Thriving black markets in Haiti aid
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- treewolf39
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International efforts to help Haiti recover are still gaining pace as the World Food Programme distributes about 680 tonnes of food each day. But aid agencies believe that 10 per cent of the donations are being sold on the black markets in Haiti - including donated second-hand clothes and aid items meant to be distributed for free. As a result, food prices, including those of rice, have doubled. Indeed, the economic situation is so difficult that a lot of donations are not reaching their destinations. Al Jazeera's Monica Villamizar reports from Port-au-Prince.
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- Haiti, Black Market, International Aid
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MotherForTruth
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Not surprising during war time or natural disasters some suffer while others surviving.
- 3 years ago
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MotherForTruth
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melynda
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those people are destitute, they may need antibiotics or something that some old donated shirt may buy. Capitalism, my ass. This is survival. If someone has a home and is healthy and they are selling goods, then yes, capitalism, greed, all that. But where in Port-Au-Prince is there anyone well-off right now? If they want to sell my Kitsap County swim team 1988 tshirt, I say go for it. And the price of rice has doubled? I thought that this was AID, the giving of needed supplies. Double zero is still zero.
- 3 years ago
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melynda
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Monkey_Films
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Expected.
- 3 years ago
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Monkey_Films
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Willowguy
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How can any man have enough greed to rob his fellow sufferers?
- 3 years ago
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Willowguy
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bailey78
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Progresshiv:
Yep! ain't it great.
- 3 years ago
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bailey78
