Also the literacy rates are low, Haiti needs help until the government is able sustain the people in this country. To begin, Haiti has a very low annual income compared to other countries in the world. The Gross Domestic Product in Haiti in 2013 is $8.459 billion dollars. This should have ranged from $30,000 to $17 trillion. Also the country is very over crowded, in 2013 the population recorded 10.32 million people.
The Haitian government estimates that 230,000 people died, about 300,000 were injured and 1 million were made homeless out of a population of 10 million. 250,000 buildings were destroyed or badly damaged. For any country, this would have been a major disaster. However, as a very poor nation, Haiti didn’t have the resources of money to help themselves, therefore, the relied heavily on international aid. On Tuesday 17 January 1995 at 5:46, the Hyogo-ken Nanbu earthquake hit Kobe, Japan, and it was not only powerful (7.2 magnitude on the Richter scale), but with the epicentre only 20 km southwest
Since the braceros move from one plantation to another, they cannot be accused of being enslaved. However, the average income for a Haitian worker is $1.00 USD per day. Since Haitian workers really cannot work within their own country because of the paltry income level, it can be pointed out that the Haitian laborers are truly not free. If the Haitians have not experienced enough hardship due to their poor economic conditions, the earthquake was sure to further cripple their abilities to regain financial stability. I am astounded over the fact that this assignment coincides with the current senate measure of bill 1070 as well as the tragedies that occurred with the earthquake in Haiti.
That disaster has left millions without homes or any possessions to their names, not including the countless lives lost and their families. These people are in desperate need of assistance for the recovery of their country. The United States has jumped at the opportunity to offer charity and help to the people of Haiti from thousands of miles away. From fundraisers to government help, Haiti is receiving charitable assistance from people the inhabitants do not, and probably will never, know. Charity is not limited to those recovering from a “natural” disaster.
In the past two years the service has been defunct in its payment to the tune of $11 billion dollars. No other organization, private or government owned has this requirement. The real underlying problem here is not the Postal Service’s inability to reduce expense but Congressional inaction to address Pre-retiree health care coverage which is causing the Postal service to post loss of revenue for the past couple of years. This inaction has hindered the Postal Service’s plans to reform, and become profitable. By understanding the problem one can see that it is not the Postal Service fault for losing revenue.
None of the first Haitians diagnosed with the new syndrome had ever been to Africa; most had never met an African. But many did have histories of sexual contact with North Americans. In a 1984 paper published in a scholarly journal, the Haitian physician Jean Gurin and colleagues revealed that 17% of their patients reported a history of sexual contact with tourists from North America. These exchanges involved the exchange of money, too, and so sexual tourism which inevitably takes place across steep grades of economic inequality was a critical first step in the introduction of HIV to Haiti” (Paul Farmer). “The disease HIV/AIDS is very present today in Haiti due to poverty, mass poverty, the lack of almost every necessity—clean water and shoes, medicine and food” (Kidder.
(United Nations, 2013). The third and final criterion that must be met for inclusion on this list is the economic vulnerability of the country based on indicators such as natural disasters that the country has been unable to recover from, trade related issues that negatively effect the economy, remoteness of the country and the size of the population. The country must also not have a population of greater than 75 million people (United Nations, 2013). The country of Haiti has been in crisis due to war, civil
In light of the country’s disparity, the natives have managed to survive years of starvation, inadequate health care, massive inflation, unstable leadership for the country, and destruction by the very forces setup to aid and protect them. Deemed as the poorest country of the western hemisphere, Haiti is fed up with lack of success from its present political leaders and their so called reform plans, but all the blame does not fall on its current political leaders. One must look at Haiti’s political history and its past occupants to understand its current situation. The original spelling of Haiti is “Ayiti” until the black mulattoes modified it in 1804[?]. That year was the year Haiti also received its independence.
Two news articles one by Boston Globe [ (Earthquake in Haiti, 2010) ] and the other by CNN [ (7.0 quake hits Haiti; 'Serious loss of life' expected, 2010) ] have been summarized describing the damage that the earthquake entailed on the poor nation. The third section describes a view point on how the major governments turned a blind eye on this disaster after confirming initial donations of up to $5.3. It is estimated that only about one-tenth of the donations pledged to help Haiti overcome this disaster actually arrived. One of articles published on wordpress.com website gives a clear picture of how the empty promises were never fulfilled [ (Haiti – What Happened to All the Money?, 2010) ]. The last section describes the progress Haiti has made after the earthquake and what has been the recovery plan.
The mega hurricane displaced millions and killed over 1,800 people. The irony of the hurricane come from the impact it had on New Orleans. The preparation for the hurricane in New Orleans was inadequate, people were not ordered to evacuate until less than a day before hurricane Katrina made landfall which lead to numerous