On January 12th, 2010 a massive, 7.0 in the Richter-Scale, earthquake, smashed into the small country of Haiti. In the past, Haiti has received difficult blows, and in response this newest tragedy, award-winning columnist Leonard Pitts wrote an article. Although it is not all about Haiti. In Leonard Pitts’ article, “Sometimes the Earth is Cruel,” Pitts’ purpose is to convey how important it is for more fortunate people to help the less fortunate people in this world in times of disaster, and he uses multiple devices to support his purpose.…
In the book The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster by Jonathan M. Katz we learn that all help is not helpful, but we can change that. In 2010 an earthquake hit Haiti, being one of the worse things to happen to this already poor country. This book provides us with a lot of information about the before and after of the Haiti earthquake. Help was provided to help rebuild, but some solutions worked and some didn’t. Instead of focusing on what will be noticed by the outside world, Haiti needed what would help them rebuild as a country.…
Aids and Accusation Aids and Accusation, written by Paul Farmer, is a book that truly captures and describes the epidemiology and history of HIV/AIDS in Haiti. Farmer’s immergence into the Haitian community during his research, alongside his educational background as a medical anthropologist and physician, contributed greatly to his approach of providing a deeply holistic understanding of HIV/AIDS in Haiti to the public for the first time (Farmer 2006:253). Through ethnographical, epidemiological and historical data, Farmer shows how the effects of social inequalities, such as racism and poverty, were the main contributors of how the suffering, illness, disease, and violence effects of HIV/AIDS were distributed amongst people in Haiti, and…
Haiti, the poorest country in the world, with over half of the population living in extreme poverty, is in desperate need of help (“Poverty in Haiti: Aid, Earthquakes, and Imperialism”). The level of poverty in Haiti is so high that it stands out from the other countries in Latin America. Because of extreme poverty, children are often separated from their families and end up living in orphanages. Many Haitians live on the streets with no access to clean water, and do not have the money nor the resources to overcome poverty (“Top 5 Facts about Poverty in Haiti”). Throughout history and today, Haitians have lived in poverty with small chance of being able to provide for themselves and their families, but organizations such as KORE…
This essay includes the history, demographics, location and geography, economics, education, government, health care of Haiti that explains the way the nation as a whole works. It focuses on different aspects of the country and how they are trying to improve their health care system. The country realized how much they needed to step up their game after the 2010 earthquake left the whole nation devastated. As a nation the government and the people need to work together in order to create a stronger and modern health care infrastructure. The country needs trained professionals and medical devices to better help the future generations in living a healthier and happier life.…
“At 4:53 p.m. on Tuesday, January 12, 2010, Haiti plunged into horror” (Lahens, 2010, p. 9). The earthquake affected three and a half million individuals, left two hundred and twenty thousand people dead, and destroyed four thousand schools (DEC, 2015). It is safe to say that Haiti’s recent history has been dramatically shaped by the 7.0 magnitude earthquake (DEC, 2015) that struck in 2010. Understanding both the gravity of and the world’s response to the 2010 earthquake is essential in understanding the destructive relationship that has existed between Protestant medical missionaries and Vodun practitioners. Before exploring the historical and spiritual concepts of healing in Haiti, an overview of the current context of Haiti post-earthquake…
This is for the reason that culture, politics, environment, health, and history factors. Health care system in Haiti has huge impacts on vulnerable populations such as the mentally ill, elderly, the poor, and children (Bristol, 2010). The World Health Organization and the Pan American Health Organization (WHO/PAHO) associated with the participation in the development of short as well as medium response on mental health and rehabilitation issues (Bristol, 2010). Access to health care for the vulnerable has been an administrative challenge, whereas the vulnerable groups are unable to healthcare aid, hence paying 100% of the costs of accessing care (Ivers, 2011). Access to medical care by the vulnerable groups in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria, and Ghana is limited just like in the case of Haiti cite The Russian Federation offers free access to medical care to its most vulnerable groups while India has a universal health care system that includes social and national health insurance cite.…
In America we constantly hear about other countries and Haiti is one of them especially after the Earthquake that kills and injured thousands of people. Since then Haiti has been doing its best to rebuild up the country. Let the adventures began to discover Haiti’s culture, background history, and uncontrollable damage that has been done.…
Hundreds of years agos Haiti was the first independent nation of the Americas and the first place to abolish slavery. Now it’s one of the poorest country in the world and the poorest in the Americas. There is a lot of children dying because they don’t have any food to eat and there is no free education. To solve those problems, the country has to become communist.…
I am from Haiti this is the story of my life and how people think I am so “Rich and everything that I have are “handed” to me. When I was in Haiti I was living in the smallest house you could possibly imagine. Life was hard I had to work for everything and I mean work hard some days are better than others. Sometime it could be a great day where my mom come home and she is able to cook us something to eat, but some days when she come home from being gone all day she come home with nothing.…
Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things is a story about trauma. Told through a series of nonlinear flashbacks, the reader learns of the effects of the event known as “The Terror” long before the narrative reveals its causes. As the novel progresses, the reader is able to piece together not only the events which directly lead to the death of Sophie Mol (and Velutha) and the emptiness and quietness of the twin main characters, Rahel and Estha, but also the societal and cultural systems at play which informed the environment in which these tragedies took place. These systems, in turn, were constructed and reconstructed by the overarching, pervasive trauma of colonialism. In Trauma and Recovery, Judith Herman discusses how trauma disrupts identity and self-image and while Herman focuses primarily on the individual, these principles…
Most Haitians are proud of being Haitian. The members of the nation show this openly, although it baffles most from other countries. What reasons do the Haitians have to be proud? The country is one of the poorest in the world but, nevertheless, it’s citizens be proud of their origin and location. Although people living in the United States have a lot of resources, currency, and are fairly progressive when it comes to social accomplishments, the citizens do not seem proud of the country they live in.…
Introduction Haiti, officially named the Republic of Haiti, is a Caribbean country that shares the island of Hispaniola with its neighboring country the Dominican Republic. The name “Haiti” comes from Hayti, meaning “mountainous.” Port-au-Prince is the capital and the most populous city of Haiti. Haiti is encircled in a nation of approximately eight million inhabitants. The currency of Haiti is Gourde and a republic government represents the country.…
In I was born in Haiti and there are disasters that happen very often in Haiti. Which cannot be control. Disasters do not just occur in Haiti; it hits all over the world. Being that Haiti does not have the support system like we do here in the United States, it takes that part years to rebuild. I have lived and still visit Haiti and I can tell you that it is a beautiful place to live because there are many different parts.…
Before the earthquake in 2010, Haiti’s health care system was finally making a step forward. However, the earthquake quickly destroyed the small infrastructure Haiti had. The country lacks sufficient number of trained nurses, doctors, and medical staff. Haiti is trapped in a period of disease, disability, and poverty, (Redmond, n.d.). Although dozens of organizations bring medical relief work over to Haiti, it simply isn’t enough to reinstate the infrastructure of Haiti.…