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#148455 - 01/24/10 06:34 PM
Re: How Can We Help Haiti?
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The USA and the rest of the Western powers would block Haiti's reparation request on the same grounds that they did not recognized Haiti's independentce over 200 years ago. Their hands are also dirty and they know that if Haiti receive reparations, blacks throughout the hemisphere, particularly in the USA, would use Haiti as precedent to demand their own reparation, even if their circumstance is somewhat different. They wouldn't want to have that ants nest disturbed.
Actually Haiti should be asking France for both restitution and reparation. Restitution of the money Haiti paid them and reparations for slavery.
This request is better off done from the outside. Any request from a politician inside of Haiti would only bring more sponsored coups and further destabilization.
I can't believe Haitians did not make the world more aware of this injustice prior to now. Maybe the Haitians saw it as a land purchase from France since France supposedly had legal claim to it.
Well, it is not just "now" that the "injustice" was brought forward. For one, the last article above was written in 2004. People have been calling out the injustice for quite some time what changed in recent years is that a head of state, Aristede while in power, was joining the cause and was calling for the repayment but that was back in 2003/2004. I am sure i posted a few articles during the ousting of aristede and made the point back then while arguing with, i think, HaitiBalll on whether Aristede should be removed and that his ousting was related to his call for reparations.
While the outpouring of "sympathy" for Haiti during this crisis we should use this as a "teachable moment" and get whatever public support that is needed for critical mass in order to get France to act.
Actually Haiti should be asking France for both restitution and reparation. Restitution of the money Haiti paid them and reparations for slavery.
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#148534 - 01/26/10 12:20 PM
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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/26/us/26orphans.html
ROCA, Neb. — Dieunette babbles a constant stream of baby talk and flashes big expressive eyes, but she has trouble sleeping and is fussy from fighting a tapeworm. Bettania is a quiet explorer, spending her days walking from room to room, running her hands over the grand piano, flicking light switches on and off, staring at the billiards table and fireplace, all the while silent but clearly in fascination.
The Heaton family prayed during the girls’ first meal there.
One week ago, the two little girls, now the most celebrated new residents of this tiny town, had lives confined to the concrete walls of a Haitian orphanage, beside a ravine clogged with the bodies of earthquake victims.
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#148570 - 01/27/10 09:44 AM
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Haiti govt gets only 1 cent of every US aid dollar
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Only 1 cent of each dollar the U.S. is spending on earthquake relief in Haiti is going in the form of cash to the Haitian government, according to an Associated Press review of relief efforts.
Less than two weeks after President Obama announced an initial $100 million for Haiti earthquake relief, U.S. government spending on the disaster has tripled to $317 million at latest count. That's just over $1 each from everyone in the United States.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100127/ap_on_bi_ge/lt_haiti_us_aid
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#148756 - 01/30/10 08:30 AM
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If you live in Jamaica you can send a text 'HELP' to 125 to donate $25 (digicel). You can send the text to other number to donate different contributions check this link:
http://www.facebook.com/helphaiti?v=app_7146470109
To this date Digicel has raise $6 million dollars -- US$600k
At the link there are ways to donate through Digicel Internationally.
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#149727 - 02/11/10 08:34 AM
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http://www.normangirvan.info/rickey-singh-caricom-france-repay-debt-to-haiti/
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#151062 - 03/09/10 11:12 AM
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Things are very bad in Haiti, over two months now and the majority of the people are still not getting basic needs. We have to continue to pray & give of our resources.
SINCE IT'S NOT BIG NEW ANYMORE....The CNN's of the world just use Haiti for ratings and now place it on the back pages.
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#152132 - 03/31/10 02:59 PM
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Foreign donors pledge more than $4.8 billion to rebuild Haiti
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World Bank Pledges Half Billion U.S. Dollars for Haiti Over 14 Months
By JACQUELINE CHARLES
jcharles@MiamiHerald.com
UNITED NATIONS -- Pledging to work in partnership with a Haitian-led reconstruction effort, foreign aid donors Wednesday promised more than $4.8 billion toward rebuilding the earthquake-ravaged country.
