PORT-AU-PRINCE Friday, February 12
TODAY government has decided to `a day of mourning and prayer national population extension of two days: three full days .... All faiths since Pastors, as well as priests and "houngans" (voodoo priest) spoke before thousands of faithful across the city and province on makeshift podiums, not broadcast on radio and TV .. that work!
.... You should know that `s the time of carnival and the carnival ... in Haiti is the largest folk festival appreciated by everyone and in this context, not debauchery ... but what I have seen and heard TODAY was a "carnival evangelical! an outlet for all that angst people in those moments ....
Life resumes, certainly not the same .. because we can not be overlooked by those who are no longer, loss of any kind and to a future so uncertain.
The main problem, say the most pressing is how to relocate the one million people homeless, temporarily or not, before the rainy season is imminent heavy rain yesterday morning, only an hour `s, has created the panic in many places.
Tents and tarpaulins under which people take refuge no longer enough, also "houses" of sheet metal and wood salvaged from the rubble, grow everywhere in downtown which is becoming a real slum ....
It seems that, in both government and international organizations, don `t have an answer in the short or medium term. D `interminable meetings birth Mouse! Coordination of the aid is `a very complex problem, issues may be important? political and economic rivalries? ... Need a higher intensity at 7.2 on the Richter scale for `return human consciousness to the reality and needs of the population?
The presence of one contingent of 20 .. 000 IM `S territory questions us all: why the many humanitarian soldiers, who only walk the streets and hand out bags of rice of 25 kgs? One can not deny the importance of `` humanitarian aid in these moments, because Haiti can not cope with this disaster with its precarious and insufficient resources, but should we not consider more effective solutions, thinking also to revive small business, small businesses, instead of "empty" tons of food, drugs after 1 month and again to put at least six- somewhere destroy an already fragile economy?
For example, local pharmaceutical companies no longer sell their products to hospitals, as help in getting free drugs is huge on these.
Rice poured by international `s not always accompanied by products as" peas "(beans),` s oil, salt. ... Then people sell rice to buy something else! ... At the risk of getting arrested.
There are organizations that calculate food rations for five days, the quantity and quality of food to distribute. There are also community structures, such as neighborhood committees, which are completely forgotten despite their expertise and knowledge of the field. Why? ...
We see daily examples of cons, "debauchery humanitarian": food market (buying food, preparing them) who `s to hold hot foods on a neighborhood ... Why not deal with them? ? a form of revival of their economies ... In six months they will be - being more fight? One might think
in 2010 until many years after the outbreak of `organizations` s emergency management after `s countless disasters in the world, the" brains " have examples and data to build and adapt to the situation.
These moments are crucial ... that could turn the country mired in a long and lasting crisis is at hand if the latter is poorly made, the development that `s will not be 'sustainable' it !!!!! !
I do not know `s it like to pray ... TODAY ... if that is enough.
Differences resume `s voice after 15 days 'convergence': c` is human of course, the big shock is past, the natural change their spots. But beyond these considerations, reality reminds us: destruction, rubble, homelessness, loss of lives, property, work, and leaves me with doubts: "replica" still felt by many outweigh certain values and they especially those that should help us to listen to rebuild despite all the challenges of each of others?
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January 30
I finally sleep with me ... after stage comedy seen from afar, I've slept out in front of the court pdt ds nb days, then on the terrace in Isabella, then under their canopy, then in their apartment door open ... but then my house door open gallery .. ds and my bed, door open, and then finally ds my bed and closed door .... whew ... but I sleep tt dressed !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
but tt qq hand again, and may be an unprecedented chance or not ... I do not know ....
in case tt qq rare thing in life: to see and start from scratch ds life of a country `s` a group of individuals! losing the landmarks and redo of others ....
But a clean slate we were not personal request of effort .... finally there is not much to envy, nor believe superstar !!!!!!!
tjs ..... it has been easier !!... heaven or / and the earth have decided for us = fairly regardless of race and color ........... . Terribly hard!
we'll see what comes out of tt ca ..... not alone with hands, heads and hearts
c `s an idea this morning
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January 23
Some are beginning to come to their senses and think" after "... because now it is invasive` s assistance in all forms, although proof of solidarity, but `a Such disorganization sometimes that `we want to laugh or bite!!
C is a fair bit of `grabs and who will do that better and more visible than his neighbor who ...... that` s another to a landowner like him !!!!!
Sometimes one can not help laughing `s see what they want or imagine the relief those conditions .. ds to see what they bring`: it `s not the case here only.
we landed two boxes of corn plasters to the feet ... But
We were also landed bcp useful things you must know to separate things.
ago tjs wholesale wounded but `s support after all that worried qd emergency will be left, from here 15 days later. coordination is extremely difficult, the government has a crisis but operations difficult to achieve.
We try to resume all activities possible; `s school is a comprehensive open and empty of proposals for the time and those who have children, wait .. I do not know what miracle .. (I also do a little part of those who wait .. we can not have answer to tt !!!!!).
