Scott Bonnell the Founder and CEO of Hope to Haiti. Shares about the water towers he is working on. I am planning a trip to Haiti with Scott in May.
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American Doctor and Volunteers Help Haiti Get Back on its Feet with World-Class Care
By Katie Couric
(CBS) In a dusty field 200 feet from the Port-au-Prince airport, a makeshift medical center treats life-threatening injuries and chronic illnesses.
“If they come in here, they’re treated as if they’re at Mass General, Mayo or University of Miami, anywhere in the world,” said Dr. Barth Green.
CBS News anchor Katie Couric reports Green was one of the first to arrive in Haiti after the earthquake.
“The first day,” he said, “we were literally off a plane, operating on a kitchen table.”
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Watch this Video from CBS- Notice the Shelterbox tents in the background
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Remarks After the Haiti Donors Conference
Today, the United Nations are united for Haiti. The international community has acted unanimously and for the long term. This is the down payment Haiti needs for wholesale national renewal. It is the way to building back better. Now, it comes down to implementation – delivery on our promises, transparency, and accountability. We must make sure Haiti gets the money it needs when it needs it. And we must guarantee that it is well-coordinated and well-spent.
I want to thank, once again, international community for their extraordinary generosity. This is international solidarity in action. I also want to thank co-host Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the five co-chairs present here for the successful outcome. My special appreciation should go to Special Envoy President Bill Clinton.
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At the time of this video being shot, ShelterBox has sent more than 8,000 ShelterBoxes to Haiti after the earthquake on January 12.
Each box contains emergency shelter provision and life saving supplies. In Haiti, ShelterBox has been working with the French Red Cross, the US 82nd Airborne Division, IOM, ACTED, the Dutch military, local Rotarians, Scouts, MSF and Handicap International.
Boxes have been distributed to the people in most need.
Please visit www.shelterbox.org to find out how you can help support ShelterBox’s work around the world.
Music: Alicia Keys – Send Me and Angel
Penrice Community College – Song for Haiti
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Two former U.S. presidents, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, toured Haiti’s earthquake damage and vowed to help kick-start the nation’s tattered economy.
Haiti’s President Rene Preval walks with former United States Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton as they shake hands with Haitians in the earthquakes survivors camp located in the Place Mosolee, next to the destroyed Haitian National Palace. Slideshow Courtesy of CHARLES TRAINOR JR / MIAMI HERALD STAFF
PORT-AU-PRINCE — Former Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton arrived in quake-ravaged Haiti on Monday, pledging to remind Americans that Haiti is still suffering and in need of long-term recovery and vowing to use the money they raise to help stimulate the country’s ailing economy.
Monday’s visit was the first joint trip to Haiti by the two presidents, who lead a fundraising drive aimed at helping Haitians support themselves. It was Bush’s first visit to Haiti, and Clinton’s third since the quake.
After arriving, the former presidents learned that Haitian President René Préval took a critical step toward boosting resettlement efforts in Haiti. He signed an executive order declaring the right to seize land through eminent domain, Clinton told The Miami Herald.
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ShelterBox Founder Tom Henderson has seen firsthand how ShelterBox tents are providing shelter to families who have lost everything in Haiti.
The charity’s CEO is in Port au Prince where 10,000 ShelterBox tents have been distributed to those left homeless in the tragedy, with thousands more tents on the way.
Tom has been undertaking a field assessment of ShelterBox’s operations in Haiti and meeting partner agencies who have provided support during one of the largest deployments in the charity’s history. He is joined by ShelterBox’s International Training Academy Manager Ben Spurway (UK) and ShelterBox Response Team member David Eby (US), one of the first aid workers to arrive in Port au Prince following the earthquake on January 12.
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CROIX-DES-BOUQUETS, Haiti — Brazilian peacekeepers operating oversized bulldozers and tractors cleared a barren lot of overgrown weeds and debris, prepping it for its newest residents.
But after days of digging 50 feet for water, the 25-acre site in the shadow of Haiti’s central mountain range was abruptly abandoned.
“There was no fresh water. The water underneath is salty,” said Charles Clermont, the Haitian businessman assigned to help the quake-devastated nation figure out how to shelter more than 1.2 million displaced people.
With the looming rainy season and housing proposals coming to disaster-prone Haiti, both government officials and relief workers are in a race against nature to relocate hundreds of thousands of quake victims living in squalid camps prone to flooding. But in their fervent pursuit of rain-resistant shelter, they are finding an old problem quickly becoming a new one: lack of suitable land.
Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/03/04/1513645/lack-of-land-in-haiti-squeezes.html#ixzz0kESp35E1
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ShelterBox Response Team members Tom Newman and Greg Rogers have been distributing tents in Jacmel. They distributed 250 ShelterBoxes in the area which is on the south of the island.
ShelterBox Head of Operations, John Leach said: ‘We are continuing to spread our net beyond Port au Prince . A newly arrived two man team comprising of Greg Rogers (UK) and Tom Newman (UK) headed south to Jacmel. They’ve wasted no time in assessing needs and setting up the first camps. Tom, who is on his first deployment, has been doing a great job in running logistics from Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic) and now has his chance to get out in the field.’
Please visit www.shelterbox.org to find out ways you can support ShelterBox’s work around the globe.
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With rains becoming more frequent, most displaced earthquake survivors in Haiti don’t have adequate shelter more than six weeks after the quake.
Story by BY PATRICIA MAZZEI – Miami Herald Staff Report
BOUTILIER, Haiti — The thick gray tarpaulins could not come soon enough to this little mountain neighborhood high in the mountains above Port-au-Prince where the earth is brick red and the unpaved roads are littered with dusty gray rubble and rocks.
More than six weeks after the Jan. 12 earthquake that wrecked the capital and its environs, Nepalese soldiers from the United Nations distributed tarps in Boutilier to quake survivors grateful to finally get something to put over their heads. continue reading
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Feb 10, 2010 – By Mac Margolis and Lucy Conger | Newsweek Web Exclusive
Hollywood couldn’t have done it better. Late in the afternoon on Jan. 22, an armored car packed with $2 million in cash rolled out of J.P. Morgan Chase headquarters in downtown Miami, headed to the Homestead Air Force Base. Thirty-four bricks of bank notes packed into ordinary office supply boxes were loaded onto a C-17 transport plane redeployed from Langley, Va., and dispatched to Haiti, lighting up switchboards at the United Nations, the U.S. State Department, the Federal Reserve, and military rescue bases in Port-au-Prince.
Before dawn the next day, the stash was on a helicopter bound for 34 branches of microlender Fonkoze. While Port-au-Prince’s nine commercial banks were in a shambles and Western Union was paralyzed, half of Fonkoze’s 42 agencies were up and running in four days, and all but two of the rest within a week. The amounts were trifling: no more than a few dollars per client. But for tens of thousands of desperate Haitians, the nimble infusion of cash amid the chaos and ruin literally meant survival. For the legions of aid bureaucrats, charities, civic groups, and emergency organizations struggling to get a grip on the Western hemisphere’s worst natural disaster in memory, Fonkoze’s nationwide client base of 200,000 depositors (50,000 of whom are also borrowers) was a ready-made lifeline. Could microcredit be the new Red Cross?
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