Education of Peer Education
08/16/2015
How things might would have been different if more of the donor aid money had actually been paid and invested in Haiti’s infrastructure—perhaps even employing Haitian businesses to do the work? Where would you have liked to see that money invested within Haiti: education, medical facilities, roads, encouraging Haitian-owned businesses, or international businesses that pay a living wage? On January 2010 Port-au-Prince was leveled by an earthquake, which claimed as many as 316,000 lives and destroyed many houses, hotels and hospitals. Days after the tragedy, good will flowed: private American citizens donated $1.4 billion, and the world spent $5.2 billion on relief efforts. In addition, tens of thousands of military personnel and volunteers arrived from around the globe to help in the recovery, however, those moneys and help arrived in the wrong hands nothing was done to help the people recover from this crisis. However, if more of the donor aid money had actually been paid and invested in Haiti’s infrastructure or if the government would have employed Haitians business to do the work, there won’t have been more homeless people living on the street in tents because they would have invested on building more houses or apartment for the citizens who have lost everything due to the earth quake; since most people aren’t able to pay their wages. Most of the hospitals that were destroyed would have been rebuilt if not to perfection but, at least for people to be able to stay there and received treatment, also since there was a lot of hands willing to help in the disaster there would have been medications, treatments, hand sanitizers and lots of supplies for people to use and stay healthy while treating them.
Moreover, there were volunteers from all around the globe willing to help in the recovery, and among them their might have