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Troops and planeloads of food and medicine streamed into Haiti to aid a traumatized nation still rattled by aftershocks from the catastrophic earthquake that flattened homes and government buildings and buried countless people.
The Haitian Red Cross said it believed 45,000 to 50,000 people had died and 3 million more -- one third of Haiti's population -- were hurt or left homeless by the major 7.0 magnitude quake that hit its impoverished capital on Tuesday.
Planes full of supplies arrived at the Port-au-Prince airport faster than ground crews could unload them and aviation authorities restricted non-military flights from U.S. airspace for fear planes would run out of fuel while waiting to land.
Many hospitals were too battered to use, and doctors struggled to treat crushed limbs, head wounds and broken bones at makeshift facilities where medical supplies were scarce.
Several nations sent mobile hospitals, surgeons and even psychologists to help traumatized Haitians. The U.S. Navy hospital ship Comfort was on the way back to Haiti, where it delivered medical care after a spate of storms caused massive flooding and mudslides in 2008.
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Thousands of people made homeless in Haiti's massive earthquake woke up after a third night in makeshift tents with their despair turning to anger.
Planes full of supplies and search and rescue equipment continued to arrive at Port-au-Prince airport faster than ground crews could unload them, jamming the limited ramp space and forcing arriving aircraft to circle for up to two hours before landing.
Bodies lay all around the hilly city following Haiti's catastrophic quake, which flattened buildings and killed tens of thousands, leaving countless others homeless. People covered their noses with cloth to block the stench of death.
The Haitian Red Cross said it believed 45,000 to 50,000 people had died and 3 million more -- one third of Haiti's population -- were hurt or left homeless by the quake.
Doctors in Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, were ill-equipped to treat the injured. Relief workers warned that many more people will die if the injured, many with broken bones and serious loss of blood, do not get first aid in the next day or so.
Many hospitals were too battered to use, and doctors struggled to treat crushed limbs, head wounds and broken bones at makeshift facilities where medical supplies were scarce.
Under a U.N. appeal, the World Food Program will seek to provide life-saving food rations to 2 million destitute people for the next month. A longer-term operation is planned up to July 15.
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Christa Brelsford, a graduate student at Arizona State University, was among the first wave of Haiti earthquake victims airlifted to the United States for medical care.
A native of Alaska, Brelsford was on an 11-day volunteer literacy trip to Dabonne, about 12 miles outside the capital city of Port-au-Prince when the 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck.
She said her brother, her boyfriend Julian and she were on the second floor of a house when they felt the earthquake.
Trying to get out of the house, she ran down the stairs but slipped and her legs became trapped in the rubble.
Brelsford was taken by motorcycle to the United Nations base where she was eventually airlifted out of the country and back to the United States.
Doctors at the University of Miami Jackson Memorial Hospital amputated her right leg.
Dr. Mark McKenney said Brelsford is one of 11 earthquake victims taken to the hospital, many of whom have fractured bones and punctured lungs.
Tens of thousands of people are believed to have died in the strongest earthquake to hit Haiti in 200 years.
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In the hours following Haiti's devastating earthquake, CNN, the New York Times and other major news sources adopted a common interpretation for the severe destruction: the 7.0 earthquake was so devastating because it struck an urban area that was extremely over-populated and extremely poor. Houses "built on top of each other" and constructed by the poor people themselves made for a fragile city. And the country's many years of underdevelopment and political turmoil made the Haitian government ill-prepared to respond to such a disaster.
True enough. But that's not the whole story. What's missing is any explanation of why there are so many Haitians living in and around Port-au-Prince and why so many of them are forced to survive on so little. Indeed, even when an explanation is ventured, it is often outrageously false such as a former U.S. diplomat's testimony on CNN that Port-au-Prince's overpopulation was due to the fact that Haitians, like most Third World people, know nothing of birth control.
It may startle news-hungry Americans to learn that these conditions the American media correctly attributes to magnifying the impact of this tremendous disaster were largely the product of American policies and an American-led development model.
From 1957-1971 Haitians lived under the dark shadow of "Papa Doc" Duvalier, a brutal dictator who enjoyed U.S. backing because he was seen by Americans as a reliable anti-Communist. After his death, Duvalier's son, Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" became President-for-life at the age of 19 and he ruled Haiti until he was finally overthrown in 1986. It was in the 1970s and 1980s that Baby Doc and the United States government and business community worked together to put Haiti and Haiti's capitol city on track to become what it was on January 12, 2010.
