I hope you enjoyed the lightheartedness of my last post. This one isn’t going to be half so pleasant. I’m sure you know about the earthquake in Haiti. It has been all over the news and media. The earthquake hit with a catastrophic magnitude of 7.0. As of February 12th, an estimated 3 million people were affected by the earthquake and its continuing aftershocks. Between 217,000 and 230,000 people died, thousands more were wounded and approximately 1 million people homeless.
Many efforts have been made to help them but is this all the Haitians need? The reasons so many are homeless and wounded is because of the poor structures. Houses are made out of random materials, whatever is handy. What’s more, the reason the houses are bad and the county can’t provide relief for itself because Haiti is so poor. It is the poorest country in the Americas. Most Haitians live on less than $2 a day.
The U.S.A. convinced the Haitian government to lower the tariff on imported food, particularly US rice. This caused a major problem in agriculture. Now Haitians buy imported rice instead of Haitian grown rice because it is much cheaper. That discourages all natural agriculture because there isn’t a market for it. Now Haiti can’t even grow it’s own food.
What is the future for this country? Only 52.4% of the nation is literate. Is the future generation going to care about their education when their primary needs are still unfulfilled? What will the futire hold when the next generation will not be able to get specialized jobs that will enable them to help their country? This among other things is why we need to help Haiti and it's people, so they can have a future of something other than poverty and sickness.
Many efforts have been made to help them but is this all the Haitians need? The reasons so many are homeless and wounded is because of the poor structures. Houses are made out of random materials, whatever is handy. What’s more, the reason the houses are bad and the county can’t provide relief for itself because Haiti is so poor. It is the poorest country in the Americas. Most Haitians live on less than $2 a day.
The U.S.A. convinced the Haitian government to lower the tariff on imported food, particularly US rice. This caused a major problem in agriculture. Now Haitians buy imported rice instead of Haitian grown rice because it is much cheaper. That discourages all natural agriculture because there isn’t a market for it. Now Haiti can’t even grow it’s own food.
What is the future for this country? Only 52.4% of the nation is literate. Is the future generation going to care about their education when their primary needs are still unfulfilled? What will the futire hold when the next generation will not be able to get specialized jobs that will enable them to help their country? This among other things is why we need to help Haiti and it's people, so they can have a future of something other than poverty and sickness.
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