The 2nd Thread For 7/12/10: The Slowest Aid Ever
Photo from Gallo and Getty You wouldn't be happy too if the aid was so slow to come like it has : It has been six months since a seven magnitude earthquake struck Haiti. As many as a quarter of a million people died and 1.5 million more were rendered homeless. Despite a major reconstruction effort many Haitians fear, not enough is being done to rebuild the devastated island nation. Mother of four Carmen Hypolite said: “We were expecting a change in our situation because they were speaking only about reconstruction, but the way things are going, we could be waiting five or 10 years, even for the rest of our lives and see nothing happen.” So slow, and so little : The technical obstacles to reconstruction are immense. But the political roadblocks are larger. Immediately after the quake $10bn in international aid was pledged. As of June 30, only 10 per cent of the $2.5bn promised for 2010 had been delivered. A lot of it has been held up in political wrangling. The intern...