By Monika Kalra Varma and Loune Viaud
Labadee located of the northern coast of Haiti
SINCE JANUARY’S devastating earthquake in Haiti, well-meaning experts have proposed an abundance of short-term and long-term recovery solutions. They ask why aid delivery has been so slow, why previous development plans for Haiti have rarely been successful, and why billions of dollars in funding over decades have not improved conditions for the most impoverished people in our hemisphere.
BY JOEL BRINKLEY; MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE
Dozens of governments and aid groups are scheduled to meet at the United Nations later this month to pledge millions, perhaps billions, in assistance to Haiti. My advice to many of those donors: Stay home.
Sure, everyone wants to help rebuild Haiti and finally turn the country into a thriving, self-sustaining state. But after decades of effort, many of the donors themselves have concluded that it’s a Sisyphian task without end.
By Michelle May
Earthquake survivors in a tent hospital in Haiti. (Photo by Michelle May)
I recently spent a week in Port au Prince, Haiti, helping in a tent hospital set up at the airport.
When I arrived back in San Francisco, I wrote about my experience in Haiti on my blog and posted pictures I had taken. I also posted photos on my Facebook profile, including images of smiling children who had just been operated on, long lines of patients, and even some “fun” photos, such as a few of me letting off some steam with a brigade of Portuguese firefighters at their camp.
What if the crumbled remains of Haiti could be recycled and used to repair and rebuild a brand new city? That’s what one company, Independence Recycling of Florida, is proposing as a reconstruction process. Economically, it makes sense to use the existing material on site rather than having to import material to the island nation, and there are also significant environmental benefits to not sending all that waste to the landfill or using virgin materials to rebuild Haiti.
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By Robert Paul Reyes
Pat Robertson Calls Quake ‘blessing in Disguise’
“A massive earthquake has hit the coast of Chile, killing dozens of people, flattening buildings and triggering a tsunami.
The 8.8-magnitude quake, the country’s largest in 25 years, shook the capital Santiago for a minute and half at 3:34am (6:34am GMT) today.”
BY PAUL COLLIER
Aid groups in the earthquake-battered country are inefficient and unaccountable. Luckily, there’s a solution.
In the outpouring of generosity since Haiti’s earthquake last month, donors, investors, and charities have all made big moves to help. Key countries pledged assistance at a January summit in Montreal. At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, which fortuitously convened the private sector just a few weeks after the quake, there was also a new seriousness toward unlocking economic opportunities. Even individuals — nearly half of U.S. households — have donated to the Haitian relief and reconstruction effort in unprecedented amounts.
By Jerry Wei
Last week, I dropped by Sterling Memorial Library to return a Borrow Direct book. As I walked up to the circulation desk, I noticed a large cardboard box. Inside were two pairs of shoes, neatly packed in a plastic bag. Supported by the Yale Office of Diversity and Inclusion, the Yale African American Affinity Group, Asian Network at Yale, Yale Latino Networking Group and the Yale Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Affinity Group, the national aid organization Soles4Souls hopes to give one million shoes to “aid in the recovery and rebuilding process” in Haiti.
More than one million people were left homeless by the quake
The real mess in Haiti hasn’t happened yet. Haiti has been a country without a functioning government for decades. The devastation of the earthquake has been exacerbated by the fact that there was no regulatory body overseeing the construction of buildings. As a result, homes, schools, hospitals and even government buildings were constructed without any concern for the quality of materials, workmanship or the safety of the occupants.
Haiti postal code “HT6110″ “Port-au-prince Capital of Haiti”
“Zip Code” is a United States of America thing only… (Or U.S. territories or bases etc.) other countries use “postal codes”
Haiti uses four-digit postal codes, always prefixed with “HT”. The first digit represents the department; the first two, the arrondissement; the first three, the commune.
HT1110 CAP HAÏTIEN HT5310 LASCAHOBAS
HT1210 ACUL DU NORD HT5410 CERCA-LA-SOURCE
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