course, I
ask myself that all the time.

[Tim laughing]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

- [Jack] What's the answer?

- 'Cause I thought I
could do it, yeah, yeah.

I thought I could do it.

[engine humming]

[dramatic music]

- [Jack] The story
I wanted to tell,

you've probably heard before.

A community led by a
dynamic leader is in need.

Well-intentioned people with
knowledge and money help.

The project is built,
cultural exchange transpires,

and everyone's
the better for it.

But that story seems
to be slipping away.

[dramatic music continues]

[congregation singing
in foreign language]

[Enselm speaking in
foreign language]

[attendees speaking
in foreign language]

[Enselm speaking in
foreign language]

- Okay, it's up to you.

You're driving.

That's fine.

- [Jack] Another pull on
the spaghetti string reveals

that Simpliste's
school is private,

and he needs students
to earn a living.

He's also competing for students

from no fewer than six
other schools in Villard,

and Tim's presence throws
all of this off balance.

[Enselm speaking in
foreign language]

[engine humming]

- What does the government,
government of Haiti help?

Do they help at all?

[Enselm speaking in
foreign language]

- [Tim] Hello.

- It's more of, like,
a profit-making model.

It's not a hard
business to start up.

You don't need a ton of
investment to start a school.

You can just start a school.

You can start it with five kids.

It's gonna grow.

[villagers speaking
in foreign language]

- [Tim] Would it be all
right if you have a picture

with me and the two
brothers with my camera?

- [Sebastien] Only
if you step aside.

- Is it better if we sit down.

- [Sebastien] Yeah, sit there.

[Sebastian speaking
in foreign language]

[ringtone chiming]

[Sebastian speaking
in foreign language]

- Okay?

- That's fine.
- All right.

[Tim speaking in
foreign language]

- [Simpliste] Thank you, man.
- All right.

[Enselm speaking in
foreign language]

[attendees speaking
in foreign language]

[Enselm speaking in
foreign language]

[attendees speaking
in foreign language]

[Enselm speaking in
foreign language]

- In the United States, we tend

to associate private
school with good school.

But in Haiti,
that's not the case.

The vast majority of private
schools are fly-by-night crap

that someone who has no
business running a school,

that doesn't know
anything about education,

they don't know
anything about pedagogy,

they don't know
anything about anything

except that a school's a
good way to make money.

- [Simpliste] Okay.

- [Tim] Okay.

- How do you build
a school in Haiti?

And if someone responds,
"You get an NGO,"

it demonstrates it's
difficult times.

[Enselm speaking in
foreign language]

- [Sebastien] Here, we
can do everything, making

churches, schools.
- Yeah, yeah.

- [Sebastien] Uh-huh.

- [Tim] Nice to build
something here, huh?

- [Jack] Who's building it?

- They are.

[Tim laughing]

Yeah.

Who do you think, Jack?

[Tim laughing]

I told you what the deal was.

This is a dog-and-pony
show to get people

to believe in something, and
he's doing a good job of it.

So, it's good.
[dramatic music]

- This is the corner from
here all the way to there.

- Yeah.

- [Jack] We were so swept up
in the idea of helping someone

that we never stopped to ask,

where did the idea of a
new school even come from?

And then Simpliste
showed us his house.

Can he tell us where
we are right now?

[Matt speaking in
foreign language]

[Enselm speaking in
foreign language]

[Matt speaking in
foreign language]

[Enselm speaking in
foreign language]

[footsteps plodding]

[Enselm speaking in
foreign language]

- [Jack] Where
does he want to go?

[Enselm speaking in
foreign language]

- [Jack] New Jersey?

[Enselm laughing]

[engine humming]

- [Jack] Okay, so Simpliste
is taking the money

he earns as the school
director to build his house

with the goal of one
day going to New Jersey,

which is not what I
expected, but at this point,

what's important
is that it seems

like Simpliste is really
benefiting from the project.

[engine revving]

[villagers speaking
in foreign language]

[children speaking
in foreign language]

[footsteps plodding]

- [Jack] And meanwhile,
construction has started

back up again, now with a new
engineer, one that Tim found.

