There is an excellent documentary called Fatal Assistance, directed by Raoul Peck, which shows how foreign aid and the nonprofit/NGO industrial complex have not

There is an excellent documentary called Fatal Assistance, directed by Raoul Peck, which shows how foreign aid and the nonprofit/NGO industrial complex have not helped Haiti. The money often comes with strings attached, and the "experts" think they know better than locals about what Haiti needs, so they build projects that are useless at best, and actively dangerous at worst. The UN was even found spilling untreated sewage into the environment, contributing to a cholera outbreak that killed thousands of Haitians [1]. The point of aid is not to help, but to keep Haiti dependent and poor. As other commenters pointed out, the reason for this is that Haiti was an immensely profitable (and terrifyingly exploitative) slave plantation, and they dared to rebel against their Western colonial oppressors -- and win. They've been punished for it ever since. [1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/05/leaked-un-report-sanitation-haiti-bases-cholera-outbreak https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/05/leaked-un-repo...