Heading the line of pledges at the start of the much-anticipated Donors Conference was the United States with $1.15 billion of the $2.8 billion the Obama administration is seeking from Congress to help jump-start the country's recovery over the next 18 months.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton set the tone for the gathering of at least 120 nations at the meeting, calling on Haiti's leaders to take responsibility for paving the way ahead. She told the international community -- known at times to work at cross purposes on Haiti -- it can no longer be business-as-usual.
``We cannot retreat to failed strategies,'' she said.
World Bank President Robert Zoellick put it much more bluntly as he urged donors to take advantage of a multidonor trust fund that Haiti's government has strongly endorsed as a key component of its reconstruction. The fund -- to be administered by the government and World Bank -- would allow donors to pool money for future projects.
``Please avoid feel-good flag-waving projects,'' Zoellick said, ``because building islands of developments in a sea of deprivation won't get us where we need to go.''
The urge to come to Haiti's rescue following the massive Jan.12 quake has been visible since the devastation left more than 300,000 dead and an equal number of Haitians injured. But the enthusiasm, which fueled a response from 140 nations around the globe, also spurred fierce competition in the walk-up to the conference.
There were nations that demanded an opportunity to speak, and there were those who as late as this week, continued to jockey for more of a say in the Interim Haiti Recovery Commission, which will guide the dollars and construction over the next 18 months and lay the foundation for a Haiti Redevelopment Authority. For now, nations that provide $100 million in aid over the next two years, or $200 million in debt relief, will have a voting say in the reconstruction.
The framework still requires the approval of Haiti's parliament, and Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive on Wednesday alluded to issues that still need to be worked on. He and President René Préval, who also attended the session, have both focused their talks on the trust fund. The United States and other countries have focused on the entire effort.
Still, what remained unclear Wednesday even as nation after nation pledged aid -- from $20 million by Qatar to $172 million from Brazil -- was the priorities of the Haitian government. In a country where everything is needed, from schools to hospitals to decent housing to job creation, the international community has called on the Préval government to provide clarity.
``Very critical for the reconstruction plan of Haiti to be successful that we build in disaster preparedness and disaster response,'' Kristalina Georgieva, a representative of the European Union, said at a news conference. ``We also see a very important balance to be struck between reconstructing the part of the island that was hit by the earthquake and building the economy of the rest of Haiti....In this respect, the investment in rural development and agriculture are very important.''
Other priorities should include improving the lives of the women of Haiti, Clinton and others here said. Meanwhile, Préval thanked the international community for its efforts and called for not just direct budget support -- the country has a $350 million budget gap -- but education.
U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon also told leaders not to forget that there remains an urgent need on the ground in Haiti in getting shelter to 1.3 million homeless, and feeding those individuals. So far, he said a humanitarian appeal for $1.4 million has only been funded by 50 percent.
He called Haiti's blueprint for a national strategy to rebuild ``concrete, specific . . . and above all ambitious.''
``Again, to quote the president,'' he said, ``it is a plan to create `a new Haiti.' ''
Miami Herald special correspondent Stewart Stogel contributed to this report
Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/03/31/1557002/foreign-donors-pledge-money-haiti.html#ixzz0jnWTj7K9
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#152838 - 04/16/10 01:54 PM
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Members of the Haitian National Soccer team arrive at the San Antonio International Airport, Wednesday, April 14, 2010 in San Antonio. The Haitian National soccer team, who's home field is being used as a temporary home for homeless Haitians, will practice in Texas for the next two to three weeks
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#152839 - 04/16/10 01:54 PM
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Haiti v. Argentina , May 5 Buenos Aires.
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#153536 - 04/28/10 08:06 PM
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AUSTIN, Texas (www.austinaztex.com) -- Wednesday night the Aztex took on the Haitian National Team at House Park in an exhibition that ended in a 0-0 draw. However, the biggest story in the match turned out to be from off the pitch, as more than 4,000 fans filled House Park and raised $11,500 for the Haitian National Team.
Donations were made throughout the match and went directly to the Haitian team. Pooled with money raised from friendlies with FC Dallas and Trinity, the team was able to raise more than $20,000 in their two and a half weeks.
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