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Haiti – Two Years After the Earthquake
January 12, 2010: The United Nations reports The earthquake that hit Haiti on 12 January 2010 affected almost 3.5 million people, including the entire population of 2.8 million people living in Port-au-Prince. The Government of Haiti estimates that the earthquake killed 222,570 and injured another 300,572 people. Displacement peaked at close to 2.3 million people, including 302,000 children. At least 188,383 houses were badly damaged and 105,000 were destroyed by the earthquake. Sixty per cent of … Read entire article »
Filed under: Charity, Disasters, Original writing, Reporting
Recovering from Hurricane Irene
As Hurricane Irene slowly moves into Canada, the damage it leaves behind is immense. For Americans affected by the wind, water and other effects of this record storm, here are some resources. Some websites are of more value than others. As of this writing, only Puerto Rico has received a “Major Disaster Declaration”. The list of “Emergency Declarations”, a lower level of declaration, is at the bottom of this post. … Read entire article »
Multi national refugees continue to flee Libya
While the United States and a dozen partners continue to enforce UN Security Council Resolution 1973 by force, the flow of refugees out of Libya continues. Though slowed by Loyalist forces at some border crossings, both Libyan nationals and third country nationals continue to flee the civil war. The Sallum border crossing the the entry way for Libyan refugees to Egypt. The UN’s International Organization for Migration (IOM) reports that since February 22, 2011, 140,128 people … Read entire article »
Filed under: Charity, Military, Original writing, Reporting
Jumping Out of Perfectly Good Airplanes for Charity
The men and women of the United States military not only volunteer to defend our nation, they reach out to the needy wherever they may be stationed. The Marines claim the title “No Better Friend” but it really does apply to all the services. Since 1998, the Airborne community at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, has jumped, willingly, from perfectly good airplanes to obtain toys for needy local children. Operation Toy Drop is a tradition that continues … Read entire article »
In Katrina’s Wake: The National Guard on the Gulf Coast, 2005
“In Katrina’s Wake: The National Guard on the Gulf Coast, 2005,” a book that chronicles the National Guard’s involvement in the most expensive natural disaster in U.S. history, has been released by the U.S. Government Printing Office. This 64-page monograph, written by National Guard historians Bill Boehm, Renee Hylton, and Army Maj. Thomas W. Mehl, shows how Katrina first grew from a seemingly-routine Category One hurricane in Florida into a behemoth storm in the Gulf of Mexico bringing 150 mph-plus winds and large swells of water upon hundreds of thousands of people. It struck Louisiana and Mississippi somewhat diminished in strength, but bringing with it the capability to flood 80 percent of the city of New Orleans as its levees failed, and to flatten buildings and structures in the state of Mississippi. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Disasters, Katrina relief, Military
Army landing craft aid Columbian Navy in Haiti
It’s almost as if the multi-national team of Haitians, Colombians and Americans, who began working less than one week ago to offload humanitarian cargo inbound from Colombia, have been working together for years. The complex effort of transferring cargo from the anchored Colombian Armada Navy ship, Cartagena Indias, to two alternating U.S. Army landing craft utility vessels, the Matamoras and the Hobkirk, near a small port at Killick, Haiti seemed like a routine effort to the novice mariner. Representatives from all organizations credit teamwork, cooperation and motivation as the catalyst for the successful operation which ended April 22. And no matter which language was being spoken, be it Creole, French, Spanish, English or a mangled combination of all four, everyone involved seemed to agree that the cooperation was “excelente.” Colombian Armada ship … Read entire article »
Filed under: Charity, Disasters, Military, Our Allies
Haitian homeless still homeless
And it grinds on. AlertNet / Reuters Around a quarter of a million Haitians living in precarious tent camps could face a “catastrophe” unless they are moved quickly to safer areas ahead of the approaching rainy and hurricane seasons, the United Nations has warned. More than two months after the Jan. 12 earthquake that wrecked Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince and surrounding cities, rain and storms threaten to turn some of the city’s squalid tent camps into toxic rivers of mud and human excrement, and protecting the 250,000 residents who are judged to be most vulnerable is a race against time. As of last week, only around 200 families had been moved to temporary shelters outside of the capital approved by the government. “We just can’t let people continue to live in these conditions,” France Hurtubise, public … Read entire article »
What is the best way to help the Haitians?
There are some very simple ways that the people of Haiti can be helped. There are actions that all of us can take to provide that help. And, sadly, there are a great many ways that our work and our money can be used that will not benefit the Haitians. Most of us will never see a place with more basic needs than Haiti. Providing for those needs means more than just a shipping container full of old clothes. It means that the work and the money we donate must go to groups that are effective, expert in their field, on the ground in Haiti right now, and will use the resources we provide to aid the Haitians the the ways they need aid. We can see all their needs, but … Read entire article »
Filed under: Charity, Disasters, Original writing, Reporting
The current situation in Haiti
Haiti has been awash in visitors for the last two months. The relief effort after the earthquake brought thousands of people to the country that had never been there before. Few had any understanding of Haitian traditions, Haitian customs and the way things were done in Haiti up until January 12, 2010. That was both a good thing and a bad thing. On January 11, 2010, Haiti was a cesspool. Its people were among the poorest on the planet and its government was dysfunctional in all of the traditional ways of a third world country. It had no army, and its police were supported and supervised by United Nations military forces. Tabitha Hale is a twenty-something conservative activist. She is well known in political social media circles and is considered by many … Read entire article »
Filed under: Charity, Disasters, Original writing, Reporting
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