News Information

• NEWS_POSTED_BY: Haiti Place
• NEWS_POSTED_ON: Apr 28, 2015
• Views : 750
• Category : Haiti News
• Description : The Chronicle of Philanthropy
  NEWS AND ANALYSIS
  APRIL 24, 2015
  
  
  Photo: JOE RAEDLE, GETTY IMAGES
  Kids stand outside the camp where they live with their families built on land where their homes once stood before the 2010 earthquake struck, destroying their homes and killing as many as 316,000 people in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Five years later many tent camps and shantytowns that once sheltered some 1.5 million people now hold about 80,000 as the government tries to move them into permanent homes.
• Location : Haiti
• Website : https://philanthropy.com/article/HBO-Report-Slams-Aid-Efforts/229613

Overview

• Despite billions of dollars and earnest promises, living conditions for many Haitians remain deplorable five years after the devastating earthquake there. The culprit is a broken U.S. foreign-aid system, with no easy fixes.
  
  That is the grim takeaway from an investigation conducted by the news program Vice, to air Friday on HBO.
  
  Vice reporter Vikram Gandhi spent two weeks in Haiti in September visiting urban refugee-camps-turned-slums in the capital, Port-au-Prince. Missing were running water, electricity, and toilets.
  
  "When you moved here, how long did you think you were going to stay?" Mr. Gandhi asks one resident of the tent city Delmas 33.
  
  "Well, I didn’t think I would be here for even a year," the resident responded. "Now it feels like forever."
  
  Mr. Gandhi also takes his audience to the outskirts of the city to the Canaan settlement, populated by thousands of Haitians with nowhere to go after the 2010 earthquake. They have put down roots, building modest shelters, and eking out lives, far from the services of foreign nonprofits.
  
  Read more here >>