Haiti 's Recovery Of Haiti

In 2010 the country of Haiti experienced a 7.0 magnitude earthquake and many lives were lost and buildings are slowly being rebuilt today. Through the years after this disaster, many countries from around the world have come to its aid in rebuilding.

Illness and disease along with poverty still plague Haiti today. The effort to try and recover from the most recent earthquake tragedy has Haitians concerned. The conditions that they have endured in the past just to survive are worse than the conditions brought on by the earthquake. Some Haitian natives feel the Government is moving a bit slow in cleaning up and getting

The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster is an inside look into the realities behind international aid and intervention. The book answers the question of whether or not international efforts in Haiti really benefited the nation in the long term. The book argues that the international community failed in their efforts to rebuild Haiti due to their mismatched military approaches, failed monetary pledges and how the how billions of dollars were ineffective, having served only short term needs instead of, rebuilding solid foundations and institutions that would serve as the first step toward sustainable development.

The Republic of Haiti has a unique and vibrant culture. It was once hailed as the "Pearl of the Antilles" for being the wealthiest colony in the world. This small Latin American island tells a story of slaves enduring resistance to the some of the most dominant forces abroad. In 1804, Haiti became the first free black republic and the second post-colonial country in the Americas. However, the days of being the wealthiest colony have since passed. Haiti is now considered to be the most impoverished country in the western hemisphere. The proud history of this country is overshadowed by alarming rates of poverty, violence, and inequality. This island nation’s government has been plagued with numerous military staged coups and misfortunes. I

The January 12, 2010 Haiti Earthquake caused an enormous destruction in the Caribbean nation. Hospitals and government buildings collapsed along with an unbelievable amount of homes. Tens of thousands of people were killed, and many more were wounded. The disaster added more misery to people already struggling to get by with everyday life. Haiti is one of the poorest nations in the world. The January 12 quake demolished almost every major building in Port-au-Prince, Haiti's capital. About 5,000 schools in the city were destroyed or damaged. Throughout Haiti, more than 220,000 people were killed, and more than 1 million were left homeless. A few days after the quake, the number of survivors stood at 121 as hopes of finding more became

In order to understand Haiti we must first put ourselves in their shoes. At one stage or another, every man, woman, or child will be faced with at least one issue that is now happening in Haiti. The issues involving Haiti has been a popular topic for the past two years. Since January twelfth two-thousand and ten. There are many factors which influenced the development of Haiti. Many people have abandoned Haiti over the past years. They have also given up hope for Haiti. Haiti is heralded by economic issues both political and social, foreign issues, military issues (minustah), presidential issues, and the recent earthquake. I plan to explain each of these factors in detail and give

The story of Haiti’s healthcare system is unfortunately tied all too closely to disaster, both man-made and nature-born. This paper will briefly discuss the pre-2010 earthquake healthcare environment in Haiti as the uncertainty that exists provides little opportunity to provide a reasoned understanding of its current national healthcare status.

The government in Haiti has been overwhelmed over the last two centuries with a plethora of

After the slave rebellion, lasting from 1791-1804, Haiti won its independence from European dictatorship in 1804. Two hundred+ years later, Haiti’s governmental assembly now lies within the voice of the people; the citizens have the power to elect their representatives based on the popular vote. Similar to the US, Haiti is governed by three branches of government: Executive, Legislative and Judicial. The vision of the “new” Haiti would be a strong, yet fair government; the intention was to protect the citizens’ freedoms while preventing governmental abuses of power. Although the government has implemented a more fair system, social relations remain unbalanced. Haiti's most blatant social disparities lie in race and in the disproportionate dispersal of wealth. The

The Republic of Haiti is located in the western hemisphere located between the Caribbean Sea and Atlantic Ocean. This mountainous landscape occupies a western portion of the island of Hispaniola that it shares with the Dominican Republic. Haiti is marked with fertile valleys, mountain ranges, plateaus, and dozens of small streams and rivers. Its tropical climate tendencies are hot and humid, consisting of heavy rainfall and reoccurring natural disasters. Its location near the center of the hurricane belt contributes to these storms in addition to flooding, earthquakes, and occasional droughts. Mostly residing in urban areas, the Haitian population mainly consists of Africans while the majority of others are of mulatto decent. The

On January 12, 2010 on of the world’s deadliest earthquakes struck Haiti. In his book, Humanitarian Aftershocks in Haiti, Mark Schuller analyzes the presence of humanitarian aid agencies following the disaster. He discusses the impacts the aid had on the environment, development and globalization of Haiti.

Although the role of disasters such as the 2010 earthquake in Haiti did act as a catalyst for transformation, it was somewhat limited. To some extent, the question of scale comes in place when transformation at one particular level or a sector of operations support resilience at another scale (Pelling & Manuel-Navarrete 2011). Put it differently, the problems associated with being scale-dependent is the issue of linking the discrete levels down from formal institutional hierarchies to informal systems like community activism and contemporary social networks (Prager 2010). In some cases, resilience can also result to the desire of only reinforcing status quo by responding to disruptions outside of the social ladder (Cretney 2014). Similarly,

Also experiencing corruption, criminal violence, and a weak political system, what Haiti lacks more is a functioning economy (Carment & Samy, 2014). Haiti has very few natural resources, lacks the stability and development to encourage foreign investments, and struggles with extreme inequality amongst its citizens (de Blij, et al., 2014). Haiti’s GDP has had little if any growth or development in the last ten years (Carment & Samy, 2014), and according to the World Bank (2018), Haiti is still the poorest state in the Western Hemisphere. To make matters worse Haiti has experienced a number of environmental disasters which would upset a developed country, no less a country that already lacks security and development. Within two years Haiti experienced 4 cyclones, along with a devastating earthquake which killed over 300 000, and displaced well over a million residents. Again in 2016, Haiti was hit with another devastating hurricane. Although, Haiti suffers from a weak government and corruption, the Haitian economy is even more unstable. A very different picture than the political warfare that Somalia has experienced for the last 25 years. These two modern day examples demonstrate how unclear a single definition is in helping outsiders to understand individual state

January 12th, 2010 Haiti faced a catastrophic earthquake that shook the whole country apart and had left the country in ruins. The world looked at Haiti as a nation in a desperate situation to revive itself to the country that it was before. But few have realized that Haiti was already in a place of disorder and as an underdeveloped country it has been struggling to succeed as a nation. From the way that Haiti handles itself, it is evident that this nation is not striving enough tobecome a developed country by taking necessary actions to improve the countries resources and itslifestyle. With the political structure being erratic and facing environmental issues like nothaving proper structural buildings, Haiti has been hurt deeply after the earthquake. This showsthat Haiti presents no urgency or immediate action to further improve its global status. Haiti still needs the support of developed countries such as the United States, to aid its way to have consistency in the political, social, and environmental structure of the country. The idea thatdeveloped countries need to show their global responsibility in reconstructing Haiti to pursuesuccess puts the pressure on developed countries to take actions. This is inexcusable as theearthquake is overshadowing Haiti’s problems within the nation, which has not been brought out.

The response for the natural disasters that hit Haiti in 2010 was slow. Haiti improved the water supply of 340,000 people, supplied drugs to five cholera treatment facilities, provided free medical care to 39,000, and gave tools and seeds to help 23,000 people in farming households to help support themselves. These services not only improved shelters for 34,000 people but gave information to 116,000 people about disaster preparation. Volunteers ran literacy classes for 60,000 vulnerable women to help them support themselves and their families; additionally, they helped defend 25,000 residents from forced eviction. However, 3.5 years after the earthquake, the nation is still struggling with recovery with hundreds of thousands of people still living in tent camps.