[chair clattering]

- Okay, so.

[tool clanging]

Close enough for now.

[hammer thudding]

That's close enough
for right now.

For right now, it's okay.

Okay.

Now, Jilbert,
bring your tape up.

[Tim speaking in
foreign language]

This is fantastic [laughs].

I don't care what
he does after this.

We get the corners in.

He can go about however
he wants to do it.

[vocalist singing
in foreign language]

- About 57.1.

Yeah, it's close.

So, now you-

[Matt speaking in
foreign language]

- You [speaking in
foreign language].

- [Matt] [speaking in
foreign language], uh-huh.

- Can make it perfect.

[Matt speaking in
foreign language]

- Perfect.
- Okay.

[Tim speaking in
foreign language]

[Jilbert speaking
in foreign language]

[Tim speaking in
foreign language]

[workers speaking
in foreign language]

[Jilbert speaking
in foreign language]

- [Jack] How did he
start in construction?

[Jilbert speaking
in foreign language]

[Matt speaking in
foreign language]

[Jilbert speaking
in foreign language]

[Matt laughing]

[Jilbert speaking
in foreign language]

- [Matt] He has 11 children.

[Jilbert speaking
in foreign language]

[upbeat music]

- Cut, [speaking in
foreign language]

- To cut?

- [Sebastien] Cut.
- Cut.

[Sebastian and Tim speaking
in foreign language]

- That's a good one, yeah, good.

Cut here.

[Sebastian speaking
in foreign language]

[Tim speaking in
foreign language]

[upbeat music continues]

- [Sebastien] To rain,
[speaking in foreign language].

- [Tim] [speaking in
foreign language], okay.

- That's a good one.
- Yeah, yeah.

[Tim speaking in
foreign language]

- [Sebastien] I don't need.

[Tim speaking in
foreign language]

- This is right.

[Tim speaking in
foreign language]

- [Sebastien] This is not right.

[Tim speaking in
foreign language]

- [Sebastien] You have to work.

[Tim speaking in
foreign language]

- [Sebastien] How long?

[Tim speaking in
foreign language]

- [Sebastien] How many?

[Tim speaking in
foreign language]

- [Sebastien] To cut.

[Tim speaking in
foreign language]

- [Sebastien] Cut here.

[Tim speaking in
foreign language]

- [Tim] How about go get?

[Sebastian speaking
in foreign language]

- [Sebastien] Start, [speaking
in foreign language].

[Tim laughing]

- Shoulda been the
first word, huh?

- [Sebastien] Start.

- [Tim] [speaking in foreign
language], it's very good?

[Tim speaking in
foreign language]

[Jilbert speaking
in foreign language]

- [Tim] Okay.

- What's good?

- [Tim] It's all good.

What do you mean, what's good?

He means what's good?

- Yeah.

- [Tim] No, I'm trying
to say, "It's good."

It is good.

- Oh, [speaking in
foreign language].

[Jilbert speaking
in foreign language]

[tools clattering]

- And they're working great.

I mean, they work
really well together.

- Yeah.
- Yeah.

Mostly, they're in their element

right now with laying block.

They're very good at that.

[tools clattering]

[Jilbert speaking
in foreign language]

- [Tim] No.
[hammer thudding]

- Yeah, he wants the...

- There, [grunts] there.

There, there.

And then the next course here-

[Jilbert speaking
in foreign language]

- is gonna be there.

[Jilbert speaking
in foreign language]

- Okay?

- Yeah, okay.

[Tim and Jilbert speaking
in foreign language]

- We have [speaking
in foreign language].

Crazy, crazy country, man.

[Tim speaking in
foreign language]

[Jilbert speaking
in foreign language]

- Crazy?

- Crazy.
- Crazy.

- Crazy.

[workers speaking
in foreign language]

[Tim speaking in
foreign language]

[workers speaking
in foreign language]

- Haiti, eight, seven,
eight, nine, 10.

Okay, one other thing.

[all laughing]

we tore two windows
out yesterday.

[Jilbert speaking
in foreign language]

[Enselm speaking in
foreign language]

[Matt speaking in
foreign language]

- I'm not gonna correct him,
but I let the mistake happen,

and then we'll tear
it out and redo it.

