http://www.theage.com.au/national/plan-helps-haiti-pick-up-pieces-20100212-nxl8.html

Foreign aid workers in Haiti are paying locals US $5 a day to clear rubbish off the streets in a scheme that recalls a great Australian school yard tradition – the emu parade.

The so-called ”cash-for-aid” program hopes to tackle both challenges together in the early stage of a recovery plan that has an ambitious goal to eventually put more than 200,000 people into temporary work.

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Ooooh, boy. Nothing could go wrong with this at all…….. Naaaaaaah. It’s all good.

God help the people of Haiti.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9DQ1UKG0

Port-Au-Prince, Haiti (AP) – A pre-dawn rain shower soaked tens of thousands living in rudimentary shelters in Haiti’s capital Thursday, an alarming taste of the havoc a sustained tropical downpour could wreak on this earthquake-ravaged country.

Most of the estimated 1.2 million people that the U.N. says are living in temporary camps across Haiti dwell in simple structures made of bed sheets and plastic sheeting. Officials warn that more permanent shelter must be had before the rainy season begins within weeks.

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…..and what resembles a government in Haiti still has it’s hand out….. for a massive cut of all aid sent before they’d even consider letting even a microscopic amount of it get to the people.

The UN is a major part of the problem as well, because they continue to acknowledge and enable evil. As to what America will do…… Ha !…… Obama’s looking more and more as if he truly doesn’t care about people from non-Muslim lands.

The people of Haiti haven’t a clue that they may be able (let alone know how) to rise up themselves and stop their enslavement.

When things break loose there – and it’s coming – the earthquake will seem mild in comparison.

Port-Au-Prince, Haiti – AP
Fourteen-month-old Abigail Charlot survived Haiti’s cataclysmic earthquake but not its miserable aftermath. Brought into the capital’s General Hospital with fever and diarrhea, little Abigail literally dried up.

And while the half-million people jammed into germ-breeding makeshift camps have so far been spared a contagious-disease outbreak, health officials fear epidemics. They are rushing to vaccinate 530,000 children against measles, diphtheria, tetanus and whooping cough.

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Violence bred of food shortages and inadequate security is also producing casualties. Dr. Santiago Arraffat of Evansville, Ind., said he treats several gunshot wounds a day at General Hospital.

“People are just shooting each other,” he said. “There are fights over food. People are so desperate.”

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At a Save the Children clinic west of the capital, about 30 people stood in line for help. Camp residents subsisting in part on plantains from an adjacent grove said two adults and five children died of starvation there last week. A clinic doctor, Nermie Augustin, said she was seeing a lot of infants with diarrhea.

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I’m not gonna get into the desperation/violence part…… I can’t. I get too emotional.

However, am I the only one who thinks something is a tad amiss on the medical end ?…….. The U.N., W.H.O. and others are vaccinating children and adults who’s immune systems are at best “strained” from weeks of spotty or no substantive nutrition and the vaccines can possibly make many of them deathly ill. I’m praying the ‘officials’ are aware of that little fact and get the people back into condition well enough to withstand vaccines.

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Call me a cynical bastage, I don’t care….. But I’m guessing it’s getting close to the time for our Dictator In Training Pants to get his “I was there” photo op.

If he goes, everything and everyone trying to help people down there will be frozen in place hours before arrival, during his ‘visit’ and a bit of time after he leaves.

I’ll be there for the conference.

http://www.haiticonference.com/
http://www.connectionmiami.com/

What I’m now trying to figure out is where all the Red Cross money went.

Just heard from a doc who’s down there….. he went on a radio show my friend Joyce hosts…… He’s saying the Red Cross is non-existent in the areas he’s working…… The airport and downtown Port-Au-Prince.

If anyone feels like helping, please do so…… Getting info isn’t easy and verifying it is harder.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S.-based lawyer for one of 10 American Baptists charged with child kidnapping in Haiti appealed Tuesday for Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to personally intervene in the case.

They said the case was complicated by the chaotic situation in Haiti and asked Clinton to speak directly to Haitian authorities about letting the families of the detainees talk with them to ensure their well-being.

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If the esteemed and ever-vigilant Secretary Of State can’t git-r-done, the choir-invisible will herald from on high for The Won to rescue those held in captiv……. Oh wait……. They’re Christians.

Never mind.