Yet Another Blow to Haiti, From Hurricane Sandy

[JRLeft]

MEXICO CITY - At the edge of disaster, a few days of rain can be lethal.

On Monday, the scale of damage in Haiti from Hurricane Sandy became evident. Even though the storm's center skirted the country, more than 20 inches of rain fell on Haiti's south and southwest over four days last week, causing at least 52 deaths, tearing out crops and destroying houses.

"We are facing a major crisis," Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe said this weekend after he flew over the regions that had been hit by the storm.

The government said that the homes of as many as 200,000 people had been damaged -on top of almost 400,000 people still homeless from the January 2010 earthquake. "We have a lot of work ahead of us in terms of the aid that we will need to deliver in the days, weeks and months to come," Mr. Lamothe said. "It won't be easy because there are many roads and bridges that have been cut off."

Coming on the heels of Tropical Storm Isaac in August, the latest storm has piled new misfortune on Haiti, as it struggles to recover from the earthquake and the cholera epidemic that broke out 10 months later, which has killed thousands and sickened more than half a million people.

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[sabrina 1]

1. That poor country. And much of its problem appears to come from our interference

there over the centuries.

What happened eg to all of the money donated to Haiti by people all over the world? I know WE wanted any money we donate to go directly to a family or individual who needed it.

After what happened there I will never again donate to any organization which has political ties. I will try to find someone who needs it and give the money directly to them.

Haiti lost 51 people to Sandy so far. It seems not a thing has been done for those people despite all the money donated.

The most good done for Haiti came from South American countries like Venezuela which gave millions of dollars to build infrastructure there. But we hate those countries so we prevent them from doing what they apparently do much better than we do, actually take care of PEOPLE.

RIP to all the victims in Haiti of this latest disaster!

[JRLeft]

2. They need wealthy nations to build that country

or label it inhabitable.