Haiti after the Earth Quake - Haiti Striving

Although there has been progress in food delivery, medical care etc., Haiti is still  striving to stand.Around 2 million people are homeless,  living in camps where diseases such as tetanus, typhoid fever, and malaria are emerging

The price of food

The price of heavily subsidized, imported rice has  increased 25% since the earthquake to $3.71 a 2.7-kilo (6-pound) bag, according to USAID. Corn is up more than 25% andwheat has increased by half. Charcoal, needed for cooking, has shot up 17%.With no jobs or homes, and nowhere to go, help from others -- and each other -- means everything…

Rubble removal:

According to Charles Clermont, a Haitian government advisor and prominent businessman, this  job would require a fleet of approximately 1,000 trucks working 24 hours a day for two years.

Around 35,000 Haitians are working in the program, known as Cash-for-Work, in which the U.N., through local officials, pays each worker about $4.50 a day. The program is costing the U.N. about $175,000 a day. The agency has requested about $35 million to cover Cash-for-Work costs for the next few months and hopes to increase the Cash-for-Work workforce to about 100,000 people in the next few weeks, and eventually to 200,000 people. The cost estimate for rubble removal can approach billions of dollars.

The U.N. engineers' initial estimated the amount of rubble to be removed is at a minimum of 63 million cubic meters, about five million more than the debris produced by Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, which was enough to fill 13 Superdomes.
 
IHC was visiting the industrial park and the CPFO NGO , working the for more than 25 years