... VIII. Assessing Risk Factors28 IX. The Management Plan33 X. Summary38 XI. References39 II. Executive Summary Alvi H2O Inc. is an industry that provides new portable water purifier using Bio Sand Filter to target Haiti where there is a need in clean drinking water. The product is in high demand in Haiti as the country recovers from the 2010 earthquake. The company began in June 2013 with Alvaro Padilla as the president and founder. He is also the chief executive of operations and oversees all the operations in the business. He has the capability of running this business successfully since he holds an International Master in Business Administration. The management team to the company is also composed of Andrew Yap as the director of operations whose role is to oversee all the operational aspects of the business and Kimberly Taylor who will assist the director of operations in controlling and organizing resources in the organization. In addition, all of the management team will have the capacity to enable the company to achieve its goals and objectives. Business management and administration are major requirements for all our management team in order to run the business effectively. Alvi H2O Inc. provides an innovative Alvi Deluxe that helps in water purification. This new portable water purifier will ensure every...
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...William Welch ECS3013 – International Economic Development Professor Bullman Introduction Haiti covers a total of 27, 750 sq. km in the Caribbean between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean. Bordering the Dominican Republic to the west, Haiti is also one-third of the island of Hispaniola. The mountains in Haiti cause the terrain to be mainly rough and the climate to be semiarid in the East where the trade winds are eliminated. Western Haiti features a more tropical climate. Prominent natural resources of Haiti are copper, calcium carbonate, gold, and marble. The population of Haiti is consisted of 9,801,664 individuals with 95% of individuals being ethnically black, and 5% being mulatto and/or white. French and Creole are the two official languages of Haiti. Regarding religion, the majority of Haitians are Roman Catholic (eighty percent), with the remainder of the population being Protestant, Baptist, Pentecostal, Adventist, Other, or None. A fascinating detail is roughly half of Haiti’s population practices voodoo. The economy of Haiti can be described as a misadventure. Haiti is a free market economy, enjoying advantages of low labor costs and tariff-free access for many of their exports from the United States. Haiti is known for their textile, sugar refining, flour milling, and cement industries. In addition, corn, coffee, sugarcanes, mangoes, and wood are many of the products from agriculture that are present in Haiti’s economy. On the other hand, corruption...
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...Why were so many people killed in the Haiti earthquake of 2010? On the 12th of January 2010 at 16:53 local time, a devastating 7.0 magnitude earthquake had struck near Port au Prince, the capital of Haiti. This earthquake was caused by a plate boundary which had not caused an earthquake for 200 years. Most of the primary impacts of the earthquake included; 3,500,000 people being affected by the quake, 220,000 were estimated to have died, over 300,000 people were injured as well as 188,383 houses being rigorously damaged. 4,000 schools were damaged or destroyed and over 600,000 people left their home area in Port-au-Prince and mostly stayed with host families. After the quake there were 19 million cubic metres of rubble and debris in Port au Prince leaving 1.5 million people homeless. This earthquake has suffered for many years being known as one to cause the most wreckage and disturbance, however why did the strongest earthquake that ever hit earth at a richer scale of 9.5 only kill 1655 people compared to Haiti's death rate at 220,000? Port au Prince, being the capital of Haiti unfortunately endured a lot of the wreckage due to the earthquake. Several of the important governmental structures of Port au Prince were destroyed or damaged, including the Presidential Palace, a parliament building and the Port au Prince Cathedral. Most of the city's community buildings were also destroyed. A large amount of the environmental society was in danger due to the fact of buildings and...
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...Haiti Earthquake of 2010– Vulnerabilities and Resiliency On the 12th of January in 2010 at 4.53 pm Haiti was struck by a massive earthquake that is considered as one of the deadliest earthquakes in the western hemisphere in a century (Chinn, 2011). According to The Haiti Earthquake (2013) it killed 220.000 people, injured 250.000 people and left more than a million homeless. The earthquakes’ characteristics: There are several different aspects of Haiti earthquake that amplified its impact. First of all, Haiti is located on the edge of the Caribbean plate that crushes into the Atlantic plate (The Haiti Earthquake, 2013). This area is known for its tectonic activities as the plates are constantly moving and creating friction between them,...
