Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere with 80% of the population living under the poverty line and 55% in abject poverty. The majority of the population depends upon the agricultural sector, which remains vulnerable to damage from frequent natural disasters, exacerbated by the country’s widespread deforestation and the tropical storms in 2008 which severely damaged the transportation, infrastructure and agricultural sectors.  Today the Haitian people are scattered everywhere in the world, looking for a better life.  It is day after day living, fighting to get food to survive. Haiti suffers from high inflation, a lack of investment because of insecurity and limited infrastructure. Most Haitians live in small, often remote villages or isolated settlements with no access to electricity, clean water or social services. Some education is offered by church and other charitable organizations, but the distances that children must walk are miles to attend school;  a large number of people are dependent on aid agencies for food supplies.  The small number of workers can only expect to earn less than US $3 a day, hardly enough for food and other necessities. For the majority, however, they must scrape for some sort of living.