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Amanpour viewers continued to express sympathy and concern over the tragedy and loss the country of Haiti continues to endure after the earthquake. The most discussed topic was the fact, according to a UNICEF director, that 50% of children in Haiti attend school, while the remainder of children does not receive formal education at all. Most viewers were appalled and felt this was “completely unacceptable.” The majority of the audience primarily blamed the government of Haiti and thought a calamity like this earthquake “had to happen” in order to uncover such “daily tragedy.” Most agreed these “uneducated” children were the new generation to a continued downward spiral and “vicious cycle” of poverty and expressed strong disappointment.
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Haiti’s 50% of children don’t go to school according to a UNICEF director
Sineade Watson Wow...Why does it seem that we do not hear about the trouble that goes on in that country unless there is some kind of natural disaster?? Or is it just me?
Tebogo Motshegoa Most of them might have given up because of the country's political instability, poverty, general lack of role models and morale
Oralia Romero Sadly, I am not surpried. With Haiti being the poorest country in the hemisphere, they can barely survive and an education is unaffordable! 🙁
Glenn Michael Salve If that is the case, Haiti would remain poor in many years to come. Education is the only instrument that can empower a nation, without it or lack of it would make them very vulnerable to the atrocious jaws of poverty and exploitation of the local and foreign elites.
Felix Neil Maritim Death is a must 4 us all eather in an earthquake, Bullet or a disease. We are just passers by in this world.
Gaidi Eo Patel Something should be done Now! otherwise the cycle of poverty will continue in Haiti forever.
William Adevu I can't believe only 50% of children in Haiti go to school. What is the gov doing? Ghana got to know this and even though as one of the poorest nation in Sub Sahara made it possible to introduce free education system to every child here in Ghana. Why can't black leaders learn lessons rather than living in so called Presidential Palaces enjoying themselves with only their families. Just look at where the president is living
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The Earthquake in Haiti
Haiti is a land where a lot of sorrow and poverty rules. That is a very big problem in our today´s society. For such a country it is very hard when there is a catastrophe, because the people have nearly nothing. Now they lose all what they have, the house or the little hut and the family, which give a lot of support. The only thing they have now is God and their believe. Yesterday I saw an article on TV where an old woman said: “I lose all what I have, but I say thank you to God because he is the reason why I live now.”. It was very sad to see all the people on the street without anything. If they get food or some other things to survive they have to fight because there is a lot of fear.
All in all I would say that many countries give aid to this country and the people and I will hope that this catastrophe ends soon.
I wanted to express how appreciative I am for Ms. Amanpour's real, direct, and thorough style of interviewing. So far, she has had the most relevant guests on her show speak not only on Haiti's present and past, but most importantly it's future. My hat off to you Ms. Amanpour, and thanks again.
Everyone seems to be ignoring one of the main reasons for the disaster or Haiti, probably THE reason and that is the birth rate, population and the influence of the Catholic Church.
Haiti can not begin to prosper and get itself out of their horror of poverty, environmental destruction, crime and hopelessness unless they can dramatically reduce their population over the next two or three generations.
Haiti's environment has been destroyed. It will take massive aid, reforestation and a smaller population to bring it back. They are a lesson for the rest of the world that vast population increases severely reduces any country's chances of future prosperity.
They also must have fewer citizens to be able to have the quality of construction that will result in minimum damage and casualties from hurricanes and earthquakes and, tragically, this will not happen because human beings have not evolved enough to have the awareness and the common sense to do what must be done for a better future.
get their population down
I am insulted with former presidents Clinton & Bush begging US citizens for money to help Haiti! Our government has been "supporting" this government at our expense to the tune of over $3 BILLION dollars. Where did this money go??? Nobody knows!!! The Haiti "officials" must first empty their Swiss bank accounts, then maybe we can help. The US taxpayers are broke!!! We cannot afford anymore of this!!!
To rebuild Haiti the industrialized world should start with forgiving Haiti's massive paralyzing debt, and the US should take the lead as the first country to forgive that debt!
Re: Relief efforts in Haiti
It seems to me a waste of manpower and resources if the search and rescue teams find survivors under the rubble and dig them out only to have them die waiting for surgery. The coordinators at the airport need to let the Doctors Without Borders and other groups bring in the hospital equipment they need to conduct surgery on these survivors.
Gwen S.
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The rescue program should put 50 soldiers in an area to secure it, then use a Chinook helicopter to drop several large unloaded pallets that come directly off C-130's into the area, then allow the troops to unload it and keep the area secured so the food and water does not get stolen by the guys with machetes. Put another 50 troops in another area, drop another few large pallets, and so on. Assuming an hour per area, you could do 10 to 12 areas per day with one Chinook if you had the pallets staged and put the troops in with smaller helicopters. No wasted time – pallets right off C-130's and right out into Haiti. What they are doing now is complete incompetence.
I believe it was a Mr Gates of the Obama Administration who made the decision not to use helicopters to parachute food, water and basic medical supplies into Haiti incase the people riot. This was a profound mistake. People riot when they are hungry, thirsty and devastated. By contrast, the Haitians were forming dignified queues for water by the 4th day. Only now, and because they're starving, are a few beginning to riot, and for what? Food.
