"When I was in Haiti, a 19-year-old American in military fatigues showed up with boxes of latex gloves. His heart was in the right place, but he didn’t really know what he was doing and had a nervous breakdown after picking up an amputated leg when he was asked to clean a hospital’s waste-strewn yard. He went home the next day
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People will be able to help Haiti a long time with the money raised. And it's damned important that the fundraisers capitalized on that blitz of public attention before it was forgotten (as it is now).
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Oxfam did a report on some of these problems back in 2005. Here's my favorite part: For example, in Ghana $100m of World Bank assistance was withheld because the government failed to privatise municipal water. The UK followed suit, ( ... )
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Water is the oil of the third world.
I like my water clean and publicly owned.
But that's me, a crazy liberal....
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Haiti has been desperate for a long long while. Fortunately it never gets to be -40 and make finding shelter with heat a priority. It's bad enough finding water when the river is frozen. The desperation is quite different from the homeless issues I'm used to here.
It's a given that Haiti needs medicine first and foremost, water treatment as well. There have been efforts to provide both. I would think security is further down the list, but seems to me that has been prioritized by those seeking greater control.
Earthquakes destroy structure and infrastructure. It would seem awful silly to try to use the cash on hand for something else.
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