And then, we start over.

[Matt speaking in
foreign language]

[Enselm speaking in
foreign language]

[Matt speaking in
foreign language]

[Enselm speaking in
foreign language]

[all laughing]

[Enselm speaking in
foreign language]

[Jilbert speaking
in foreign language]

[Matt speaking in
foreign language]

[Jilbert speaking
in foreign language]

- [Jack] When do you think
you'll be done, Jilbert?

[Jilbert speaking
in foreign language]

- [Jack] So, what room is this?

[Jilbert speaking
in foreign language]

- [Matt] Bedroom,
bedroom for his children.

[Jilbert speaking
in foreign language]

- [Jack] Very nice [speaking
in foreign language].

It's great.

- Some people take,
like, 15 years

to build their personal house.

Okay, you're gonna tell me,
"Okay, oh, that 15 years,

that should be a big house."

Not necessarily,
not necessarily.

He got a little cash.

He throws it into the
construction, and he stopped.

He got a little cash
after three months,

throw it in the
construction and stop,

so just little by little.

[upbeat music]

[vocalist singing
in foreign language]

[vocalist continues singing
in foreign language]

[vocalist continues singing
in foreign language]

[crickets chirping]
[dogs barking]

[Sebastian speaking
in foreign language]

[Madame Claude speaking
in foreign language]

- [Jack] Madame Claude's
son, Benji, goes

to Simpliste's school.

[Sebastian speaking
in foreign language]

[Madame Claude speaking
in foreign language]

[Sebastian speaking
in foreign language]

[Madame Claude speaking
in foreign language]

[Sebastian speaking
in foreign language]

[Madame Claude speaking
in foreign language]

- [Jack] And that's
her in the middle?

[Madame Claude speaking
in foreign language]

- [Sebastien] This is me and
my husband in the middle.

- [Jack] How old was she
when she got married?

[Sebastian speaking
in foreign language]

[Madame Claude speaking
in foreign language]

- [Jack] When Benji went to
go take the national exam,

they found that Simpliste
had inflated his grades

to make it seem like he
was passing when he wasn't.

[Claude speaking in
foreign language]

[Madame Claude speaking
in foreign language]

[Claude speaking in
foreign language]

[Madame Claude speaking
in foreign language]

[Claude speaking in
foreign language]

[gentle music]
[crickets chirping]

- [Jack] I thought that
Haiti School Project was

the only outside group
helping Simpliste.

But then I discovered
that he had assembled

a whole web of NGOs,
each unaware of the
other's existence.

So, like Sebastien said, the
more we pull on the strings,

the more knotted up it gets.

[bird chirping]

- We're an ecumenical
ministry to serve the poor

and to empower local churches
and church-based ministries.

The Divine Shelter School
Network is one of our projects

and in fact was one of our
very first projects in Haiti.

We use the name Divine Shelter

because, in the US, it's a name
that people can understand,

and it has such a
nice ring to it.

- Cross help us
with the payroll.

We have 16 school this year.

They do all the payroll,
and then they the one

in charge of the food program.

[Enselm speaking in
foreign language]

- When I first met
him was two years ago,

and that's when he told us
the story about Villard.

I'm like, "Oh, okay."

We never knew about it.

- [Jack] You never
knew about the school?

- Nope.

- [Jack] How is that possible?

- 'Cause that's the thing,
Simpliste is lying to us.

Simpliste is lying to Tim.

They told us, "Hey, you know,
our school was really bad.

We find some sponsors that
helping us with the building."

We're like, "Okay,
it's a blessing.

We are very happy for you guys."

If you ask me personally,
the problem is Simpliste.

The problem is
Simpliste, you know?

- [Jack] Right.

- And then, I don't
think there's anything

that the people
can do about him.

I think they are afraid of him.

- [Jack] But
Simpliste is a pastor.

- No, he's not.

- [Jack] What are
you talking about?

- He's not.

I know he's not [laughs].

- [Jack] But-

- So, I'm gonna tell
you what I know.

- [Jack] Yeah, please.

- He's not a pastor.