After the coronation of Baby Doc, American planners inside and outside the U.S. government initiated their plan to transform Haiti into the "Taiwan of the Caribbean." This small, poor country situated conveniently close to the United States was instructed to abandon its agricultural past and develop a robust, export-oriented manufacturing sector. This, Duvalier and his allies were told, was the way toward modernization and economic development.
From the standpoint of the World Bank and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Haiti was the perfect candidate for this neoliberal facelift. The entrenched poverty of the Haitian masses could be used to force them into low-paying jobs sewing baseballs and assembling other products.
But USAID had plans for the countryside too. Not only were Haiti's cities to become exporting bases but so was the countryside, with Haitian agriculture also reshaped along the lines of export-oriented, market-based production. To accomplish this USAID, along with urban industrialists and large landholders, worked to create agro-processing facilities, even while they increased their practice of dumping surplus agricultural products from the U.S. on the Haitian people.
This "aid" from the Americans, along with the structural changes in the countryside predictably forced Haitian peasants who could no longer survive to migrate to the cities, especially Port-au-Prince where the new manufacturing jobs were supposed to be. However, when they got there they found there weren't nearly enough manufacturing jobs go around. The city became more and more crowded. Slum areas expanded. And to meet the housing needs of the displaced peasants, quickly and cheaply constructed housing was put up, sometimes placing houses right "on top of each other."
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Troops and planeloads of food and medicine streamed into Haiti to aid a traumatized nation still rattled by aftershocks from the catastrophic earthquake that flattened homes and government buildings and buried countless people.
There were 300 people inside Port-au-Prince's landmark Montana Hotel when the earthquake struck. A hundred managed to escape, but 200 people remain trapped inside.
Members of the French Civil Security rescue team based in Brignolles arrived in the Haitian capital with equipment and medical staff.
A Chilean contingent of U.N. peacekeepers helped excavate rubble at the Montana Hotel and pulled 14 people out alive, including a young girl.
Bodies lay all around the hilly city, and people covered their noses with cloth to try to block the stench. Haitian citizens began digging graves as the infrastructure was overwhelmed by the scale of the disaster.
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With the 7.0 magnitude earthquake collapsing the presidential palace, a string of ministries and the headquarters of the U.N. peacekeeping mission in the country, Haiti faces a dangerous vacuum in security and government.
The Caribbean nation of 9 million people, the poorest in the western hemisphere, was devastated by the massive earthquake.
Many people in the capital Port-au-Prince continued to pick away at crumbled buildings with bare hands, sticks and hammers hoping to find loved-ones alive. Thousands of homeless people have set up their own tent camps anywhere they could.
The Haitian Red Cross said it believes that 3 million, one third of Haiti's population, were hurt or left homeless by the quake and between 45,000 and 50,000 people were killed.
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The Bisson family were among the first wave of Haiti earthquake victims airlifted back to France.
Patricia Bisson and her husband Michel had travelled to Haiti over a week ago to pick up their new adopted son, Jefferson. They were at the orphanage when the 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck.
She said their first thoughts after the quake were for the safety of their new son, who they barely knew, and to get the 40 other children aged between three months and fourteen years old, out of the dangerous buildings.
Jefferson smiled as he entered his new home country, where his mother hopes he will be able to forget the horrors of the Haiti he left and lead a happy, stable life. Patricia Bisson says he is presumed to be ten, and has already suffered enough.
Tens of thousands of people are believed to have died in the strongest earthquake to hit Haiti in 200 years.
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Mass graves are springing up all over the city in Haiti's capital Port-Au-Prince for the dead while those who were left hurt or homeless in Tuesday's earthquake begged for food, water and medical assistance on Friday.
Tens of thousands are feared dead from Tuesday's massive quake. The Pan American Health Organization estimated the death toll could be 50,000 to 100,000, higher than previous figures from the Haitian Red Cross, which saw deaths at up to 50,000.
Citizens in the wrecked coastal capital Port-au-Prince spent a third night sleeping out in the open on sidewalks and streets strewn with rubble and scattered decomposing bodies, as aftershocks rippled through the hilly neighborhoods.
On a barren area in the hillsides ten kilometers outside the city, in Ti Tanyen, there were recently dug mass graves for victims all with bodies in them.
Raggedly-dressed survivors held out their arms to foreign reporters in the streets, begging for food and water.
At one destroyed supermarket scores of people swarmed over the rubble to try to reach the food underneath. Just outside Cite Soleil slum, desperate people crowded around a burst water pipe jostling to drink from the pipe or fill up buckets.
Some survivors, angry over the delay in getting aid, build roadblocks with corpses in one part of the city.
