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The past few days have been very tough for the small island of Haiti where a natural tragedy struck and threatened to wipe out an entire population. It’s nearly a week on and hope is yet to be real to thousands of Haitians, except that the world is gearing its attention towards the American nation, already plagued with poverty and leadership quagmires.
From the United States of America to Europe and other part of the world, the pitiable voices of Haitians are been heard loud and clear. In response, many foreigner aid workers are trooping in to assist weak people and reduce the humanitarian situation, in its worst state.
As reported by the Associated Press this morning, a U.N. humanitarian spokeswoman declared the quake in Haiti as the worst disaster the international organization has ever faced.
“It’s worse than the cataclysmic Asian tsunami of 2004, everything is damaged," Elisabeth Byrs in Geneva.
Dead body are littered everywhere, many are dying beneath the rubbles and some others are completely unreachable. The air is tense and human epidemic is almost inevitable.
Early this morning, a rescue team pulled out a dehydrated woman from the ruins of a luxury hotel in the Haitian capital. In the words of her husband, Reinhard Riedl, who was happy to hear that his wife was still alive even in the wreckage: “it is a little miracle”.
Nobody knows how many died in Tuesday's quake. Haiti's government alone has already recovered 20,000 bodies — not counting those recovered by independent agencies or relatives themselves, Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive told The Associated Press.
Filled with desperation for food and water, a lot of Haitians were reported fighting for the few available aids yesterday. Looting and lawlessness were equally reported as devastated people struggled to keep themselves alive, while waiting for the world to come to their rescue.
With about 100,000 people feared to be perished in one small country, the United Nation and other aid groups can only be on their hill to save several other thousands in desperation.
U.N. Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon is expected to arrive in Haiti later today to discuss aid delivery to the impoverished nation.
“The Haitian government has established 14 distribution points for food and other supplies, and U.S. Army helicopters scouted locations for more. Aid groups opened five emergency health centres. Vital gear, such as water-purification units, was arriving from abroad,” The Associated Press.
Some families in Italy have already volunteered to adopt from the thousands of children who have been orphaned by the earth quake.
The West African country of Senegal has equally promised to give out land and other assistance to Haiti citizens who are willing to return to Senegal.
Haiti, being a country founded from the slaves taken from Africa, a good number of them from the present Senegal, as the government believes, they are inviting some of them to ‘come home’ in this period of crises.
With this magnitude of nature’s anger, any country could have been devastated, and in the poor country of Haiti, with its already battered political and economic problems, the worst can only be imagined.
As the ordinary people of Haiti measure their hope with despair, everyone is called upon to identify with the human tragedy.
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