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Haiti - an unfiltered report
Topic Started: Feb 20 2010, 06:50 PM (892 Views)
Rusty Dog
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I couldn't get the link above to work.
I did find it here: http://www.montereyherald.com/ci_16666594?source=most_viewed
Maybe that will help
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Rusty Dog
Nov 29 2010, 01:31 PM
I couldn't get the link above to work.
I did find it here: http://www.montereyherald.com/ci_16666594?source=most_viewed
Maybe that will help
Just one more reason why we don't need the UN. Everything they touch seems to he** in a handbasket.
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The Haiti earthquake occurred over two years ago, 12 January 2010

What does future hold for Haiti?
March 1, 2012


What is to become of Haiti?

Now that the second anniversary of the devastating earthquake there has come and gone and much of Port-au-Prince still lies in ruins, will the world shrug, hang up its helping hand and go about its business, leaving Haiti to wallow in its Third World status?

Not if Jim and Patty Meyer have anything to say about it.

With support from their congregation at Wheatland Salem Church, the Naperville couple have made many trips to Haiti, before the earthquake and since, including five visits in 2011.

"Of course, it's not improving fast enough for me, or for the people there," said Patty Meyer, who returned from her most recent trip on Feb. 21. "I'd say they go in waves of hope."

While there has been some progress in housing construction, she estimates there are probably 40,000 tent cities remaining.

"They almost become a city in itself, to survive," Meyer said.

A tent city established in 2010 had expanded its presence by the time she saw it again last year, when it included a barbershop and a vendor selling clean water.

"They learn quickly that if they don't establish their own commerce, they can't make it," she said. "I think they realize they aren't going to be leaving any time soon, because no one's coming to help them."

The earthquake turned Haiti into a nation of nongovernmental organizations. Most of the 12,000 NGOs that paratrooped in to help have skedaddled, the work they started left unfinished.

"Haiti was really sexy right after the earthquake,” said Tim Morton, project coordinator for the relief organization Operation Blessing International. "A lot of NGOs were made by the earthquake. A lot of new programs were started. But where are they now? A lot of them just ran out of money or desire and they just peeled out."

About 200 NGOs affiliated with Feed My Starving Children remain on the ground, however. Mandi Cherico, a media relations associate for the hunger relief organization that has a packing site in Aurora, said about 40 percent of the meals assembled by volunteer groups at the agency's five Midwestern sites wind up in Haiti. Some 120 million pounds of food has been sent to the island nation since 2010, she said, including 47 million pounds shipped during 2011.

"What we hear from our partners is that the need is still great," Cherico said. "And the fact that the earthquake destroyed whatever infrastructure was there means the reconstruction effort continues to need food."...snipped

http://napervillesun.suntimes.com/news/10938563-418/what-does-future-hold-for-haiti.html


Bless those who are still helping.

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