Before Deadly Earthquake Hit Haiti, A Deadlier Water Crisis Remained

The Huffington Post reported today that before the earthquake in Haiti hit, Haiti already had been plagued by a much greater crisis.  With approximately 10 Million citizens, Haiti reports that in recent years half of all the deaths of its citizens are related to the lack of clean water.   If something is not done to address this crisis, then 5 Million of the current 10 million citizens will stand to die due to this crisis.  This estimated death toll would clearly exceeds the current death toll in Haiti that stems from the recent earthquake.  Haiti is not the only nation struck by a water crisis; reports show that 1 billion people in the world do not have access to clean water.  More has to be done, more can be done!

Providing clean water to those in need are just some of the projects that Handing Out Hope has on it’s radar.  If you’d like to help us fund such projects, click here.

Does Relief Aid from U.S. to Haiti Get Into the Right Hands?

Wednesday, 01/27/10

Close to $2 million flowing into Haiti in relief aid from around the world and $379 million of that comes from the United States and most of that is not going directly into the hands of the Haitian goverment. Condidering the government corruption the country suffers from this is actually a good thing. The president himself, Rene Preval, made sure in a press conference last Wednesday, to annunce that most of this money is going directly to NGOs. “Just under one penny of each dollar is going straight to the shattered Haitian government, whose president is sleeping in a tent while struggling to organize an administration that was notoriously unstable even before the earthquake….” reports the Associated Press. With a reputation for being listed as one the world’s most corrupt countries, Americans would like to be assured that their donations are being handled and used in the best way possible to help victims of the Haiti earthquake, reports AP, in the Jan. 27th article, “Haiti govt gets 1 penny of US quake aid dollar.”

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(Editing by G. Guereque)