If other countries could have been used to helicopter these supplies all over Haiti, then Port au Prince airport could have been freed up for medical and rescue supplies and more longer term survival kits.
Yes, it would have been a vast task and that is clear, but if countries can be carpet-bombed in a well-coordinated and systematic way, why couldn't the principles of combat be employed for use in the survival of so many people instead of what is turning out to be assisting in their destruction?
Catastrophic events attracts our attention more than any single isolated tragedy. A Plain crash can be in the news for days. Daily car accidents will never get such a coverage despite the higher number of casualties that produce over a year time. It is in our nature to be like this. Therefore there is no reason at all to be surprised if Haiti's daily problems are getting in the international spotlight only after its tremendous hearthquacke. The only thing we can do is to use this sudden and huge spotligh to develope awareness of the Haitian's problems in the western society.
Christian Amanpour is doing a really good job here: in fact she is presenting us Haiti from every possible angle with a clear, effective and direct style. There is always the right person sitting in front of her, and she is able to get from them the most of the information.
I am becoming a great fan of Cristiane Amanpour and I believe that her way of re-inventing journalism will enlarge the number of people who are actually interested in a better understanding of daily news.
This will lead to a wider awareness in society: and if one day there will be no need of such an earthquacke to reveal severe international situations this is also because of Christiane Amanpour, the Cnn and all the great journalist that risk their life to be there and cover the story in an honest, deeply detailed and complete way.
Thank you very much to Christiane Amanpour and to her team for all their great work.
Nicola Lecca
Italian Writer
Hi, I’m Jule and I want to speak about my personal opinion to the incidents after earthquake in Haiti.
I heard in the news about the States who sent their help to the people right after they heard about what happened there. I have to say that it’s unbelievable that so many countries gave their aid to the people who have nothing left except their live. They do everything to save people trapped in the ruins of their houses and they work day and night to care about the wounded. Their deeds are honorable, but still it’s not enough. People fight with each other to get at least a little bit of food and water and many others die because of diseases. In my opinion all sates of the world have to give their hand to Haiti, otherwise it could last months or even years before the conditions return to normal. Of course I could help, too. But I never will donate money, because on the way to the ones who really need it the majority disappears in the pockets of corrupt persons. For me, it is more effective to send goods to Haiti, because it’s that what the people really need in their situation. For me the most important thing at the moment is to help the people to survive. Only if the situation is relatively constant we can think about things like education.
Can someone explain to me why the aircraftcarrier that went to Haiti didn't bring any heavy equipment like shovels to remove the heavy ruins so that more people could have been saved in the first days?
Heavy transporthelicopters are able to to fly these machines into the area in no-time. They could have been "on the job" right away!
I just don't get it.
Rick Rienstra, Amsterdam, The netherlands.
Did anyone learned from the millions sent to Ethiopia?
Sit down and wait until we feed you does not work. Tell kind Americans the truth. If they want to help they should help directly . The charity organizatons and famous people did not show us it is working in Ethiiopia why should we believe them now.All it does is show poor people sitting down waiting for the world to come and help them. The fact is they are not getting the money.They are used to collect money. Enough with showing desperate people to ask kind Americans to send more money.
Hello, I am a pupil from Germany and in one of our last lessons we spoke about the earthquake in Haiti. I am shocked about the situation there, because I heard, that medical care is very bad and that many people are under rubbles until now. On the other site I have respect for those volunteers who try there best to help people who are in need.
But many other countries also try to help Haiti during this terrible situation. Of course the "way" to Haiti is not easy because of the consequences of the earthquake. But it is important that all countries give aid to Haiti. If they work together hand in hand they can cause something. The first target must be to give the people in Haiti enough food and medical care to survive. Germany must also help to regulate the situation in Haiti, because people of our country died, too. We must also take part and should send help and relief teams to Haiti.
I expect the question to be ignored. But I'm happy to provide food for thought for Ms Amanpour and her senior team.
Would they have cued a commercial break if they were doing a live interview with President Sarkozy while he stood in front of a earthquake destroyed Paris?
In all my years of watching and admiring Ms Amanpour I never thought she would treat a Prime Minister and President which such disrespect and disdain?
Would CNN take a commercial break during a live exclusive interview with PM Brown or ok, let's really push it, with say the foreign Minister of Poland?
I am also pupil of a german school. We spoke about all the things that happend over there in Haiti. Its unbeliveable. In such moments, one can ask where good is while such things happen.
When I first heard about the news, I don´t know how to react. But after a while there were more and more storys about the catastrophe. Then the number of people who died increased. But it is impressiv how much countrys send help. It reminds me of the Tsunamie some years ago. So much poor people who lost their lives and get homeless. In just a few minutes a paradiese can get hell. Because people have no food and no drinks, they start to despoil. They fight for their lives.
But through all this desaster there are some good news, too. A few people could be rescued after so a long time in this rubble.
Now solutions must be found to help all these poor and homeless to get them a relative normal live again.