Humanitarian Aftershocks In Haiti Summary

Haiti is a prime example of how human needs in one area of the world are interdependent with social conditions elsewhere in the world. Haiti, for most of its history has been overwhelmed with economic

I argue that while the author does well to argue his thesis in a logical sequence, in the narrative the author fails to include a direct Haitian perspective, which is integral to the readers’ understanding of life in port au prince as they lost far more in the catastrophe. Furthermore he fails in his attempt to provide a solution that is economically suitable and thus dismissed short-term models that could benefit the population. Finally blinded by journalistic ambitions I believe that his excessive coverage of his breakthrough story on the cholera out break overshadows the earthquake story, as it becomes the main focus toward the end.

Though the earthquake happened quickly, the lasting impact and trauma remained. In an article from the Wall Street Journal, Luhnow and Dugan stated that following the event many people went searching for psychological support and aid instead of physical (2010). After having buildings tumble and fall onto people, many suffered from PTSD and survivors guilt; children were the most emotionally traumatized, and there was a fundamental lack of aid for facing psychological traumas endured by so many (Luhnow & Dugan, 2010). As a society, an increase in crime and violence is on the rise; Haitians had no defined structure in communities, and most established norms

Earthquakes have afflicted the world since its inception. The sudden release of energy from volcanoes or displacing of earth plates can result in disasters of extreme magnitude. These usually naturally occurring phenomenon have been responsible from wiping out entire towns throughout history and until today continue to produce major loss of life and infrastructure. It can take years for a city or country to recover from a major event of this kind and when a third world country is involved, the result is usually exponentially worse than in a developed country. In the past decades Japan, Chile and Haiti have suffered the devastation an earthquake produces. This document will concentrate in Haiti, a small country in the Caribbean. On

A majority of Haiti’s economy relies on foreign aid, with over half of its annual budget coming from outside sources. In 2010 a 7.0 magnitude earthquake hit Haiti which inflicted $7.8 billion in damage which caused the GDP to contract by 5.4%. Foreign aid skyrocketed and about $13.5 billion in donations and pledges flooded in with 75% of them coming from donor nations and the other 25% coming from private charities or organizations. Even 5 years after the earthquake, the situation hasn’t improved. Haitians are still dependent on foreign donations to live. The heavy dependence on donations makes up for Haiti’s low participation in the global economy, which is also negative. Besides the foreign aid, Haiti exports very few products -- with annual exports that are about a third of Jamaica's exports. The United States, a country that has trade

Out of all nations that publish water sanitation statistics, Haiti is the only country in which there are more individuals today without clean water than there were over twenty years ago (Gelting, Bliss, Patrick, Lockhart, & Handzel, 2013, p. 665). This is largely due to the water crisis occurring in Haiti over the last century. Haiti’s struggles can be derived from the nation’s inability to withstand and recover from natural disasters, economic instability, societal wealth discrepancy, and a cholera outbreak. These differing facets can all be analyzed through the natural, social, and political perspectives in order to demonstrate the severity of the Haitian water crisis, the failure of current attempts at resolution, and the need for further

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.

In 2010 Haiti was hit with a 7.0 Magnitude Earthquake the biggest one on the Earth to that day. Haiti is one of the poorest places that we know of and they always seem to have the worse luck. The people in Haiti were hurt by this, but they knew that they had to figure things bout and build their town back up. When it first happened they were hurting and weren’t sure

A few years ago, an earthquake struck Haiti causing complete destruction. Earlier last month, a hurricane struck Haiti causing another wave of terror. An already hurt country has been knocked back down. In response to this devastation, the United States is working with the United Nations to help Haiti recover. Money, supplies, and teams are being sent to bring Haiti back up to its feet. However, despite these actions, there are arguments as to whether or not the US is helping enough. Contrary to what some may believe, the US is giving enough aid to Haiti for the recovery process.

The devastating 2010 earthquake left Haiti in ruins. This meant Haiti would mostly rely on foreign aids to stand back to its feet. Most didn’t hesitate to come in to assist mostly the USA and other foreign aids which donated over $5 billion to help Haiti. However, so many questions have been raised on to how well these funds were used. This report includes facts to show how the funds were voluntarily misappropriated by a number of players including the foreign aids (both domestic and foreign), NGOs as well as the administration. This report also gives a summary of the election that happened the same year. This serves to demonstrate how the election was full of malpractices and fraud. The leaders elected especially the president and his government were not good enough in leading the nation to stability.

Haiti is a good example of a nation that suffered from very negative results from compassionate aid and that now has the tools and applies these toward sustainable development. As learned on week 2, Haiti had been able to produce their own rice, but the constant pressure from the International Monetary Fund and the United States to restructure their economy and lower tariffs, collapsed the rice production. The negative results from this collapse were seen after the earthquake, when Haiti’s economy also collapsed, there was not money to buy imported food, and there was no sustainability in the country, since there was no local crop to provide food. After the terrible mistakes from the United States and Haiti, the latter has been able to put

In 2010, a gigantic earthquake -reaching a 7.0 range- shook Haiti. Now Haiti may not have been a huge area, but it was “overpopulated... which [as a result] was a factor in the large number of people killed” and left several more left homeless and injured (Wilentz). Of course, this sort of tragedy did not go unknown throughout the world and several different cooperations from different countries fled to Haiti; offering to lend a helping hand. One group, who broadcast themselves to be the main helpers to this case was the Clinton Foundation. At sight of this, the Haitians were initially relieved. They believed that things were finally starting to look up.

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.

The thesis will be divided into multiple parts. Part I will closely looks at specific NGOs, what they are and their missions. Part II will look at the extent of NGO marketing and its audience. This will help the readers understand what it is that attracts the prospective interns and employees to become part of bigger organizations. Part III of the paper will analyze the data collected from individuals. The data will be closely analyzed and will not only give me insight on the day to day practices of NGOs but how it impacts the individuals who are depended on such organizations. On the broader spectrum the methodology section will help answer the thesis question. Section IV will reason out why there is an NGO failure on the publics’ eyes by looking at world

Knowing that poverty and disaster risks go hand in hand, it was wise on World Vision to implement objectives that would focus of both DRR and poverty reduction collectively. These objectives could not have been done by just supplying aid and needed resources to the damaged cities. There is a fine line between supplying aid and help. Being in such a traumatic event, it completely broke apart communities into weaker and, even more, vulnerable pieces. In retrospect, simply supplying aid through resources to these broken pieces would have done more harm, as it would deepen the most vulnerable and poorest communities’ dependency on foreign aid. Any sense of upward movement of development and prosperity— gone. World Vision centered its projects on community involvement in order to provide proper help— help to create network systems of support, help to educate people on problem risk awareness, help to make use of available resource found in the populations, help to develop and put back those vulnerable pieces back into well-developed societies, help that would allow Honduras to prosper from.