The "just throwing aid" comment was in general, not in reference to the current crisis. I'll continue to support rescue efforts (and rebuilding efforts) however I can. The scary thing is that I don't know that the world can do enough, fast enough. Or long enough, because this is going to take a long time to recover from and foreign aid has a way of losing interest and taking it's toys and going home long before the problem is actually fixed.
how about other countries get their boots off the Haitians' necks?
Agreed, entirely. This is also part of the article I linked -- apologies but I don't know if the original (which is in a German language news magazine) comes in English. The question is how to give aid such that the aid really helps people in the affected countries, instead of deliberately sabotaging them and keeping them dependent to feed First World greed or First World ego.
First things first, and the world has to help Haiti, yes? But once the immediate crisis is past then what? Haiti needs help to rebuild herself as a strong, self sufficient nation in the way her citizens would want -- not be kept dependent on foreign condescension, or dictated to by foreign value sets. I don't know what the answer to this is.
Thank you also for clarifying about the writer of the original article. I'm not familiar with him, and don't feel I'm missing out by this!
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Date: 2010-01-16 02:08 am (UTC)how about other countries get their boots off the Haitians' necks?
Agreed, entirely. This is also part of the article I linked -- apologies but I don't know if the original (which is in a German language news magazine) comes in English. The question is how to give aid such that the aid really helps people in the affected countries, instead of deliberately sabotaging them and keeping them dependent to feed First World greed or First World ego.
First things first, and the world has to help Haiti, yes? But once the immediate crisis is past then what? Haiti needs help to rebuild herself as a strong, self sufficient nation in the way her citizens would want -- not be kept dependent on foreign condescension, or dictated to by foreign value sets. I don't know what the answer to this is.
Thank you also for clarifying about the writer of the original article. I'm not familiar with him, and don't feel I'm missing out by this!