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Haiti Numbers – 27 Days After Quake
890 million. Amount of international debt that Haiti owes creditors. Finance ministers from developing countries announced they will forgive $290 million. Source: Wall Street Journal
644 million. Donations for Haiti to private organizations have exceed $644 million. Over $200 million has gone to the Red Cross, who had 15 people working on health projects in Haiti before the earthquake. About $40 million has gone to Partners in Health, which had 5,000 people working on health in Haiti before the quake. Source: New York Times.
1 million. People still homeless or needing shelter in Haiti. Source: MSNBC.
1 million. People who have been given food by the UN World Food Program in Port au Prince – another million in Port au Prince still need help. Source: UN World Food Program.
300,000. People injured in the earthquake, reported by Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive. Source: CNN.
212,000. People reported killed by earthquake by Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive. Source: CNN..
63,000. There are 63,000 pregnant women among the people displaced by the earthquake. 7,000 women will deliver their children each month. Source: UN Populations Fund.
17,000. Number of United States troops stationed on or off coast in Haiti, down from a high of 22,000. Source: AFP.
9,000. United Nations troops in Haiti. Source: Miami Herald.
7,000. Number of tents distributed by United Nations. Miami Herald. President Preval of Haiti has asked for 200,000 tents. Source: Reuters.
4,000. Number of amputations performed in Haiti since the earthquake. Source: AFP.
900. Number of latrines that have been dug for the people displaced from their homes. Another 950,000 people still need sanitation. Source: New York Times.
75. An hourly wage of 75 cents per hour is paid by the United Nations Development Program to people in Haiti who have been hired to help in the clean up. The UNDP is paying 30,000 people to help clean up Haiti, 180 Haitian Gourdes ($4.47) for six hours of work. The program hopes to hire 100,000 people. Source: United Nations News Briefing.
1.25. The U.S. is pledged to spend as much as $379 million in Haitian relief. This is about $1.25 for each person in the United States. Source: Canadian Press.
1. For every one dollar of U.S. aid to Haiti, 42 cents is for disaster assistance, 33 cents is for the U.S. military, 9 cents is for food, 9 cents is to transport the food, 5 cents to pay Haitians to help with recovery effort, 1 cent is for the Haitian government and ½ a cent is for the government of the Dominican Republic. Source: Associated Press.
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Show AllAppalling numbers. The most disgusting however is the 17,000 American troops. The Haitians need people to help, not oppress them.
So you'd rather have hundreds if not thousands of Haitians die?
US personel is saving countless lives. The 1,000 bed USS Comfort is filled to capacity. The Naval Warships off the coast are distilling hundreds of thousands of gallons of water every day for the Haitian population. The carrier has delivered tons of supplies to people who are unreachable due to the collapsed transportation network. Obviously you ignore all the stories about children be picked up by US military helicopters and flown to military field hospitals...or maybe you hate the military so much that you'd rather have the children die than have them saved by the military.
Have you no humanity?
33 cents too much for the American military!
These numbers are what really contributes to the horror of this disaster and now, in another post here at CD, the haggling over the contracts to 'rebuild' is or has been started and, gee, let me guess here, now who would be most likely to get the juiciest ones? Think halliburton would have enough resources 'get her done'?
And when halliburton gets the contracts, would that mean a job opening for people needing work? Not unless your some poor soul willing to work for the lowest wages.
Halliburton I believe is an oil services company. I don't think they can get a contract to clean up. Or can they?
One of the first if not the first to go into New Orleans to clean up and rebuild, courtesy of dick cheney and disaster capitalism.
Oh, and don't forget the subsidiary, KBR, major private contractor of the military.
WHO CARES?
It's strange that in America we find it so much easier to understand problems in a far away country than in our own backyard.
If you walk around with a can asking for donations to end homelessness and hunger in your own city or town, you'll hardly get a dime. If you ask for Haiti donations you get a bundle.
I find it disturbing that millions of dollars fly unchecked and unaccounted for overseas to help a nation that doesn't even like us, while we have people freezing to death in our own country because they have no home.
Withdraw all support to Haiti immediately.