- [Jack] What is he?

- I don't know.

He's a school director.

He's not a pastor.

- [Jack] He made
us think he was,

and he was at the church, too.
- Too bad.

- [Jack] He preached
or whatever.

He got up in front of people.

Was he ever?

- Simpliste was making
a show for you guys.

Simpliste is not a pastor.

- [Jack] Ever?

- I can tell you, on our
mission board, everybody

that is a pastor, and Simpliste
is not one of them [laughs].

- [Jack] Right,
okay, that's clear.

- Okay?
- [Jack] Yeah.

- So.

[crickets chirping]
[birds chirping]

[Enselm speaking in
foreign language]

[translator speaking
in foreign language]

[Enselm speaking in
foreign language]

[hand thudding]

- It's a little bit sad
to be in a situation

where you think
you are doing good,

and it turned out not to
be quite what was expected.

[students speaking
in foreign language]

- You wanna understand people

who take advantage
of other people?

Then, you gotta understand

what are the limits
in that society.

One of our great scholars of
Haiti, Robert Fatton, talks

about la politique du ventre,
politics of the stomach,

which is real [laughs]

and what people will do in
order to save themselves,

help their family, their own
circle because a system is

already set up in which it's
already based upon competition.

[students speaking
in foreign language]

- So, somebody gets an
education, and then what?

Where do they work?

They can't necessarily just go

and apply for, you know,
this plethora of jobs.

So, they have to
create their own job.

They have to make a living,
literally make a living.

And so, in order to
make this living,

sometimes they have
to make choices

that we find really questionable

and that we find
morally objectionable.

But on the other
hand, they need to eat

and also feed their families.

[upbeat music]

[Dr. Mathurin speaking
in foreign language]

[players speaking
in foreign language]

- [Bystander] Looks
like [indistinct].

- They're coming
straight for us.

[feet shuffling]

- That's fine, but can
you turn off the onboard

so it's just one channel?

I came to Haiti because
helping people felt

like it would be so simple.

But that idea was completely
based on my own ignorance.

I had bought into this idea

because that's the
story we tell ourselves

about places like Haiti.

[gentle music]

And that story doesn't really
allow for complications.

- There's a reason
why fairytales are
full of magic bullets,

and magic potions,
and magic cures

because it's fun,
and it's interesting,

and it's wonderful to
live in a fantasy world

where that's true.

There's no fairytale where,
like, Cinderella gets

out of servitude through
a long and complex process

of education, increased
infrastructure,

and the prince realizes
that the economic inequality

in the village is untenable,

that he needs to take
more of his investment

away from financing
fancy balls and start.

It's the most boring
story in the world.

Disney's never gonna make it.

Like, Elton John could not write

a song that would make
that entertaining.

[tool clanging]

[kids speaking in
foreign language]

[ladder clattering]

[Tim exhales]

- We're gonna have
to change the design

to a one-story school,
one story, not two.

We don't have enough money,
and I don't have enough time

to spend here to do
that second level.

That would take way too long.

[villagers speaking
in foreign language]

[Enselm speaking in
foreign language]

[tools clanging]

[Enselm speaking in
foreign language]

[engine humming]
[footsteps plodding]

[metal sheets clattering]

[feet shuffling]

[metal sheets clattering]

[workers speaking
in foreign language]

- Are they all like this?

Hey, [speaking in
foreign language].

They can take it back and
gimme a different one.

And it's rusty.

- [Worker] Okay.
- Okay?

[metal sheets clattering]

Let's call Joe and tell
them we don't want 'em.

We want our money back
'cause they're rusted,

and they're bent.

I'm not paying for that.

[metal sheets clattering]

[Enselm speaking in
foreign language]

- [Jack] What do you think?

Is it gonna happen?

- Well, if Simpliste
was going to get them,

I would be more comfortable.

- [Jack] Right.
- But I don't know.

You know, it's Haiti.

You don't know how
things will happen.

[engine humming]

- I don't know what to do next.

I mean, I'm afraid
to push it now

and have something
else go wrong.

Two things have gone
wrong right now.

The wood's not here, and the
roofing material is fucked up.

