The world is becoming more of a global village every day as thousands of people living in one part of the world move to other parts to live and work. For Americans, most of whom trace their heritage to some other place of the globe, this mobility and immigration create the phenomenon of Americans having very close familial, social and professional ties to other people and places in the world. One such place is Haiti. Gabrielle Griggs of Hemingway is a native of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, who has lived in the United States for eight years. Griggs’ niece, Nehemie Desulme’, also of Port-au-Prince, is visiting her. On the current edition of Insight, Bhakti Larry Hough interviews the two woman about their dual love of America and their homeland, the anxiety they feel when there are political upheavals or natural disasters that affect their relatives and friends in their native land, and the state of Haiti since the 2010 earthquake that killed thousands of people.
You can hear this program on Radio Baha'i, 90.9 FM, Monday, September 10th, at 10:00 AM, 7:00 PM, and midnight.
