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Sunday, September 19, 2010

Life in Devastated Haiti


Nine months after the January 12 earthquake, Haitians still have little relief. Over one and a half million left homeless continue struggling to survive, despite billions in aid raised or pledged. It’s for development, predatory NGOs, not them. That’s the problem, and they suffering as a result, little media attention paid to their plight.

On September 15, Los Angeles Times writer Joe Mozingo headlined, "No plan in sight for Haiti’s homeless," saying:

Where to put them is contentious, reconstruction "hang(ing) on the potentially explosive issue" of who owns the land. For example, pre-quake, tenant farmers used to plant corn and sugar cane on a wealthy family’s 20-acre parcel "below the city’s main transmission lines of the Delmas 33 road".'

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Posted by DotConnector at 08:53

1 comment:

  1. Antonia - Beauty Health Finance and Green Issues Editor19 September 2010 at 20:57

    Hmmmm, I wonder what became of the millions or should I say, billions, of donations the charities in charge of the Haiti relief effort actually received.

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