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Christiane reports from Haiti:
January 22nd, 2010
04:15 PM ET
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Christiane is in Haiti, where she's reporting on relief and rebuilding. She anchors AMANPOUR. live from Haiti every day on CNN at 2100 CET. Here are her updates from the ground:
- January 26: Huge tragedy for Haiti children: the quake crumbled half nation's schools and three main universities destroyed or damaged. Spoke to three girls age 11 and 13. They’re still afraid and traumatized from seeing so much death and destroyed buildings. They’re desperate to get back to school and see friends and teachers. But the Education Minister tells me the government is still trying to figure out how to get classes reconvened in tents or wherever... they think the very earliest would be sometime in March.
- January 25: What Haiti needs now – a Future
- January 25: I’m in a Gap garment factory in Haiti right now. Workers back at work making t-shirts for US. Vital. Main thing right now is creating jobs. For long term, garment industry could be engine of Haiti’s economic recovery. Companies giving workers food. Main worry from factories: if they can't get up and running quickly, buyers in the US will go elsewhere. The President of the Associaton of Haitian Manufacturers tells me $25m in soft loans now will revive the whole Haitian garment industry. 28,000 workers and massive trickle down effect.
- January 24: Drove over mountains in Haiti to Jacmel on the Caribbean coast; Canadians to the rescue there. En route saw sides sheared off mountains leaving great white gashes. And saw busses stuffed with people getting out of the capital to countryside.
- January 23: A 24 year old man pulled from rubble today – 11 days later. Incredible.
- January 23: There are tent cities springing up here in Haiti: the government and aid workers are trying to relocate 400,000 people out of these tent cities and out of the city
- January 22: I see people lined up at the passport office here in downtown Port-au-Prince – trying to renew passports and trying to get out of Haiti.
- January 22: Landed in Haiti. Airport looks more under control. Saw lots of people in line, outside of the airport, trying to leave Haiti.
- January 21: In Santo Domingo. On my way to Haiti.
- January 21: In New Jersey headed to Santo Domingo
- January 20: I'm going to Haiti to investigate how the country can RISE LIKE A PHOENIX from these ashes into something even better. This devastating horrible tragedy just might also be a rare chance to do right by Haiti, and rebuild, as Europe and Japan rebuilt their shattered nations after World War II
On Friday I'm going to Haiti to investigate how the country can RISE LIKE A PHOENIX from these ashes into something even better. This devastating horrible tragedy just might also be a rare chance to do right by Haiti, and rebuild, as Europe and Japan rebuilt their shattered nations after World War II
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I am proud of you Christiane Amanpour. Perhaps with the clout of your position in the News Media and your honest forthright intelligence you can get things going in a way that helps all those who cant get on a plane and leave. I wouldnt blame anyone who is doing that but I also know that all those people who dont have the money and who have no option but to remain and do the best they can need a champion. Good luck and may you and others like you make a difference especially for all those children who have lost family and parents.
I look forward to reading your reports as you make your way around what is left of this devastated country.
Rebuilding Haiti needs to be planned and executed properly. The worst we can do is "give" the government money to do this! Construction projects should be contracted to US and European companies to design and manage using local Haitian labor. Hire as many local people as possible at $10/day (5 times the average income)! This would stimulate the economy quicker than giving the Haitian government money to waste, steal and misuse. The government is inept and corrupt.
Ms.Amanpour:
I want to thank you and all other entities in all your capacities for your involvement in helping my country. However I am greatly converned about the present clamor for adoption of the orphans. I pray to God that all those advocating that these children be thrown into this country and others throughout the world for adoption: consider and remember that not all homes are safe and suitable. Haitian orphans are precious as are all other children. Abuse of any kind is detrimental any any age and lasts a lifetime.
Good Luck to you, Christiane. Please have a keen look to the harbour of Port-Au-Prince. It is absolute essential, that the quays, the warehouses, the cranes and containerbridges are reconstructed soonest for incoming vessels with food, building materials and petrol. To reconstruct the harbour is plenty of hard work. With the shovel in their hands especially the young male haitians should remove the debris and rubble in the harbour and from the streets and unload the cargoships and containers. Their is a lot to do, and they should be paid fairly: Cash for work is much better than looting. The rubble should be recycled for bricks and concrete to rebuilding new houses. And the sanitary system and electric supplies should be installed with state of the art sustainable energies. And hope will rise.
I hope the Haiti after the earthquake will be a better one than before.
