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2008-02-25 Caribbean-Latin America

Canada pledges $555 million in aid to Haiti

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Posted by Steve White 2008-02-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 An aid worker told me that in one venture infrastructure money went toward building luxury homes for political officials. Haiti is full of usable agricultural land that sits vacant because anything earned from the land would go to corrupt officials. Thus, locals eke out subsistence livings. In other countries, corruption greases some productive wheels. In the poorest countries, it causes them to spin.

Posted by McZoid 2008-02-25 04:23|| 2008-02-25 04:23|| Front Page Top

#2 If any country really wants to help Haiti and other poor countries, they should inform the politicians that they'll send PEOPLE, not CASH. People who teach land management, forestry, agriculture, and ways to help the poor help themselves.

Agricultural missionaries have been doing this for decades. The Southern Baptist Convention, for example, had foresters working to prevent erosion in Haiti, and agricultural experts teaching animal husbandry. In the Phillippines, one agriculturalist developed a whole range of useful projects, like fish and rabbit farming for protein, use of a native shrub as a hedge to shore up terraces for farming (Cheaper than wood and no danger to the forests).

These are just a few examples of thousands.

Posted by mom ">mom 2008-02-25 09:06|| http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com]">[http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com] 2008-02-25 09:06|| Front Page Top

#3 I agree mom, that eating dirt should never be considered nutricious...the VI has pioneered a fish farm that captures the droppings for fertilizer to grow vegetables that works in even the poorest of African nations on the coast and women can work it, not being dependent upon corrupt officials or lazy and abusive men so prevalent in these cultures

Posted by Danielle 2008-02-25 11:27|| 2008-02-25 11:27|| Front Page Top

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