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The piece points out that much good has been done with the aid (hospitals, medicine, schools, temp shelter, food, water . . . over 1.3mm Haitians per day now being fed by World Food Program). And, the piece questions, why is $700mm still not deployed while Haitians are living in tents and temporary shelter.
Six months in and there appears to be lots of progress in those camps run by the NGOs with which we’ve invested. We must remember that many agencies of the government were completely wiped out, their entire 2010 class of nurses (100) were killed when their school collapsed, etc, etc. It appears there are substantial neglect issues in other encampments. And, too much of the money for permanent structures awaits government coordination. Too many unknowns. I plan to learn a lot more about all this while there next week. Good questions.
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