Nearly two months after the quake that struck Haiti on January 15, both the United States and the U.N. help Haiti realize that they are not alone in their struggle to recover from their quake. They both promised the President, Rene Preval, that they will continue to raise and donate money to the country. It has been found that nearly half of all the American households have already made some sort of a donation to the country. Washington has donated 700 million dollars, and the U.N. plans to donate 1.4 billion dollars for the country this year.
The rainy season for the country next week, and there are still thousands of people living outside in makeshift tents:
because their homes fell over. The U.N. Secretary Ban Ki-moon recently toured the country with it’s President and a camp that held nearly 45,000 homeless people in tents and on tarps. In jails and prisons 5,000 criminals have escaped and only 200 have been captured. The camps in the country’s are poorly secured at night and with no electricity or power many are in danger of being attacked or raped.
Parliamentary elections that were suppose to be in February were postponed, and the U.S. is currently working on helping Haiti get it’s elections set at a reasonable time. Haiti is in desperate need for money for schools, roads, and electricity.
I think that it is great that everybody is doing their best to help Haiti in their time of need. I haven't seen anything at stores or in restrants to help donate to it, but if I did, I deffinatly would donate my spare change.
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