Haiti Aftermath

On sunday, an official reported the burying of over 150,000 quake victims by the government. As, Yahoo news describes, this number doesn't even begin to say how many have died in this disaster. There are possibly two to three-hundred thousand buried under the debris and rubble still. Also in the article from Yahoo news, they exclaim that the final casualty estimates, which the European Commission said also include some 250,000 injured, will clearly place the Haiti earthquake among the deadliest natural catastrophes of recent times.

It is alleged that a "Hope for Haiti Now" telethon raised 57 million dollars for the cause, with pledges still coming in. A video blog I found on a website shows the after math of Haiti along with the entertainers from the "Hope for Haiti Now" telethon performance.

More than 10-thousand Americans have been re-entered into the country, said Megan Mattson, a spokeswoman for the State Department. An estimated 45,000 American citizens were said to have been in Haiti while only 15,000 are accounted for as of now. The ones that were brought back into America were welcomed at an army base outside of Florida. They were given snacks and the chance to make phone calls to their families. Some Haitians were arrested while at the airport for using fake papers, the Associated Press reported Friday. Other than this incident nothing else has been a big problem in this process of returning Americans home.

The Haitian government issued the over 600,000 homeless crowded in open areas to try and find homes and shelter with relatives or others along the countryside. ABC's video shows the great medical need in Haiti. They said many residents were looking for care but there were no doctors, medicines or much aid to be found. Over 300 medical teams from the U.S. are going to be setting up spots for care. They also talk about a public health threat, having to do with the lack of clean food and water. As Haitian's are taking anything they can get, they may be suffering from a disease in the future from these unclean liquids. I really think that what America and other countries are doing to help Haiti is huge. All the people over there that have lost loved ones, homes, food, water and even the stress they undergo, really deserve to get some sort of support. America may be going through a low economy problem right now but we are still one of the most wealthy and fortunate countries. I look on the crisis as the old saying "do onto others as you would want them to do for you." We have no idea if America will ever face more devastation such as 9-11 or mass earthquakes and such. It never hurts to help out others, and hope that if something were to ever go wrong for us they would do the same. Sometimes its even the small things we can do such as teh telethon I had talked about above. Raising over 57 million dollars for just one night of performers and donations coming in is unbelievable to me. To think that such a small amaoung ot our time and money can help to combine and raise that much for others suffering is a great thing to hear and see. Any doctors or nurses that can volunteer their time to help the wounded and ill over there is also another small but gracious thing we can do for Haiti. To me the feeling you get for helping and maybe even saving someone who is ill's life is a feeling unlike any other.

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