Posted on 04/02/2013 4:17:55 PM PDT by mdittmar
The United Nations says a growing number of Haitians are not getting enough to eat.
The U.N. mission in the Caribbean nation of 10 million people said in a monthly bulletin Tuesday that a spike in malnutrition has been recorded in some areas since October.
At least one in five households faces a serious food deficit and acute malnutrition despite efforts to reduce hunger, the report said.
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Idiot!!! Enough with yer common sense! /S
Hmmm.... Seems like they suffer from poverty of intellect and are bankrupt of gratitude ...
That’ll put a scowl on yer face and deep furrows ..
The problem of NGO credibility is especially onerous in Haiti. Sometimes called the “Republic of NGOs” (United States Institute of Peace 2008), with the single exception of India, Haiti is said to have more NGOs and charities per capita than any country on the planet (Clinton 2009).
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Indeed, the entire issue of how many NGOs are in Haiti highlights the confusion over what NGOs are really up to and the lack of accountability. Bill Clinton (2009), for example, cited the World Bank for a figure of 10,000 NGOs in Haiti. At about the same time, Jean-Max Bellerive, Haitian Minister of Planning, reported that that only 400 NGO’s are registered with the government but estimated that there are as many as 3,000; CIIR (2004) claims there are from 10-20,0000.[iii]
If there are more than a hundred countries around the world with serious endemic poverty and hunger, why single out Haiti for such a report, and such a scare-headline??
Who benefits from Haiti being seen as an emergency case?
. . . The Clintons and all the other aid foundations that rushed to use the Haiti earthquake to amass fortunes and accomplish exactly nothing meaningful?
Haiti is always starving. Has been as long as I can remember. But Haiti is a good place to learn a lesson, it is a Nation that turned its back on God and sold its soul.
Famine... happens.
The Haitian government needs to pass a law that people need to eat more and enforce it.
I disagree. When you are completely and utterly oppressed from birth onward, well, just thank God you didn’t live it.
“People should not be going hungry on a warm tropical island that is surrounded by waters teaming with fish . People should not be going hungry on an island that has weather nice enough to farm year round .”
Because of the extreme drought Haiti suffered last year, the outbreak of cholera, and the constant threat of malaria, this is not a tropical paradise.
Everything cost much more than in the US (sometimes double). Last summer many villages in the area where my friend works had no crops, because of the lack of rain. People were starving to death. The village I am familiar with currently has very little water in their cisterns. They are constantly praying for rain.
Our “poor” in the US are very wealthy compared with those living in most of the world.
Most schools are pay as you go. There are very few free schools on the island. There are 14 and 15 year olds in the 4th grade at their school. At least these are trying to improve themselves, unlike many in the US who view schools as nothing more than baby sitting services, and never even try to get an education.
How do you have a food shortage on a tropical island? It’s unnatural. Hungry? Go catch a fish, or trap a lobster, or shimmy up a tree and get some fruit. Problem solved, next order of business.
No, we should just send in yet another boat load of money for the plutocrats to steal.
I don’t know squat about Haiti but I would guess that the citizenry is unarmed allowing the bad guys free reign.
Ask your Haitian friends if having gun rights would help to keep the bad guys away.
When I receive the post-paid envelopes with their requests for $25, $100, or whatever I can give, I give them a list of people like Bloomberg, Clinton, Bush, Gates, Buffett, Soros, Gore, Obama, etc. that would be pleased and excited to give millions to their cause to ease their conciouses and guilt.
You made good points in your post #3.
Why doesn’t the UN just spend some of their billions of dollars to send folks over there and teach the Haitians how to terrace, fertilize and farm their land for food?
That said... I’m far past ready for the US to tell the UN to get out of our country. Reasons are too numerous to go into here.
Like we haven't?
UN Says Not Enough People Eating in Haiti.
Think about it.
“Braaaains. You got ‘em. We want ‘em.” Haiti’s underfed undead
obammy has made me callous.
He’s made so many problems here in the U.S. I really don’t give a damn what is happening in Haiti or nearly anywhere else.
I would like to see a coffee farm colony on top of one of Haiti’s mountains - Christian, armed, each family headed by a married man. Might be a successful model for the rest of Haiti.
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