Good to see you Christiane out of the studio and, for the first time, taking the show into your native habitat, live on the ground and in the field, to cover this very important story. We are especially interested in your perspective of providing not just short term relief, although that is of course vital at this critical time, but also to provide Haiti with long term development that they are so obviously in desperate need of. We are of course supportive of the United States making substantial contributions but also being an effective partner with other countries and the UN in order to provide nation building over the long term. We are looking to the international community to not only to restore the Haitian people to their situation before the earthquake disaster, but to actually make a substantial improvement in the typical Haitian life as a permanent way out of the daily poverty they new before and as a way to prevent these kinds of disasters in the future. We are looking for answers from the UN, the International Monetary Fund, Special Envoy Bill Clinton, and the State Department in ways to rebuild Haiti better than before. We are looking for the long term improvements in infrastructure, health care, education, agriculture, and of course, the economy. Again, excellent to see you on the ground providing first hand reporting from the best and most experienced journalist in the field today.
Finally, CNN sends a journalist. Too many infotainment, negative, sensationalist, cant see the forest for the trees, celebrtiy personality "reporters" in Haiti. 2 of them keep complaing about "stupid", preventable deaths, and have an utter lack of appreciation for the scale of this apocalyotic disaster. Speaking of "stupid" deaths, how many have occurred due to the flood of internatinal media adding to the logstical logjam?
I say get all the "stupid" "reporters" out of there and keep peole like Amanpour in there. It's humanitaran war.
Good on you, Christiane, for stellar reporting and bringing some semblance of order to our understanding of this tragedy. I suggest that it will require an iron fist approach to get the planning and designing of the new Haiti right. ........ and that iron first may well have to come from Uncle Sam. If we play nice and start spreading around the money a la Baghdad again, it well be one more disaster to go with the original. A task force of talented people from around the globe needs to be at work now, if not sooner, and the security team will most likely look a whole lot like the 101st Airborne.
"This devastating horrible tragedy just might also be a rare chance to do right by Haiti, and rebuild, as Europe and Japan rebuilt their shattered nations after World War II "
I hope so. this is the only way we all could recover from seeing those pictures. Lets not forget them. The world need to remember Haiti.
take care .
Hi christiane this devastating earthqauke in haiti saddens my heart
a lot .Everybody must share their benevolence or in prayers.
Christiane – It seems to me that an important historical fact could provide a further rational for America's longer term commitment to Haiti's development. In 1802, Haiti defeated France at a time when this Island provided a significant contribution to France's GNP. Napoleon Bonaparte concluded that he could no longer afford to maintain France's presence in North America, and contacted Thomas Jefferson to negotiate the sale of the Louisiana Purchase. (Napoleon also wanted to provide a counter-balance to England's Maritime power.) Thus, parts or all of 14 US states (about one third of our continental territory) became part of our country directly as a result of Haiti's defeat of France. Time to thank Haiti? Steve in Cambridge, MA.
Maddam Amanpour,
Mrs. Amanpour,
I really enjoyed your show today- Live from Haiti- You do such wonderful work in your field- I know many feel this way about you but never write in- your great, and god bless you- you are an incredible asset to CNN and the Television industry in general- you deserve the CNN hero of the year award!- thanks for all your work across the world- all the places that many of us would fear to go to- you make it look so easy, but I know its an incredible amount of work that goes into just a few minutes of a show- especially a live shot on location, and where you are right now in port Au-Prince Haiti- God Bless you an d may he watch over you and your entire crew. hurry home when you can.
From the Chilly and Damp Pacific Northwest- I say Thank You!- I can't Imagine what it must be like there, its 42*F and raining here and where you are in Port-Au-Prince it's 95*F and HUMID and the smell must just be awful with the situation down there, again, god bless you and god bless each and everyone down there working to make it somewhat livable for the survivors and the loss of their entire families, – I know its incredible different watching on TV compared to seeing it first hand.
YOU ARE THE GREATEST JOURNALIST ON ALL MEDIA- THE TRUE QUEEN OF MEDIA – AND HUMANITY.
Jonathan Cooper
Seattle- Washington USA
seattleimage@comcast.net
BRAIN DRAIN, and HOW!!!
LAMENTATIONS, taht's not what Haiti needs from M. Jean in Ottawa. WOULDN'T IT BE TIME FOR THE MINISTER TO GO BACK AND WORK FOR HER OWN, AS A MINISTER THERE, not here!
She came, she got educated, now, what for? Many probably had never heard of her in Canada, before the disaster.