[horn blaring]

I'm superstitious like Matt.

There's a third thing
waiting to happen here.

There's something
waiting to happen.

[Tim laughing]

[engines humming]

You know, I didn't come here

to sit around in
Saint-Marc and drink beer.

I mean, not that I
don't enjoy that,

but that's not why I came here.

- [Matt] Wasn't the purpose.

- No, not my purpose.

[Matt speaking in
foreign language]

[Enselm speaking in
foreign language]

- [Tim] Can the
timbers come tomorrow?

- [Matt] I cannot guarantee.

- Somebody gotta give me,

I need to guarantee
somewhere here.

- [Matt] No, I
cannot guarantee you

before I before I meet with him.

- It would be nice if
the both of you had

something staked in this.

You get paid no matter what.

You get paid whether that
material comes or not, right?

In the end, you still
get your school,

and you still have your job.

I'm the one that
pays more money.

I want some blood
outta you two guys.

I wanna piece of you
guys' ass is what I want.

If it doesn't come, I mean,

you guys are guaranteeing
me, but nothing happens.

[book thudding]

I feel like I'm Alexander
the Great conducting

a campaign in Asia Minor

with not enough troops,
no water and food, okay?

- Just forgot that
we are in Haiti.

[Tim laughing]

[Matt speaking in
foreign language]

- It's just like, "Here's
the rich American.

He's got more money,
so he'll pay more

for the school to get done."

And that's what sometimes is

difficult for me, difficult.

[Enselm speaking in
foreign language]

[paper rustling]

[Enselm speaking in
foreign language]

[metal clanging]

- [Volunteer] No,
it was 500 to you.

- And the manager went
to Port-au-Prince,

and the wood was more
expensive than what he knew,

what he thought.

- So, why didn't-
- So, he's-

- Why didn't they answer
their phone all day yesterday

and tell us that?

We could've given
'em more money.

- [Matt] I didn't get an answer.

- [Tim] Pardon?
- I didn't get an answer.

- To why they didn't
answer their phone?

We know how important
the wood is, right?

Tell him don't ever ask me
for anything again, period.

I don't want anyone ever
to ask me for anything

'cause I'm gonna
put the roof on,

and then I'm not coming back.

They can talk to other people,
but I'm tired of the games

that he's been playing with me,

and he knows what
I'm talking about.

[Matt speaking in
foreign language]

[Enselm speaking in
foreign language]

[Matt speaking in
foreign language]

[Enselm speaking in
foreign language]

[Matt speaking in
foreign language]

[Enselm speaking in
foreign language]

- [Tim] I don't have
anything else to say.

[Matt speaking in
foreign language]

[Enselm and Matt speaking
in foreign language]

[Enselm speaking in
foreign language]

[Matt speaking in
foreign language]

[Enselm speaking in
foreign language]

[dramatic music]

[door squeaking]

[door slamming]

[birds chirping]

[crickets chirping]
[dramatic music continues]

- In Haitian folklore, there
are these two characters,

Bouki and Malice, and
Bouki is, you know,

sort of, like, the dumb
slow one, and Malice is

the really smart, witty one.

My mom would say to me,

anytime that I was
sort of, like, ready

to give up on something,
she would say,

"Don't be like Bouki."

Bouki had a 31-day
jail sentence,

and he killed himself on
the 30th day [laughs].

[Jack laughing]

[Fabienne laughing]

[engine humming]
[horn honking]

[metal clanging]

- We're picking
out our metal roof

because what they delivered
was less than acceptable.

[metal sheets clanging]

- [Jack] What's going
on with the wood?

- Let me see, what's
going on with the wood?

[door clanging]

[workers speaking
in foreign language]

- Hmm.
[feet shuffling]

See?

[wood clanking]

You just gotta keep
asking questions.

That's the only way to get
anything done down here.

You know, you can't just
take all the answers you get.

I mean, that's why I
always ask questions.

It pisses people off
lots of times, but.

- How far?

How much can you give them?

I mean, I want to negotiate,

but I want to know
the boundaries.

- [Tim] Whatever works.

- Huh?
- [Tim] Whatever works.

