Four cases of Diptheria have been reported in the Haitian camps. Warnings on outbreaks of thyphoid have been issued.
At least one foreign advisor to an NGO was kidnapped then ransomed, The Haitian driver was shot.
There are 217 executive job postings on Relief Web for NGOs in Haiti
Situation report from Relief Web
Period covered by this Ops Update: 7 May - 13 May 2010
Appeal target (current): 218.4 million Swiss francs (203,478,000 US dollars or 148,989,000 euro) in cash, kind, or services is solicited to support the Haitian Red Cross Society (HRCS)/Federation to provide basic non-food items and emergency/transitional shelter to 80,000 beneficiary families and provide emergency health care, fulfilment of basic needs in water and sanitation and livelihoods support for vulnerable populations in the earthquake-affected region. Of the 218.4 million Swiss francs sought, the International Federation solicits Swiss francs 2.07 million to support its inter-agency coordination of the Shelter and Non-Food Items Cluster.
The donor response report shows current coverage of 67% of the overall Appeal target.
The budget for inter-agency coordination of the Shelter and Non-Food Items Cluster currently stands at 77%
Summary:
Sources within the Red Cross Red Crescent are indicating that some institutions have begun charging patients in hospitals although it was understood that the Government of Haiti would wait until July to reinstate mandatory charges for medical services. The reinstatement of a user pay system places pressure on the affected population which, as reported in an article of 11 May released by the Associated Press, has benefitted from improved access to health care over the past three months. This will also place increased pressure on the International Organizations which are not charging for services, but consequently are inundated with persons seeking assistance. The BeNeLux, French, and Finnish Emergency Response Units (ERU)s have handed over their duties to the HRCS/IFRC relief team and the Colombian and Mexican Red Cross emergency relief teams have completed their food distributions. The longer term Federation (IFRC) relief team will integrate new relief delegates with national staff and volunteers who have been associated with the operation since January, and in partnership with the HRCS, will continue to provide these teams with learning opportunities and on the job experience contributing to the national capacity to respond quickly to the needs of the affected population.
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And we see here that most aid agencies have spent less than 25% of what they collected
Following the Aid Money to Haiti - CBS Evening News - CBS News
and is one big issue underlying all this "aid"money that is being collected
Haiti Wants Food Aid to Stop? - CBS Evening News - CBS News
which is that is completely undermining all local agricultural trade and commerce...... creating dependency... undermining the existing health care system which is not free.. so that government hospitals and doctors are not being paid, cannot support themselves...
Note that most of the NGOs who collected the money have little or no CAPACITY on the ground to spend it EXCEPT to give out freebies... they have no staff... no programs, no projects. The Clinton Foundation was just opening their office......
And note again that there are really very very FEW programs that NGOs provide that actually lift people out of povery. Most of them just keep the people in poverty so that the NGOs can survive.
Perhaps it would have been better to just fly over Haiti with the money.. an estimated 37k per Haitian... and drop the cash in greenbacks over the countryside............
Then they could perhaps have come to the DR and bought some seeds instead of accepting the 3 million in genetically altered sterile seeds that Monsanto has so generously supplied to one NGO.
At least one foreign advisor to an NGO was kidnapped then ransomed, The Haitian driver was shot.
There are 217 executive job postings on Relief Web for NGOs in Haiti
Situation report from Relief Web
Period covered by this Ops Update: 7 May - 13 May 2010
Appeal target (current): 218.4 million Swiss francs (203,478,000 US dollars or 148,989,000 euro) in cash, kind, or services is solicited to support the Haitian Red Cross Society (HRCS)/Federation to provide basic non-food items and emergency/transitional shelter to 80,000 beneficiary families and provide emergency health care, fulfilment of basic needs in water and sanitation and livelihoods support for vulnerable populations in the earthquake-affected region. Of the 218.4 million Swiss francs sought, the International Federation solicits Swiss francs 2.07 million to support its inter-agency coordination of the Shelter and Non-Food Items Cluster.
The donor response report shows current coverage of 67% of the overall Appeal target.
The budget for inter-agency coordination of the Shelter and Non-Food Items Cluster currently stands at 77%
Summary:
Sources within the Red Cross Red Crescent are indicating that some institutions have begun charging patients in hospitals although it was understood that the Government of Haiti would wait until July to reinstate mandatory charges for medical services. The reinstatement of a user pay system places pressure on the affected population which, as reported in an article of 11 May released by the Associated Press, has benefitted from improved access to health care over the past three months. This will also place increased pressure on the International Organizations which are not charging for services, but consequently are inundated with persons seeking assistance. The BeNeLux, French, and Finnish Emergency Response Units (ERU)s have handed over their duties to the HRCS/IFRC relief team and the Colombian and Mexican Red Cross emergency relief teams have completed their food distributions. The longer term Federation (IFRC) relief team will integrate new relief delegates with national staff and volunteers who have been associated with the operation since January, and in partnership with the HRCS, will continue to provide these teams with learning opportunities and on the job experience contributing to the national capacity to respond quickly to the needs of the affected population.
"
And we see here that most aid agencies have spent less than 25% of what they collected
Following the Aid Money to Haiti - CBS Evening News - CBS News
and is one big issue underlying all this "aid"money that is being collected
Haiti Wants Food Aid to Stop? - CBS Evening News - CBS News
which is that is completely undermining all local agricultural trade and commerce...... creating dependency... undermining the existing health care system which is not free.. so that government hospitals and doctors are not being paid, cannot support themselves...
Note that most of the NGOs who collected the money have little or no CAPACITY on the ground to spend it EXCEPT to give out freebies... they have no staff... no programs, no projects. The Clinton Foundation was just opening their office......
And note again that there are really very very FEW programs that NGOs provide that actually lift people out of povery. Most of them just keep the people in poverty so that the NGOs can survive.
Perhaps it would have been better to just fly over Haiti with the money.. an estimated 37k per Haitian... and drop the cash in greenbacks over the countryside............
Then they could perhaps have come to the DR and bought some seeds instead of accepting the 3 million in genetically altered sterile seeds that Monsanto has so generously supplied to one NGO.