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Still pictures show extent of Haiti tragedy after a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck near the capital Port-au-Prince. A massive international relief effort was underway Friday, led by the United Nations as thousands of Haitians were still missing and many feared, buried beneath the rubble.
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A Chinese rescue team began relief work in Haiti, treating injured people and searching for survivors, state television (CCTV) reported.
A 7.0 magnitude earthquake rocked Haiti, killing possibly tens of thousands of people as it toppled the presidential palace and hillside shanties alike, leaving the poor Caribbean nation appealing for international help.
As the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, Haiti is ill-equipped to respond to such a disaster, lacking heavy equipment to move debris and a sufficient force of emergency personnel.
Nations around the world are sending rescue teams with search dogs and heavy equipment, helicopters, tents, water purification units, food, doctors and communications teams.
China dispatched a 50-member-strong search and rescue team to assist in aid efforts in Haiti.
According to official Xinhua News Agency, the team consisted of experienced medical and search and rescue personnel and three sniffer dogs.
The team also carried some food, equipment and medicine with them, state media said.
China was struck by a powerful earthquake in May 2008, when an 7.9 magnitude tremor hit the southwestern Sichuan province, killing over 80,000 people.
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President Barack Obama's decision to boost U.S. aid to Yemen to help the small Arabian Peninsula country fight al Qaida risks tying the U.S. more closely to an autocratic ruler whose repression of economic and political grievances is strengthening the terrorists and pushing his impoverished nation toward breakup.
"Any association with the (Yemeni) regime will only confirm al Qaida's narrative, which is that America is only interested in maintaining corrupt and despotic rulers and is not interested in the fate of Arabs and Muslims," warned Bernard Haykel, a Princeton University professor.
The State Department's latest international human rights report cited allegations that Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh's regime tortures and assassinates suspected opponents, operates secret prisons and muzzles independent media.
Security forces run by Saleh's close relatives and reportedly advised by former officers of Saddam Hussein's Republican Guard are accused of using "excessive force" against a four-year-old Shiite Muslim rebellion in north Yemen, uprooting thousands of civilians.
In the once independent south, meanwhile, a crackdown on what had been a peaceful movement against alleged political and economic marginalization has ignited demands for secession and violence.
A major risk for Obama, experts said, is that Yemenis, Saudis and others will be drawn in greater numbers to join al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, the network's Yemen-based franchise, to fight the unpopular Saleh or stage attacks on his U.S. benefactor.
Stepping up U.S. security aid to Saleh "can actually play into the hands of al Qaida," warned Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee who's been warning for years about a growing terrorist threat from Yemen.
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Corporate America has already pledged more than $40 million in donations to support earthquake relief efforts in Haiti. Corporate pledges for Haiti have tripled in the past 24 hours, according to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
By Friday, 22 U.S. companies had already pledged more than $1 million apiece to international relief organizations working in Haiti. They include Microsoft ($1.25 million), Coca-Cola ($1 million) and Lowe's Companies ($1 million). Time Warner, the parent company of Fortune and CNNMoney, is also raising funds for the relief effort.
"We just decided this was the right thing to do," said Lowe's spokesperson Maureen Ricks. In addition to its gift to the American Red Cross, all 1,700-plus Lowe's stores will serve as donation centers for the American Red Cross, Ricks added.
The scale and speed of the pledges has surprised disaster relief veterans. "I wouldn't have expected this level at all," said Stephen Jordan, executive director of the Business Civic Leadership Center at the U.S. Chamber, which is helping to coordinate relief efforts between the business community, the U.S. government and aid organizations on the ground in Haiti. "People are recognizing that this is bigger than Haiti."
The U.S. Chamber's Stephen Jordan expects total corporate donations to surpass $80 million. This would put the Haiti effort in the top five U.S. corporate relief efforts of all time.
The largest amount of corporate donations ever raised for an international disaster is $566 million, given in response to the Asian tsunami of 2004. Domestically, U.S. businesses donated $1.4 billion in response to hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005, according to U.S. Chamber statistics.
The response is all the more striking given that Haiti is a small, impoverished country (average per capita income: $2 a day) where few U.S. companies have business interests. However, some 600,000 Haitians live in the United States, and many employees of U.S. firms have friends or relatives in Haiti.
Wal-mart, the world's largest retailer, has pledged $600,000 to support Red Cross emergency relief efforts in Haiti. The company also announced that it is sending $100,000 in pre-packaged food kits to Haiti at the request of the Red Cross.
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A major earthquake rocked Haiti, killing possibly thousands of people as it toppled the presidential palace and hillside shanties alike and left the Caribbean nation appealing for international help.