- No.

- [Tim] But you
know, but you know.

You have ideas.

- Okay.

- You knew the deal
before I even said it.

[gate creaking]

[engine humming]

[metal sheets clattering]

[gate clanking]

- [Tim] Puerto Rico?

[workers speaking
in foreign language]

[rock thudding]

[benches clattering]

[metal sheets clanging]

[workers speaking
in foreign language]

[hammer thudding]

[pensive music]

[wood clattering]

[hammers thudding]

[pensive music continues]

[drill buzzing]

[pensive music continues]

[hammer thudding]

[Jilbert speaking
in foreign language]

[hammers thudding]

[metal sheet scraping]

[drill buzzing]

[pensive music continues]

[vocalist singing
in foreign language]

- [Jack] Did he use
the money he made

from the school to
build this house?

[Jilbert speaking
in foreign language]

- [Jack] So, is he
happy right now?

Is he happy to-

[translator speaking
in foreign language]

[Jilbert speaking
in foreign language]

[children singing
in foreign language]

[upbeat music]

[upbeat music continues]

[upbeat music continues]

[MC speaking in
foreign language]

[Tim speaking in
foreign language]

[MC laughing]

[Tim speaking in
foreign language]

[crowd speaking in
foreign language]

[audience applauding]

- Okay, okay, okay, all right.

[Tim speaking in
foreign language]

[crowd speaking in
foreign language]

[audience applauding]

[children speaking
in foreign language]

- Amazing grace,
how sweet the sound

that saved a sinner like me.

I once was lost,
but now I found,

was blind, but now I see.

Thank you for this school.

God bless you.

[audience applauding]

[pensive music]

- I think I probably
could have spent

the money in a better way.

I don't know.

The teachers are
gonna be proud of it.

They're going to get more
students go to their school

because it'll be a new building.

My concern is how the students,

how it will affect
their education.

It's not gonna have any
effect on their education.

Yeah, I thought I could make
a difference [clicks tongue].

Probably not making
any difference here.

Maybe if one student
comes outta here

with some bright ideas to change
things, it'll be worth it.

[birds chirping]
[pensive music continues]

- One of the issues
with projects

that are really all
about creating schools,

what happens inside?

Do you have teachers
who are prepared?

Do you have students who are
able to sit through the day

because they have all
their basic needs met?

We could also think of it as
that the building is temporary.

Just like it was an empty lot,
and then it was half-built,

and then it was built,
it could also crumble

in an earthquake, or
eventually with time,

if nobody cares
for it, fade away.

But the human investment,
that's long lasting.

The building is a bonus.

It's not the thing.

The thing is the people.

[pensive music continues]

[birds chirping]

[fingers tapping]

[phone ringing]

- Recently, Wesley said,
"I've not renewed the contract

with the Villard school

because I don't feel there's
adequate accountability.

And I'd ask you to no
longer fund that school."

So, we said, "Okay."

- [Jack] Can you speak
to the exact support

that you guys gave to Villard
and L'Ecole Bethlehem?

- I'll have to look it up.

- [Jack] You wanna look it up?

- Yeah, hang on a second.
- Yeah.

- Where?

[paper rustling]

[drawer clattering]

The total that we were
funding for Villard School

for 347 students was $22,000,

$70 a student.

- [Jack] Hmm, 'cause
like you said, you know,

you're a mid-size kinda
NGO, which is fairly large.

You deal with, I think
you said, $350 million in-

- Commodities, and 37
million last year in cash.

- [Jack] And so,
the commodities are

all in kind, I'm assuming,

or mostly in kind?
- That's right, yeah,

all donated medicines,

food, hospital equipment,
things like that.

- [Jack] And then, it comes

down to like, literally,
what was it, $22,000?

So, in the big scheme of things,

$22,000 in almost $400
million is not much.

I'm terrible at math,

but I think it's a-
- Yeah, yeah.

- [Jack] Are you ever just like,

"Oh, we'll just give it to 'em."

Like [laughs]-

- Well, but-
- Like, why take it away?

- Yeah.
- I have no stake in this.

I'm just curious.

