Haiti Earthquake | October 26, 2005 | Comment on this video (7)

Feeding Haiti

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Laura Ling travels with an armed UN convoy to deliver a precious cargo of beans and oil to women and children in Haiti.
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    Green,   On Current TV,   Intro,   FOODIES: UNITE,   5 more
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    On Current TV,  Intro,  Poverty,  Outro,  6 more
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    lauraling Starring, lauraling Producer, jkelly Editor, more
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7 comments // Feeding Haiti // Video

  • JRameau
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      JRameau  

    • This Is Just so Troubling to Me... My Parents are Haitian and I think its just so sad How quickly a country can just change drastically in a matter of years... If this continues the country once known as Haiti will never more be what it used to be...

    • 2 years ago
  • DanConklin
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  • beenn15
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      beenn15  

    • haiti's situation has been ignored partly because it is not a rogue nation, it doesn't present a threat to US security... yet.
      it always saddens to see how much resources the international community are willing to spend to feed a few children every day. They'd be doing a better job if they just help build the infrastructure. Haiti shouldn't have to import rice and beans, they can grow that given the right infrastructure and knowledge. We're wasting our time and money cooking bowl or rice a day. Just look at the bigger picture, bypass the government and build the roads and provide enough electricity and then everything else will fall in place.
      if only i were Bill Gates...

    • 2 years ago
  • LaurenCerre
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  • MitchKoss
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      MitchKoss  

    • How did Haiti get to be a place where you need armored personnel carriers to protect a convoy of beans? Usually, the public can rightfully expect that a news story says something about what can be done to remedy a situation, but with Haiti, answers don't seem easy... All you can say is that the vast majority of Haitians who are living in dire poverty seemed to have lost their stake in society... Every day in Haiti's capital, Port au Prince, I jogged the 200 yards of road in front of our hotel's gates, being careful to stay in the fire control of the armed hotel guards. Down and back for 45 minutes or so. The road was lined with the walls of the living compounds of the tiny percentage of Haitians who are affluent. Sometimes, the gates of a compound would swing open, guards with shotguns would stand ready, and an armored SUV would swoop in, and the gates would close. Reminiscent of Kabul, Afghanistan, but way closer to U.S. shores...

    • 4 years ago
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