In her own country, she would do a lot more good, with her brain and her power developed at the level of the West.
Now is time to give back to Haiti what the world took from it: NOT MONEY, BUT THE POWER TO EARN IT THEMSELVES, with THEIR OWN BRAINS. Too many countries are guilty of the crime that we are, ourselves, complaining about, IN THE NAME OF BIGGER BUCKS.
Don't do to others, the saying goes, what you can't take from others, or something like it!!!
hi Christiane , your input to the program which you and you team are doing is fantastic,have been watching your reporting on the earthquake in Haiti, was interesting with the interview with head imf,about the rebuilding program,with little or no infrastructure left or of little use ,the general plan for the future,why dont they have 2 way plan to have grants for international companys to start building new urbanizationes y building companies ,as haiti has lots of raw materials to produce concrete and man power costing little giving people with comunities to come to gether and set up this bulding program ,with this everything come to gether, shops schools and all the small business, and will with this work program ,if 1000 building companys started with this program in different areas can build 70,000 homes per year per company ,also educating the people with future skils it will be selfsufficient.this country now has a fantastic oppertunity to bring it self forward and be a show place for south america,shows as well the security is controlable,You are donig a great job , ths world needs people like you ,
Mrs. Amanpour,
It's amazing how so many people and organizations have thrown in their support and relief efforts. And it is journalists like yourself who keep the news cycle on the hot spots with pointed interviews and reports.
I was watching your interview with the US ambassador in Haiti, in which you argued seismologists suspect the zone has not released its full tensions yet ..., and the ambassador did not have a clue ...
As it is known Port-au-Prince is located on a fault line,
is there anybody thinking about moving the capital of this country to an earthquake-free zone ? As the city needs to be rebuilt anyway, they might as well build the capital with sound infrastructure and in a seismic-free, or much less risky zone. No ?
Brazil, Nigeria, Myanmar all rebuild there capitals from scratch (not even for risks of a disaster, and not always in the most morally or democratically conditions, I agree ).
The rebuilding of the capital in another location should not even make Port-au-Prince "obsolete". Keep it as its port city/business-commercial centre, just like Spain (Madrid-Barcelona) or Italy (Roma-Milano), Brazil (Brasilia-Rio/SaoPaolo), China (Beijing-Shanghai).
It can generate a 2-pronged redevelopment plan that allows to spread many pressures (much needed infrastructure, demography, economic development, social pressures) over 2 locations in Haiti.
Lots of support and best wishes to you and your team,
Tom S
Ms. Ananpour, I couldn't be more grateful having you report from the Haiti disaster. Like so many have already indicated in their comments, you do your job like none other. It's why you're delegated to CNN Intl. instead of being on once a week on CNN. I think it's their mistake. This aside, we'll hear what's going on, and you'll get the best interviews from the man on the street to the president and prime minister. I'm sure your son misses you, give him a ring when you can. This brit expat couldn't be more proud of the bravada reporter you are. Take care. Travel safe.
hi christiane,
Thanks for ALL YOUR HARD WORK.YOU ARE LIKE MANY SAID THE BEST.AND I LOVE THE HAIR STYLE..LOL...KEEP UP THE GOOD JOB AND MAY GOD BLESS AND PROTECT YOU AND YOUR FAMILY.
dear Ms Amanpour,
I very sincerely admire your style of journalism. please keep it up.
Why not consider coming over to Nigeria for a detailed study
of sectarian crisis, there causes and effects.who knows ,it could set
the stage for a more permanent resolution of this menace,particularly
after the recent mayhen at Jos in northern Nigeria.
Dear Ms Amanpour,
During all the TV reports from Haiti, I have been waiting for that wonderful moment when one can see live pictures of well organised food queues with troops keeping the security for the safety of all, and the lovely people of Haiti being served by the world's rescue services. Many contributed well to the build up of a substantial fund amount which one would have thought was sufficient for the first supply of food stocks and the safe delivery of it to where it is needed right now. This I was expecting to see days ago but even now we have not seen enough of this vital aspect of the relieve programme. Of course it is not all about money and we have seen some amazing reports of the search and rescue efforts but along with that where are the shots of the food lines. One organisation were throwing boxes of food pack into the crowd and that really was causing havoc.
i really agree with Tom about of the move of the capital from a free zone risk. Definitely barcelone , shangai, or new york itself are cities of commercial buisiness. I´m leavng in spain and i can tell that many region have their capital locate in small and cute city.
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