A five-story U.N. building was also brought down by Tuesday's 7.0 magnitude quake, the most powerful to hit Haiti in more than 200 years according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
In the capital, Port-au-Prince, there were scenes of chaos on the streets with people sobbing and appearing dazed amid the rubble.
The quake's epicenter was only 10 miles (16 km) from Port-au-Prince. About 4 million people live in the city and surrounding area. Aftershocks as powerful as 5.9 rattled the city throughout the night and into Wednesday.
Reports on casualties and damage were slow to emerge due to communication problems.
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By Alison Hamm, Media Consortium Blogger
Over 100,000 people are believed dead after a magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck near the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, on Tuesday afternoon. The quake buried countless buildings, from shantytowns to the presidential palace. All hospitals in Port-au-Prince have been leveled or abandoned. The United Nations headquarters and the city’s main prison have collapsed as well. Thousands of residents are homeless and without food, water, or electricity.
On the ground in Port-au-Prince
Haiti is in a state of chaos, as Kayla Coleman reports for Care2. “The streets…are flooded with the rubble of collapsed buildings and displaced people. … The earthquake has destroyed much of the already fragile and overburdened infrastructure.”
Because all hospitals have been destroyed, there is nowhere to take the injured. According to Coleman, the United Nations says it will immediately release $10 million from its emergency fund to aid relief efforts.
Haiti before the earthquake
And though Americans are now paying attention to Haiti in the wake of this disaster, little to no attention was paid to the “daily chaos and misery” that plagues the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, as James Ridgeway writes for Mother Jones. “It is hard to imagine what a magnitude 7 earthquake might do to a city that on any ordinary day already resembles a disaster area.”
Ridgeway also cites a 2006 New York Times report that details how the Bush administration helped destabilize Haiti in the years leading up to the 2004 coup.
Ridgeway writes:
“For the most part, Europe and the United States have continued to sit by as Haiti has grown poorer and poorer. When I was there you could find the children just outside Cite Soleil, the giant slum, living in the garbage dump, waiting for the U.S. army trucks to dump the scraps left from the meals of American soldiers. There they stood, knee deep in garbage, fighting for bits of food. As for the old, they people every street, gathering at the Holiday Inn at Port-au-Prince in wheelchairs, waiting at the doorway in search of a coin or two. They have no social safety net. And nobody with any money—no bank, no insurance company, no hedge fund, no mutual fund—ever makes any serious investment in the country.”
Will prevailing attitudes towards Haiti change?
At RaceWire, Michelle Chen writes that Haiti, a place “where buildings have been known to suddenly collapse on their own, even without the help of a natural disaster,” was still trying to recover from the severe tropical storms last spring that leveled hundreds of schools and left tens of thousands homeless.
Now the situation is desperate. “There will be an outpouring of sympathy across borders, a spasm of humanitarian aid,” Chen writes. But “will there be an attitude shift in the power structures that have long compounded natural disaster with politically manufactured crisis?”
‘Supporting the right kind of aid’
For those in Haiti, outside help is crucial. The country is in need of search and rescue volunteers, field hospitals, emergency health, water purification, and telecommunications. To ensure that you are supporting the right kind of aid—”the kind that builds local self-resilience, strengthens the local economy, and fosters local leadership,” as Sarah van Gelder details for Yes! Magazine—donate to one or more groups with a proven track record, such as Doctors without Borders, Grassroots International, Partners in Health, and Action Aid, among others.
Hip-hop artist and Haitian native Wyclef Jean has led efforts to help Haiti for years through his charity Yele Haiti. Jessica Calefati at Mother Jones reports that Yele spends $100,000 a year on athletic programs for Haitian children and helps feed 50,000 people a month with food donated by the UN. When Jean received word of the disaster, he immediately acted, sending a “flurryBy Alison Hamm, Media Consortium Blogger
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After every major disaster, misguided donations actually worsen the suffering.
By David Case — GlobalPost
Published: January 13, 2010 18:27 ET
BOSTON — The images emerging from Haiti’s massive earthquake are gut-wrenching. As usual in such disasters, Americans are responding generously. Millions of dollars will be raised.
If you’re considering doing your part, that’s great. But, experts say, whatever you do, don’t donate anything but money. Under no circumstances should you mail care packages, toys, food or clothes. Don’t even think about sending drugs. The response to prior disasters shows that regardless of your intentions, you will only be making matters worse.
That’s what happened in the aftermath of the December 2004 tsunami. The disaster was followed by an unprecedented outpouring of global generosity. This dramatically facilitated the grisly chore of cleaning up the tens of thousands of bodies left under the tropical sun, and it funded a reconstruction effort that, while far from perfect, provided roofs over the heads of many.
