A New Start For A Devastated Country

It’s been six months since the 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti and decimated buildings and infrastructures across the country. It has been said that over $2billion dollars have been raised since the earthquake to help the people in Haiti rebuild, but the reconstruction for the devastated country is predicted to take years of organization and reconstruction and funding form many private charities to help the devastated country get back on its own two feet.

One of the private charities that is helping Haiti fund the reconstruction, is the Clinton bush Haiti fund, being run by former president George W. Bush and bill Clinton and was created at the behest of president Obama .The organization oversee the CBHF through their respective nonprofit organization, the William J. Cliton foundation and communities of taxes. One hundred percent of the donations made to the Clinton Foundation go directly to recovery efforts. Ninety-nine percent of the donations made to the Communities Foundation of Texas go directly to relief efforts an haiti.

Haiti Food Distribution

After the quake, many people were left homeless and foodless. Desperate for their next meal, they went out on the streets of PART DU PRINCE lauding business and taking whatever they could carry back home to their friends and family members who were dying on a daily basis form starvation. Many people began crowding up outside the police station desperate for supplies of any kind. As people begun crowding up outside the police station, officers began beating people back until the barricades that were in place to protect the facility came crushing down under the weight of the desperate crowd, people fell into the streets and into the sidewalk until they got their hands on what they was in search for, which was the medical supplies and the food that was giving to them by the aid workers to pass out.
Even well established aid groups continue to struggle to distribute food, one prime example of an aid group that had issues with the crowd was the Worldview aid group whose volunteers were seen putting boxes of food back into their trucks after a crowd became frustrated when the aid workers ask the Haitian people to fill out forms before they received the food.
Aid agency Plan International's idea was that the Haitians would divide up the rice, or barter it for other supplies relief groups have created almost as many different ways to distribute food as there are improvised survivors' camps in Port-au-Prince. This was just one example of how aid distribution problems were solved after the earthquake.

HAITI FUTURE

After the quake, the epidemics and major disturbances have been avoided. This is due to the major influx of U.N troops and U.S troop that were placed on the ground to secure the land in the Haitian people. Also, health care for the country is better than before because of the influx of medical supply’s that came in from countries all over the world. Also the Red Cross donated temporary shelters to the people, who lost their homes during the quake, which many people consider a blessing. The troops that came from all over the world have helped many injured Haitians and are doing in outstanding job caring for the sick in feeding them as well. Even through many Haitian lost their homes during the quake, they didn’t lose hope.

President Obama also did his share on helping out the American Red Cross with rising money for the devastated country, by setting up a textiphone for the survivors of the earthquake, where people all over the donated money to the red cross-which raised over one million dollars within the first 24 hours. The money raised for the Red Cross is going to be distributed in many sectors such as, food, water, shelter, and medical supplies.

Thousands of troops were put to place to help protect the huge relief operation in Haiti from marauding looters as tens of thousands of earthquake survivors waited desperately for promised food and medical care. Gangs of looters still prowled demolished streets of downtown Port-au-Prince filching goods from destroyed shops with little police presence, but some signs of normality returned as street sellers emerged with fruit and vegetables.



The people of Haiti thank God for all of His Blessings that He had provided for them in this time of tragedy!

After the Haiti quake, UN mission chief, aid workers, business leaders and half of the Haiti population was in a race to save many of the Haiti people who were still buried alive under piles of rubble. In a sense, Haiti is one major test case for the international aid community and development agencies. The scale of January earthquake, which was a disaster for the already poor country with a weak government and private sector, has highlighted all the well –known pros and cons of the international aid effort in Haiti, which now seem to run much of the country and economy.
Before the quake Haiti, was on their way up, with private investments coming is from investors such as the Bill Gates. New buildings were being built, and UN had help to control criminal gangs with their security watch, which helped the crime rate go down.
The cons begin after the quake when one of the buildings that held many of Haiti’s most dangerous criminals was shaken to rubble. Many of the inmates escaped and returned to their lives of crime, which only made things worse for people who were suffering from the devastation of the earthquake. The country weak government which was eluding the hard own money people earned on a daily basis by taking extravagant in expensive trips to the Caribbean’s with the hard earn money people worked for it’s a sati see. Thank god for the U.S.