Haiti - The Broken Wing

http://www.medialens.org/index.php/alerts/alert-archive/2010/37-haiti-the-broken-wing.html
Date Written:  2010-02-03
Publisher:  Medialens
Year Published:  2010
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX11704

The courage and compassion of thousands of people willing to enter a chaotic disaster zone threatened with aftershocks are very real. Compassion arises out of a recognition that 'their' suffering is no different to 'my' suffering. Joining compassion with reason means asking why over 80 per cent of Haiti's population of 10 million people live in abject poverty. Why less than 45 per cent of all Haitians have access to potable water. Why the life expectancy rate in Haiti is only 53 years. Why seventy-six per cent of Haiti's children under the age of five are underweight, or suffer from stunted growth, with 63 per cent of Haitians undernourished.

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