Has Haiti improved at all during the last few years?

[ShootSpeeders]

Much like Africans should abandon Catholicism, seeing as it's the main reason that they refuse to use contraception, thus allowing/encouraging the spread of AIDS.

that ain't why they won't use condoms. They just refuse to and demand white people find a cure for aids.

 

[ScienceRocks]

I'm trying hard to see if these people are capable of keeping our nation a first world super power. I won't accept anything less.

 

[waltky]

Haiti havin' it rough after Sandy too...

UN: Haiti faces 2013 food shortage after Hurricane Sandy
13 November 2012 - Hurricane Sandy destroyed several areas of the capital, Port au Prince

The UN in Haiti says 1.5 million people remain at risk of not having proper access to food in 2013 due to the destruction caused by Hurricane Sandy and other natural disasters. The situation has been made worse by a drought earlier this year, it says. At least 54 people died as Hurricane Sandy hit the impoverished Caribbean nation two weeks ago.

The country is still struggling to recover from a devastating earthquake in January 2010. During the spring and summer of this year, rural households in northern parts of Haiti were badly hit by drought. Then, Tropical Storm Isaac caused extensive damage in August. Two months of heavy rain followed before Haiti was hit by Hurricane Sandy on 23 October.

New floods

An estimated 21,000 people were left homeless by the hurricane, which also destroyed at least 70% of crops of yam, corn and banana in the south of the country. The UN's World Food Programme says many areas remain isolated. The Haitian government and the WFP have now appealed for an extra $39m (£24m) to continue distributing food, to rehabilitate agricultural land and for flood control.

It has continued to rain heavily in most of Haiti since the hurricane. Floods in the country's second biggest city, Cap-Haitien, left at least 20 people dead last week. "We didn't even have anything. And now, we have lost everything," Rochenel Cineus, a Cap-Haitien resident told the AFP news agency. The father of three has been sleeping in the streets with his family since Thursday night.

BBC News - UN: Haiti faces 2013 food shortage after Hurricane Sandy

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Fall rains bring havoc to Haiti
Nov 13,`12 -- The rain has tapered off and floodwaters no longer claw at houses, but the situation across much of Haiti remained grim on Tuesday following an autumn of punishing rains that have killed scores of people and that threaten to cause even more hunger across the impoverished nation.

In places such as Croix-des-Missions, on the northeastern edge of the Haitian capital, the walls of dozens of homes along a pale brown river have been broken or ripped away, exposing clothes, bedding and everything else to the repeated downpours. Heavy rains began falling in southern Haiti even before Hurricane Sandy passed just west of the country's southern peninsula the night of Oct. 24, dropping more than 20 inches of rain within a 24-hour period. "It took away my whole home. Now I don't have anything," said Solange Calixte, a 56-year-old mother of two whose home in Croix-des-Missions was largely destroyed by floodwaters of the nearby Gray River.

One of 21,000 people the U.N. says were left homeless by Sandy, Calixte was forced to move with her belongings beneath a tarp at a neighbor's home. And the rains have kept coming. Another front soaked much of the north late last week, causing more flooding and leaving at least a dozen dead. So far the back-to-back storms have killed up to 66 people and the crisis is likely to worsen in coming months. Humanitarian workers anticipate a food shortage brought on by the massive flooding that destroyed yam and corn fields.

The United Nations says that as much as 90 percent of Haiti's current harvest season, much of it in the south, was lost in Sandy's floods, and the next harvest season won't begin until March. The World Food Program estimates that more than 1.5 million people are now at risk of malnutrition because they were either displaced or lost crops, forcing Haitians to rely heavily on more-expensive imports. "This means massive inflation, hunger for a lot of people and acute malnutrition," said Johan Peleman, head of the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Haiti. "Basically, the cushion is gone."

Soaring food costs have rattled Haiti before. In 2008 a jump in prices sparked more than a week of deadly rioting and ended in the ouster of the prime minister and his Cabinet. The U.N. and Haitian government are now launching an emergency appeal to raise $39 million in hopes of stemming what they foresee as Haiti's next humanitarian crisis. This money is supposed to help 1.2 million people by providing shelter and food, repairing water, sanitation systems and schools.

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[ScienceRocks]

Why do they keep rebuilding within flood plains? Time to build stronger and within an area that don't flood.

This is something Haiti should consider!

 

[IanC]

Haiti havin' it rough after Sandy too...

UN: Haiti faces 2013 food shortage after Hurricane Sandy
13 November 2012 - Hurricane Sandy destroyed several areas of the capital, Port au Prince

The UN in Haiti says 1.5 million people remain at risk of not having proper access to food in 2013 due to the destruction caused by Hurricane Sandy and other natural disasters. The situation has been made worse by a drought earlier this year, it says. At least 54 people died as Hurricane Sandy hit the impoverished Caribbean nation two weeks ago.

The country is still struggling to recover from a devastating earthquake in January 2010. During the spring and summer of this year, rural households in northern parts of Haiti were badly hit by drought. Then, Tropical Storm Isaac caused extensive damage in August. Two months of heavy rain followed before Haiti was hit by Hurricane Sandy on 23 October.

New floods

An estimated 21,000 people were left homeless by the hurricane, which also destroyed at least 70% of crops of yam, corn and banana in the south of the country. The UN's World Food Programme says many areas remain isolated. The Haitian government and the WFP have now appealed for an extra $39m (£24m) to continue distributing food, to rehabilitate agricultural land and for flood control.

It has continued to rain heavily in most of Haiti since the hurricane. Floods in the country's second biggest city, Cap-Haitien, left at least 20 people dead last week. "We didn't even have anything. And now, we have lost everything," Rochenel Cineus, a Cap-Haitien resident told the AFP news agency. The father of three has been sleeping in the streets with his family since Thursday night.

