Ghetto Green, Ghetto Clean (Excerpt), by Steeve Colin

Owning Our Future-Haitian Perspectives in Film

Director and Videographer: Steeve Colin

Additional Videography: Ralph Thomassaint Joseph, Sound: Wilson Therrier,

Production Assist: Jude Stanley Roy and Evens Louis, Editor: Yrvelt Lamour

Urban activists bring the rural Haitian tradition of the Konbit, shared labor, to the country’s most notorious ghetto. Neighborhoods and young people, divided by gangs and extreme neglect, create urban gardens and clean up the slum through a locally-led initiative.

Steeve Colin’s passion is participatory community development. In the Cite Soleil ghetto he works as a social engineer, specializing in project development, implementation and communications. He uses photography, and now filmmaking, to document the positive and negative impact of development projects in his community.

Watch the full film here: https://vimeo.com/248217147