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...Case Study of Haiti Earthquake 12th January 2010. 1. How many people were approximately killed? * Between 217,000 and 230,000 people had been identified as dead and estimated 300,000 were injured 2. Why was the impact on Port au Prince significant? * The design and structure of buildings was of very poor quality which contributed to the high number of deaths 3. What are the names of the plates and type of plate boundary? * The Caribbean plate and the North American plate slipped past each other at a conservative plate boundary 4. Where were the epicentre and focus? * The focus of the earthquake was 13km (8.1 miles) below the surface of the earth. * The epicentre was 25km west of Port-Au-Prince and 130km east of Les Cayes, Haiti 5. What has been the historical earthquake activity in the region? * There have been roughly 7 major earthquakes in Haiti since the 1960’s 6. What causes amplification and liquifaction? Why were these processes significant? * Amplification refers to the level of shaking and is influenced by the softness of rocks and the thickness of surface sediments. * Liquefaction is a naturally occurring event in which the strength of soil is reduced by earthquake shaking and it reduces the soils ability to support structures thus making them more likely to collapse 7. How many people live in Port au Prince? * Approximately 704,776 people live in Port-Au-Prince as recorded in 2003 8. How many were...
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...Haiti earthquake of 2010 was the “perfect disaster”. To what extent is this statement true? Haiti, one of the anomalies in the Northern Hemisphere, being that it is amongst the world’s poorest countries. Having 32% of its GDP relying on remittances is just an indicator of the dire situation Haiti has struggled to deal with. On a scale on 1 to 10, when 10 is the perfect disaster the 2010 earthquake in Haiti would easily rate 9.9. Its dire economic situation along with decades of government mismanagement and its precarious geographic location all adds to Haiti being a perfect disaster. A perfect disaster criterion is that the preconditions of the country were dismal including an unstable government and an ailing economic situation, a large ratio of humans were killed, and on top of that the post-disaster response would be slow and inadequate leading to the country not being able to recover quickly or at all. Before the 2010 earthquake Haiti had a bad reputation for corruption, in 2008 Haiti was ranked 4th most corrupt country in the world. Due to the corruption, the little building codes Haiti had were not correctly enforced because of fraudulent officials being paid off with bribes, enabling construction workers to cut corners creating unstable buildings with no earthquake resistance. This meets the criteria of a perfect disaster by having dismal preconditions with corruption integrated with the way of life. As any other typical LEDC, Haiti had very poor urban planning largely...
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...Health Status and Health Care Services in Haiti with Comparison to the United States Teffanie Cummings DeVry University Introduction to Health Services Management Course Project/ HSM310 April 21, 2014 Dr. Becky Foster OUTLINE TITLE I. Executive Summary * II. Haiti Healthcare Status A. Population without healthcare insurance B. Mortality, Infant mortality data, causes of death C. Healthcare Insurance available to the poor III. Availability of Health Services A. Fundamental Life Insurance B. Red Cross C. Medicaid IV. Expenditures A. Who pays for the healthcare B. Total cost for the healthcare overall C. The Government V. Influences on the health care system A. Cultural influence B. Does society have anything to do with Haiti healthcare? C. What does politics have to do with Haiti healthcare VI. Summary A. What are the biggest healthcare problems in Haiti B. United States healthcare system compared to Haiti healthcare C. What opportunities can be offer to help Haiti healthcare * VII. Conclusion Abstract By every measure found Haiti is known to be the poorest country in the Western hemisphere and that makes they have the worst healthcare system. The can only afford around $85.00 or less per person for healthcare and the population is around 8 million (Whyte, 2010). Healthcare in Haiti is like nonexistent over half the population is unemployed and the...
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...Hope for Haiti? On January 12th, 2010, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck ten miles from Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince, plummeting the already poorest country in the Western Hemisphere completely to the ground (Huttes 1). The Earth shook violently for 35 seconds, “walls rippled as if they were made of liquid,” and Haitians ran out onto the streets screaming, thinking the rapture had arrived (Woolley 41). Within days, millions of dollars of foreign aid flowed into Haiti, but every day remained a struggle for survival. 230,000 Haitians were killed instantly, morgues soon overflowed, and the stench of flesh contaminated the streets. The death toll grew so large that corpses were hauled to mass graves to be buried with hundreds of their fellow countrymen. Identities were lost forever, and hundreds and thousands of children were orphaned and left homeless. The scale of the disaster was massive beyond comprehension, and foreign aid reached only small fractions of the population. The outside world began to ask, “What would it take to rebuild Haiti?” More importantly, “What would it take to remove Haiti from their 200 year pattern of poverty and failure (Smith)?” Throughout its history, Haiti has constantly depended on foreign aid, especially from the United States and France. Today, over two years after the earthquake, they’re still in great need of assistance. We as Americans owe it to our resilient Caribbean brothers to lead them to a prosperous and thriving future. While helping...