- Yeah, well in this case, as
you know, this circumstance,

we're working with the Divine
Shelter School Program.

You know, it's a integrated
program of schools

with a common superintendent.

- [Jack] Mm-hmm.

- And if we're gonna show
respect for their leadership,

then we have to
honor their judgment

unless we have really
good reason not to.

And if we really
did, that would call

into question the
whole relationship.

So, for us just to bypass
that as a way of saying,

you know, "We don't
care what you think,"

but we do care what they think.

We're trying to encourage them.

- [Jack] Right.
- Haiti needs leaders.

[pensive music]

- So, you got a structure,

but you don't have the
resource to keep it going.

Right now, the school
is running on fumes,

if I can say so.

[pensive music continues]

[children speaking
in foreign language]

[clothes rustling]
[feet shuffling]

[children speaking
in foreign language]

[door creaking]

[Enselm speaking in
foreign language]

[horns honking]

[pensive music continues]

- There's a certain language
that keeps repeating itself

because that is the
only thing that we know.

We have not
discovered new models

of addressing age-old problems.

[bell ringing]

We haven't fixed our
own school systems here.

What makes us think
that we have the answers

to fix our school
systems somewhere else?

But the answer is not, it's
not just building a school.

It's how do you maintain
this for the long haul?

The fact of the matter
is, when Haitians are able

to control their
destiny, you'll be able

to see systemic change,
and right now they do not.

That control is still within
the international community.

That's just a fact.

[pensive music continues]

[crickets chirping]

- [Jack] It sometimes
feels like it's impossible

to do anything right here.

Everyone is so flawed.

Every good deed is
also somehow bad.

And even me making
this documentary is
part of the problem.

So, maybe the film
I actually made is

how not to build
a school in Haiti.

[children laughing]

[children speaking
in foreign language]

[children laughing]

[pensive music continues]

[birds chirping]

- [Jack] So, can you
say for the camera

just why are you moving?

What's going on here?

- Well, I'm moving
'cause I sold the house,

[Tim laughing]

pretty much divested
of almost everything.

I'm moving to try to see

if I can't live in Haiti for
starters, give it a shot,

plan A, so to speak.

Gonna give it a try and
see if I can handle it.

I signed up for this course.

Did I tell ya, MIT
course, global poverty?

I just started last week.

Course is hard, Jesus.

Said six hours a week.

Shit, I spent six hours
yesterday just trying

to download some of the
videos that you gotta watch.

[Tim laughing]

Anyway, go ahead.

- [Jack] Why are you
taking a course with MIT?

- To learn more about global
economics and this question,

how to best deal with aid.

We really don't ask
all the right questions

and do enough research,

more question asking,
what do you really need,

how best to help you?

[machine whirring]

[metal clanging]

[gate clattering]

[box clattering]

- [Jack] Why'd you
shave your 'stache?

- That's a good question.

You know, it's usually a change
of [laughs] Goddamn, guy.

It's usually a
personality change

or try to change persona
a little bit maybe,

just to go with a
change a bit, yeah.

- [Jack] So, was it a moment
when you shaved your mustache?

Was it like a, "I'm
the new Tim now," or-

- I kept trimming it,
trimming it, and trimming it,

and then I cut half, and
that didn't look very good,

so I had to take it
all off [laughs].

No-
- Was that-

- No moment, no moment.

But I have shaved my beard
in the past for that reason.

Yeah.

- [Jack] A reinvention?

- Yeah, reinvented
instead of, you know,

we can't go west anymore
because there's no more west.

It's full of people.
- [Jack] Mm-hmm.

- That's what people
used to do, you know.

They'd pick up and move.

And it provided a
release for people.

It did allow people to
disperse and get over things,

move on and start again.

So, I'm starting a new life.

[engine revving]
[gravel crunching]

[engine humming]
[birds chirping]

[mellow music]

[vocalist singing
in foreign language]

[vocalist singing
in foreign language]

[vocalist singing
in foreign language]

[vocalist singing
in foreign language]

[vocalist singing
in foreign language]

[vocalist singing
in foreign language]

[vocalist singing
in foreign language]

[vocalist singing
in foreign language]