Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Weather´s Grim

So the rains have come – first just for a few minutes at night, and then prolonged heavy showers throughout most of the night. Our tent was flooded for a second night and our mattress is soggy. Yum!

Port au Prince remains a site of complete Armageddon and with the rains comes disease. Some 300,000 people died in the quake and now who knows how many countless others are going to die from disease - malaria, cholera, typhoid, to name just three?

Everyone know that the rains come in April so why has there been so few improvements to the city when it was dry? Is this really the best our global community could have done for this poverty-stricken region?

So many people world-wide have donated financially to Haiti, but throwing money at a problem does not mean the problem goes away.

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