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...M14/3/ECONO/SP2/ENG/TZ0/XX 22145113 ECONOMICS STANDARD LEVEL PAPER 2 Tuesday 6 May 2014 (morning) 1 hour 30 minutes INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES not open this examination paper until instructed to do so. Do are not permitted access to any calculator for this paper. You Section A: answer one question. Section B: answer one question. fully labelled diagrams and references to the text/data where appropriate. Use maximum mark for this examination paper is [40 marks]. The 2214-5113 9 pages © International Baccalaureate Organization 2014 M14/3/ECONO/SP2/ENG/TZ0/XX –2– SECTION A Answer one question from this section. 1. Study the extract below and answer the questions that follow. Japan in first trade gap since 1963 Japan’s current account surplus fell 85.5 in November 2011 from a year earlier to % 138.5 billion Japanese yen (Japan’s currency) ($1.80 billion), the Ministry of Finance said. In 2011, Japan recorded its first deficit in its balance of trade in goods since 1963. The appreciation of the Japanese yen against the dollar has reduced Japan’s current account surplus. The Japanese yen gained 8.5 % against the dollar in the 12 months since January 2011. The currency has acquired a new and unusual status as a safe haven, reinforced by the eurozone debt crisis since international investors are concerned about the single European currency. It is estimated that a 1 % gain in the Japanese yen could reduce...
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...A glimpse of the future can be seen in Monwa, the most majestic city in the world. Monwa is a lotus-like urban establishment located off the coast of Bel Air, Haiti, where our engineers have incorporated nature and technology together to create this thriving city. In 2010, Bel Air, Haiti suffered a terrible earthquake that devastated the entire population. After hundreds of years, engineers explored the wreckage and decided that they could create a prodigious city with it, and thus, the city of Monwa was born! In the year, 2254 and with a growing population of about 50,000 citizens each year, Monwa was ameliorating every single day. However, as the population grew, problems also began to grow and soon, Haiti was in grave danger. Jobs for farming were almost unbearable, and people were becoming quite miserable. Today, the problem with agriculture is growing like wildfire, never burning out, forever ruining the lives of cities throughout the world, and Haiti is one of the victims. There is less farmable land, more water pollution and scarcity, increased fuel costs, pesticide resistance, and in Haiti, recent hurricanes and earthquakes make our agriculture issues even worse than in other cities....
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...GENDER ASSESSMENT USAID/HAITI June, 2006 This publication was produced for review by the United States Agency for International Development. It was prepared by DevTech Systems, Inc. GENDER ASSESSMENT FOR USAID/HAITI COUNTRY STRATEGY STATEMENT Author: Alexis Gardella DISCLAIMER The author’s views expressed in this publication do not necessarily reflect the views of the United States Agency for International Development or the United States Government. 2 Gender Assessment USAID/Haiti TABLE OF CONTENTS Page Acknowledgements Acronyms Executive Summary 5 6 7 1. GENDER DIFFERENTIATED DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS 1.1 Demographics 1.2 Maternal Mortality 1.3 Fertility 1.4 Contraceptive Use 1.5 HIV Infection 1.6 Education 1.7 Economic Growth 1.8 Labor 1.9 Agriculture and Rural Income 1.10 Rural and Urban Poverty 1.11 Environmental Degradation 9 10 11 12 2. GENERAL OVERVIEW OF GENDER IN HAITIAN SOCIETY 2.1 Status of Haitian Women 2.2 Haitian Social Structure: Rural 2.2.1 Community Level 2.2.2 Inter-Household Level 2.2.3 Intra-Household relations 2.2.4 Economic Division of Labor 2.3 Economic System 2.4 Urban Society 13 3. ONGOING USAID ACTIVITIES IN TERMS OF GENDER FACTORS OR GENDER-BASED CONSTRAINTS 3.1 Sustainable Increased Income for the Poor (521-001) 3.2 Healthier Families of Desired Size (521-003) 3.3 Increased Human Capacity (521-004) 3.4 Genuinely Inclusive Democratic Governance Attained (521-005) 3.5 Streamlined Government (521-006) 3.6 Tropical Storm Recovery Program...