But aid workers joked that the real tsunami was followed by another tsunami — of misguided goodwill. In an effort to help, people shipped boxes, often following the instructions of local television news programs. And so in Aceh, Indonesia amid the trauma, hunger and devastation, care packages piled up containing everything from pajamas and teddy bears to birth control pills and Bibles — a hodgepodge impossible to sort through. There were boxes filled with half-used ointments and prescription drugs, as if do-gooders had cleaned out their medicine cabinets. And some unscrupulous corporations — exploiting tax write-offs for soon-to-be-expired pharmaceuticals — apparently shipped whatever had been lying around the warehouse for too long.
Boxes of supplies sent after the 2004 tsunami.
(Courtesy Pharmaciens Sans Frontiers)
It all amounted to a mountain of materials that confounded the efforts of the pros, and made it more difficult to deliver essential supplies on the earthquake-ravaged roads.
Months after the aftershocks stopped, the French aid organization Pharmaciens Sans Frontieres (Pharmacists Without Borders) conducted a study of that second tsunami. In a world where most people lack adequate access to medicine, the results were a travesty.
The group found that although officials didn’t request any medicine, they received 4,000 metric tons of it, or more than 4 pounds for each person in the tsunami-affected area. There were multiple-year supplies of antibiotics, and palette loads of drugs unknown to health care providers. Seventy percent of it was labeled in a language that locals did not understand.
Disasters like the Haiti earthquake and the Indian Ocean tsunami present colossal logistical challenges. Nonetheless, in Aceh officials and relief workers did their best to sort through this stock: Drugs were stored in private homes, in hospitals rooms and corridors (despite a desperate shortage of space for patients). Eighty-four percent of the facilities lacked air conditioning, rendering their contents unusable, according to the study. A large depot near Aceh’s airport was so overwhelmed that mountains of pricey pharmaceuticals were dumped outside to rot under the monsoons and tropical sun.
Of course, the donors were only trying to help, but misplaced intentions actually worsened the suffering. Buried under care packages and out of date antibiotics labeled in Thai and Chinese were the world’s most advanced malaria medications. Meanwhile along the coast, people who had just lost homes and families writhed in malarial fever for lack of treatment.
In the end, most of the drugs had to be incinerated — you can’t simply send such a stock to the dump, where it would seep into the ground water and create another health hazard. That cost donors and the Indonesian government millions.
Aceh was by no means unusual in this regard.After every major disaster, misguided donations actually worsen the suffering.
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After every major disaster misguided donations actually worsen the suffering.
"Under no circumstances should you mail care packages, toys, food or clothes. Don’t even think about sending drugs. The response to prior disasters shows that regardless of your intentions, you will only be making matters worse."
If you want to help make sure you ONLY donate money through a reputable source.http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/haiti/100113/haiti-earthquake-aid
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The massive earthquake that has toppled buildings and cost untold lives in Haiti has also dealt a staggering blow to a prominent international aid organization, which is struggling to help the injured without the benefit of a single hospital.
The 7.0-magnitude quake incapacitated all three Doctors Without Borders medical facilities around the capital of Port-Au-Prince, the group said Wednesday, causing one to collapse completely and rendering the other two so unstable that they had to be abandoned.
Workers scrambled to set up temporary shelters, where they are now dealing with an influx of seriously wounded quake victims, Paul McPhun, a member of the organization's emergency management team, told a conference call.
The lack of infrastructure has made it impossible for staff to provide adequate treatment, he said.
"The best we can offer them at the moment is first aid care and stabilization," McPhun said.
"The reality of what we're facing is severe traumas: head wounds, crushed limbs, severe problems that cannot be dealt with with the level of medical care that we currently have available with no infrastructure, really, to support it."
The organization's first priority is to re-establish facilities that will enable staff to perform surgeries and other more intensive procedures, McPhun said. There may be some relatively undamaged buildings that could be converted into a hospital, he added.
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What I'd like to see is hospitals in the industrial countries donating vital equipment to Doctors Without Borders, and armies in these countries donating field hospital tents and infrastructures (surgery lamps, tables, equipment, beds, etc.), as well as food rations. The survivors will need clothes, toiletries, blankets, sheets, towels, shoes, etc., and especially formula, bottles, diapers, baby cots, clothes, etc. If there are any Haitians in your neighborhood, it is quite likely that they already are collecting such things to send to Haiti - your help and contributions would be a great gift. You can also donate money to Doctors Without Borders - details at http://www.msf.org/msfinternational/donations/The massive earthquake that has toppled buildings and cost untold lives in Haiti has... more
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