BBC News - UN: Haiti faces 2013 food shortage after Hurricane Sandy

See also:

Fall rains bring havoc to Haiti
Nov 13,`12 -- The rain has tapered off and floodwaters no longer claw at houses, but the situation across much of Haiti remained grim on Tuesday following an autumn of punishing rains that have killed scores of people and that threaten to cause even more hunger across the impoverished nation.

In places such as Croix-des-Missions, on the northeastern edge of the Haitian capital, the walls of dozens of homes along a pale brown river have been broken or ripped away, exposing clothes, bedding and everything else to the repeated downpours. Heavy rains began falling in southern Haiti even before Hurricane Sandy passed just west of the country's southern peninsula the night of Oct. 24, dropping more than 20 inches of rain within a 24-hour period. "It took away my whole home. Now I don't have anything," said Solange Calixte, a 56-year-old mother of two whose home in Croix-des-Missions was largely destroyed by floodwaters of the nearby Gray River.

One of 21,000 people the U.N. says were left homeless by Sandy, Calixte was forced to move with her belongings beneath a tarp at a neighbor's home. And the rains have kept coming. Another front soaked much of the north late last week, causing more flooding and leaving at least a dozen dead. So far the back-to-back storms have killed up to 66 people and the crisis is likely to worsen in coming months. Humanitarian workers anticipate a food shortage brought on by the massive flooding that destroyed yam and corn fields.

The United Nations says that as much as 90 percent of Haiti's current harvest season, much of it in the south, was lost in Sandy's floods, and the next harvest season won't begin until March. The World Food Program estimates that more than 1.5 million people are now at risk of malnutrition because they were either displaced or lost crops, forcing Haitians to rely heavily on more-expensive imports. "This means massive inflation, hunger for a lot of people and acute malnutrition," said Johan Peleman, head of the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Haiti. "Basically, the cushion is gone."

Soaring food costs have rattled Haiti before. In 2008 a jump in prices sparked more than a week of deadly rioting and ended in the ouster of the prime minister and his Cabinet. The U.N. and Haitian government are now launching an emergency appeal to raise $39 million in hopes of stemming what they foresee as Haiti's next humanitarian crisis. This money is supposed to help 1.2 million people by providing shelter and food, repairing water, sanitation systems and schools.

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once you cut down all the trees you lose the soil. the only way to fix Haiti is to take all the people away for a few generations and let the land heal itself.

 

[High_Gravity]

Haiti can't improve until they stop believing in voodoo.

I don't think that has anything to do with it, Somalia is pretty much all Muslims and that country is maybe an even bigger shit hole than Haiti.

whitey needs to get out of Haiti,Africa.Those people have been living just great for hundreds of years.Soon as whites come into the picture all these different diseases start killing them off.Remember the indians and how whitey spread all those diseases,so they could grab their land. People of other lands dont want to live like Americans,they are used to living the way they are.

So get the hell out,whitey.

That is a very ignorant response, as soon as all the white people leave those countries will become even BIGGER shit holes.

 

[IanC]

Why throw money down this snake pit if it isn't going to improve? Wouldn't it be better to send used books on farming, science, etc?

Hey matt you always worrying about other people,why dont you go live in Haiti and teach them the american way.

the American way only works when you have people capable of understanding science, farming,etc. most Haitians aren't capable so it would be a fruitless endeavor.

 

[Katzndogz]

Haiti cannot improve as long as it clings to voodoo and devil worship.

 

[GHook93]

FYU

Haiti has been screwed since the day the West took it over.

For a very brief time after the BLACKS threw out the FRENCH Haiti was exporting goods and really was starting to make an economic go of it.

But then the FRENCH used gunboat diplomacy and embargos to prevent that nation from being able to export, and thereby forced that nation to accept an enormous DEBTLOAD that kept Haiti virtuallly bankrupt for over 100 years.

It would take a near-fascist regime investing billions of dollars about two generations to overcome the many problems that society has right now.

And NOBODY is going to make that kind of investment in that place because the cost of repairing that society exceeds the society's potenial returns.

Wow you TRULY twist history! The Blacks in Haiti revolted, but didn't kick the French out at first. The French Haitians helped create a beginning economy. The Black Haitians thought the French were trying to take over and they SLAUGHTERED all the remaining Frenchman. Their economy turned to SHIT and NEVER became anything. Haiti was the SECOND country in the Western Hemisphere to gain independence, yet they have ALWAYS been the armpit of the hemisphere!

When the did West take them over. Periods where the military quelled violence, but you WEAK excuse for their utter failure as a society of blaming it on the white man is DISINGENOUS!!!

 

[High_Gravity]

Haiti cannot improve as long as it clings to voodoo and devil worship.

You really think thats the reason?

 

[Swagger]

Haiti cannot improve as long as it clings to voodoo and devil worship.

Perhaps.

Though I'm of the opinion that the cruelest aspect of slavery was forcing our God upon blacks. They had their own God(s) prior to slavery, but we forced Christianity upon them in the hope they wouldn't attack us because by default they'd be attacking God's image. That was a cruel mind fuck. White supremacy is good for me, but even I can admit that we went too far by forcing our religion upon blacks. Just look at everywhere else we subjugated but didn't adopt Christianity. In time they removed us from their land, because they had religious idols in their own image they could rally behind.

 

[longknife]

Here's what's happening -

check out Haiti News - Breaking World Haiti News - The New York Times

 

[ScienceRocks]

Would books on farming, science and engineering help any?
Would a free trade agreement between the United states and Haiti?