Watching and reading the news over the weekend, it is unbelievable how supportive and generous the world is being to the disaster stricken country of Haiti. The world is coming together and raising funds, but due to this crisis, the supplies and human support is not coming fast enough. The people in Haiti have no homes, no food, running water is sparse and there is not enough medical services to meet the demand.
However, the positive aspect of this natural catastrophe is that the world is doing everything one can to help this country. Charities such as, Unicef is deploying clean water, sanitation supplies, therapeutic food, medical supplies and temporary shelter to Haiti, the CARE organization plans to start food distribution of high protein biscuits to Haiti, and the red cross is accepting donation for Haiti Relief development and have raised more than 8 million dollars thus far. High end businessmen and celebrities are also raising funds to help out.
Short help is what is needed immediately but one should think about the long term effect that this will have on this country in a year, 5year and 10 years time.The long term project of rebuilding Haiti is of a great importance. The United Nations are taken a step in the right direction. They have launched an appeal for 562 million dollars to help fund a six month relief effort.
So yes, please donate now to a humanitarian organizations to help the current situation, however remember that this country has to rebuild itself from scratch, so don’t forget about then in 6 months time!
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