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Doctors Without Borders
Haiti: HOWTO set up a plug-and-play hospital – Doctors Without Border
Aid Groups Focus on Haiti’s Homeless
New York Times
JACMEL, Haiti — Haiti has approved plans for more than a dozen sprawling tent cities in and around Port-au-Prince, the first step in an epic relocation effort that could reshape the country as up to one million people displaced by the earthquake find new places to live.
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Logic and emotion
It was an earthquake. A really big one. Turns out the reaction and response reaches every corner of the globe. Perturbative, this event has challenged the dimensions of security, of rules sets, of money, of infrastructure, and of resources; and the world is challenged to provide strategic flows of security, aid, money, the [...]
Earthquakes make bad laws
National Post, Marni Soupcoff, Monday, January 18, 2010
“Canada’s government is suggesting that significantly relaxing requirements (family-reunification requirements, in particular) for Haitians to come here as immigrants and refugees would be a good way for us to lend a hand.”
Immigrants and refugees: Who gets chosen?
Soupcoff writes, “The move would be tantamount to [...]
The Crisis in Haiti
“When disaster strikes the second disaster that looms is the efficiency and impact of the three R’s – Response, Recovery and Reconstruction. As seen by the poor response by FEMA after Hurricane Katrina, lives are lost when a coordinated effort is not conducted. In a developing country like Haiti the biggest danger [...]
Error Threat Level for Haiti: Condition Red
Consider what Joesph T. Hallinan exposes about Why why we make mistakes and the power of regret:
“The penchant for inaction is not surprising. If we are going to err at something, we would rather err by failing to act. That’s because we tend to view inaction as a passive [...]
Perturbating the order of civilization
Beneath Nature’s ground, an earthquake in Haiti.
One so devastating, it shocks Culture into chaos;
local Governance has no assembly.
With its Infrastructure crushed,
there is no capacity for Commerce;
and Fashion has no market.
Doctors are on the way
As is food and water. But who will administer the system? Who will provide physical security so [...]
… What’s next?
To what will you commit?
For how long?
Just saying.
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