France24 is reporting the United Nations is using a food coupon system to distribute aid. Fake coupons were discovered, causing the UN to stop food distribution to at least 10,000 earthquake survivors. Is it just me, or does a coupon system seem kinda silly given the circumstances? AFP – The struggling aid effort in Haiti …
The Hate and the Quake Published on 1/17/2010 BY SIR HILARY BECKLES THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES is in the process of conceiving how best to deliver a major conference on the theme Rethinking And Rebuilding Haiti. I am very keen to provide an input into this exercise because for too long there has …
When you see the word “looting”, what comes to mind? Storefronts being smashed open as wild and immoral vandals make off with valued goods, big and small, right? When we think of looting, we think of crime- we think of stealing- we think of taking things that don’t belong to us. Looting usually happens in …
There are many different ways to examine what has happened in Haiti since a magnitude 7 earthquake reduced much of the country to rubble. We have seen pictures and videos of death and destruction that boggles the mind; bodies strewn amongst the broken buildings; dead children stacked like firewood outside a local school. Most hospitals …