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... Haiti is a known country with different and notable attributes; some are good while others are as bad. It has a population of 9.8 million inhabitants making it the most populous state in the Caribbean. Haiti is the first republic of the African descent and it is the second oldest country in the continent America from the US. On the other hand, Haiti was known to abolish slavery without extensive blood letting as compared to other nations in the continent. Haiti in economic terms, has the lowest per capita income in the continent (Richard, 1991). Haiti is one of the poorest countries in the world, and has been facing economic challenges as well as ecological obstacles for development. Over the years, the country’s economy has been deteriorating. Frequent ocurrence of natural calamities like floods and earthquake have made the Haiti’s economy sink deeper. According to the World Bank, in 1988, it was the only country in the Americas that had US$425. In the 1980s, the Haitian economy started to be dependent on agriculture, although, depending on agriculture alone could not sustain the country’s economy bearing that the labor cost have risen compared to the decrease in exports. Agricultural expansion in the country contributed to the deforestations which on the other hand caused soil erosions hence reduced production. There were other several avenues that contributed to the Haiti’s economy that included manufacturing, tourism and transportation. Haiti was considered...
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...Disaster Relief Management The Good and Bad of Disaster Relief Ceazare Kemp Public Administration and Policy 311 Ms. Bastedo Abstract: Whether you are from Oklahoma or New Jersey, Florida, California, Texas, Haiti, Thailand or Japan; Mother Nature holds no punches when it comes to dishing out her forms of friendly storms. Natural disasters have made a major financial, physical and mental impact on the people of the world. When disaster strikes and people are forced out of there neighborhood and homes, people want to know that when something like this happens, there is someone there to have their back; a piece of mind. In 1979, the Federal Emergency Management Agency was formed to help with state and local governments within the United States and the International Association of Emergency Managers was formed to help state, federal and governments ensure that their people have peace of mind. Table of Contents I. Introduction 3 II. Hurricane Katrina 4 III. Natural disasters in the United States 6 IV. Earthquake and tsunami in Japan 8 V. Natural disasters in the world 9 VI. Closing 11 VII. Reference 13 I. INTRODUCTIONS The environment is always changing and the people of the United States should always be aware of what could happen to them if they are not prepared for what Mother Nature do to their surroundings with no notice. There are several types of natural disasters that can maim...
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...Geography 40 mark EQ question Discuss the statement: The extent to which earthquakes present a hazard depends on where they are experienced. (40 marks) A Hazard is best defined as a situation that’s ‘a potential source of harm or adverse health effect on a person or persons’. An earthquake is a tectonic event which can be a huge hazard to people- particularly effecting areas of the earth around convergent, divergent and transform plate boundaries: in both MEDC’s and LEDC’s with equally force. Hazards earthquakes cause can be divided into two sub-categories: primary and secondary effects. Primary effects are the problems that are of direct result of the seismic waves, including effects such as liquefaction, tsunamis and landslides. Primary effects then lead to secondary effects; floods, fires, disease and even malnourishment. However a number of factors can dictate whether these effects present a hazard to people or not- location, whether in a MEDC or LEDC, can dictate the severity of the hazard. To start, I want to highlight the difference in the primary effects of an earthquake. Comparing the factors like death and injuries- or social effects- and then the environmental effects in looking at the destruction of infrastructure experienced in varying parts of the world. To highlight this difference of place: using an EQ in a LEDC and one in a MEDC. So looking at deaths and injuries we can see as an overall trend there tends to be more deaths caused form the initial...
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...Risk analysis 1 Intro The world community reacted promptly after the unprecedented disaster in Haiti and thanks to the intentions of many donors or agencies a big amount of money was initially pledged and disbursed. The $5.5 bn that was pledged for the first two years following the earthquake and the additional $9.9 bn which likely to be pledged over the next decade, gained the impression that the country would be rebuilt efficiently. Nevertheless, the progress that has been noticed up to the present has not fulfilled the expectations neither the donors nor the Haitian government and their citizens (Benoit 2012). Even if there is a strategic planning process which is being implemented sufficiently, the Government of Haiti and the agencies who act on place will face some risks. The potential sources of risks that likely to be faced are financial, political, operational - environmental, social. The following table represents thoroughly the potential risk sources, the impact that these will have if occur as well as other details like the likelihood of an event to occur. For instance, the disappointment of donors might lead to a reduction of the amounts that they have committed to fund. Actions like this would be extremely unfavourable for the country due to their impact to the entire strategy plan. Moreover, it is obvious that Haiti, geographically, is placed in a sensitive area. In August 2008 the country was struck by destructive hurricanes and none can predict...
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