How to Help Haiti

Recently have you heard about the monstrous earthquake in Haiti and its heart-breaking consequences? This earthquake, one of the most terrible ever left behind: 200.000 people dead, 250.000 injured, 1.5 millions homeless. It destroyed everything on its way: hospitals, churches, schools, streets, companies, and prisons. It took away Haitian people’s happy lives, even the smallest things for them to survive. Before the earthquake, they had had families, money, and business, but after the earthquake everything ended in smoke; they lost all. Can they maintain their lives on the collapse? The Haitian people, indeed, need our supports. But what we should have now is an effective specific plan to help them through.

Firstly, it is essential to provide the survivors with food, water, medicine, and shelters. These are the vital things that bring them energy to continue their lives, to fight against the biggest enemies of human beings such as: hunger, epidemic diseases, and homelessness. To carry out this thing, we need the cooperation of many countries all over the world to create the strength of international solidarity in solving the contemporary difficulties that Haiti is coping with. Depending on ability of each country, we can donate more or less. For example, the rich countries may be responsible for delivering free medicine, medical equipment, and materials for setting up camps. With the developing countries, we can aid the Haitian people in overcoming hunger by supplying them with food. Besides, we need attract volunteers who are very necessary for transporting relief, building tents, solving sanitation problems, and doing medical relief in Haiti. The more volunteers there are, the more help they can get. Furthermore, we also pay attention to organize relief systematically so that the Haitian people are able to get the most timely and valuable one.

The next thing is to clear the collapse and rebuild the infrastructure in Haiti. As we know, after the devastating earthquake, rubble, blocks of collapsed buildings with dozens of the dead bodies are everywhere. Collecting and burying the dead bodies contribute to solving the environmental problems as well as prevent the spread of the epidemic diseases such as cholera. In addition, clearing rubble on the streets creates better conditions for relief transportation, getting help much more easily. To do it, we need a large number of people of military forces not only in Haiti but also from other countries. We can help Haiti now, but we can’t help it forever, so we should help the Haitian people reconstruct infrastructure as the basic foundation for them to recover and develop their country by themselves in the future. According to a report, to rebuild, Haiti needs about 11.5 billions US dollars. It’s an enormous amount of money; therfore, raising funds and appealing donors to deal with financial problems are very important for Haiti. The attempt of the Haitian people and the help from other countries will create the internal motivation and external motivation to accelerate process of reconstructing Haiti.

The earthquake broke the order and security of society in Haiti, and our duty is to associate with Haitian government and organizations such as the international Red Cross, Interpol to restructure it. The fact that there are many criminals who take advantages of disorder to escape from the prisons, many bad people pretend fostering children to buy and sell children illegally. We have to have methods, policies to interfere and prevent the spread of social evils. This thing aims to build up the Haitian people’s belief in the Haitian government in keeping safe for them and their future.

In general, if we know how to help Haiti, we can quickly solve the complicated problems that Haiti is confronting and get the expected results. I do believe that hopes will blossom in Haiti. We will see smiles on the Haitian people’s faces instead of sadness and drops of tear. Small donation will bring big changes, and our supports will be a miracle to contribute to transformation of Haiti.