Wednesday, April 16, 2008

More questions than answers

Yesterday the current prime minister of Haiti was ousted from office, due to the crisis surrounding the affordability of food in Haiti.

Thoughts off the top of my head:
  • This situation certainly highlights the vulnerability of the world's poor to whatever is happening to the world's rich.
  • The World Food Project is trying to raise over $90 million to help deal with Haiti's food crisis. $90 million! Even so, it looks like there are problems with getting the food through the bureacracy and paperwork of customs. What's wrong with this picture?
  • How can outsiders step in and help?
  • What are the long-term solutions?
  • Why isn't this more visible to the rest of the world? Why did I have to go digging around various websites before I found out what was going on?

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