The buildings are still falling, the shocks continue breves ... but we do not feel all !!!... `s imagination ...
bcp coninuent people to leave Prince P, pure province but will saturate the already weak service and after return qq cra time they find the capital has to do more than their village ds.
morale tt the world is vague ... by bcp "variable" objective or subjective ..!! ..................... A friend brings a bottle of `water near where she sleeps evc lighted a candle to monitor .. if it moves!" ! it is not all but jumps very quickly .... all for nothing.
but we all live again ... what! ________________
22,
TODAY city `s activity resumed.
but there are still those devils that leave us shaking the beating heart ....
machinery and bulldozers are clearing the buildings on the ground, cut them .... everyone `salvaged what he could.
the commercial flock the streets ... ds it `s case!
neighborhoods are still strewn all ... no `ds equality distributions from WFP, but there are some who are.
the evening `s atmosphere re-appears shy but vital: music on street corners, strong, card games, dominoes and jokes of all kinds ...
There is some water, trucks, public service .. but later it will be more difficult: the USA, the Dominicans and the french have their technology for the country.
Foreign Embassies + + + are requested planned departures and Opportunities: J have seen a dozen passports missing or dead ... or not between `al` s embassy en ... people sometimes try to make their own from the .. debrouille is a must! signs of life.
the clinic SOE-MDM ... we still have not cared for wounded since the "thing" .. but it decreases chronic normal this season, not yet .... it `s epidemics can not not be done.
We tell our stories, those of other fuels more daily ca ... for a while now ... like what happens !!!!!!
must qd same report and thank the Dominican Republic who spoke the first, the very next day: firefighters first aid, water, food ... .. IMPORTANT given the fraternal relations not always between the two countries. __________________________
January 21
A little resume: the `help with medical, major surgery CISA is many well organized, all hospitals are working with strong teams of international diaspora and local. The main problem is the `supply materials and equipment and fuel for all these people often come only with human resources. The teams work ds court of hospitals (no one wants to enter ds buildings, especially not sick) but between them, juxtaposed!! even in a hospital, not quotes, I see Americans, firefighter Francias and a Haitian staff who are working independently of each other: Patch-language and system of work ... .... There are even hospitals or there are too many people!
But after those big surgery, it will take chrage these patients. ... One to two months and will be distributed emergency. It is gently prepared with nationals. Many amputations
`... .. tt ages because of the crushed limbs don` t have not been treated early. The prostheses are bp.
In the provinces, ca `s also organizes gradually. The damage is lower, but bcp people have left the city and swell the ranks of those who can not absorb them. D `other people living in Port au Prince have become" urban " and will not remain in the province.
food Question: what is an MAP that manages the distribution, AC is going pretty well at the moment, they are there. There are about 70 camps of 500 to 2000 people identified in the capital. `The water is distributed correctly.
The prediction is in government, to 11 refugee camps around Port au Prince. ... ... Complete with bathroom and for how many years `???????
Fuel: hard up to the present and the current ... it `s not talk about it! The network of water works again the P to P or the pipes are not broken.
Despite all city and neighborhood life is returning slowly, sales food, bread, candles .. small trades (or the `s possible). People in the neighborhood nail wood sheets and salvaged els rubble and rebuild shelters toles very quickly. They want to move?
The Champ de Mars is a big pb: bcp too crowded, and no sanitation.
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Tuesday, January 19
For now c is not very organized. Wholesale: hospitals .. walk with aid. But the pb is logistics and gas because, except the Americans who have deep pockets (ds cars airplanes, aircraft carrier that purifies 14,000 gallons of water per day) the other foot has landed !!!!! requires vehicles without vehicle diesel is ... rare.
It `s also the pb` s food aid distribution: insecurity. The police lost bp world and begins to recover, but there are neighborhood committees weapons.
Some estimate precisely the damage.
There are still corpses ds Street. And charognards.Encore alive under rubble of it seems ..
Petion-ville is less affected and begins to walk plsu or less. An estimated 80,000
the MRTS collected, 500 people of the United Nations (effondremetn their office).
It `s not there yet tents, latrines are starting to widen.
Small wounded: bcp but dependent neighborhoods of solidarity among NGOs, friends ect ... some are already well organized, and despite all the smiles and jokes fuse for 2 days (not everywhere but most bcp). The prayers go up everywhere and quantity of all the streets. ...
It also tries to put health issues here and there.
affected areas in the province (south east, south part) are not yet-not-aid or nearly so P Prince needs. Roads are cut (Jacmel), making it more difficult. The
bp = still eat. There is enough but the silver is missing, because of no job daily and then the banks (for those who can) are overwritten for bcp.
Government ... ... ... it evaluates for 6 days.
Bcp people share with families in the provinces; better. But transportation is not even ok. And then the wounded arriving in the province quickly deplete the resources of the provincial hospital. They call orthopedic anaesthesistes ... they don `t have very little.
short c is not yet clear, despite only 6 days are passing nothing `s still very functional.
Bcp thieves and looters of all that is broken ... .. and open ... unscrupulous !!!!!
For the rest: keep in touch.
We try to assess the damage with a combination of my neighborhood, to channel people who want to do sth.
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