Haiti and The World: What Next?

The recent devaestation in Haiti has roused people all over the world to rush to everything they can to help out. One of those people is my dad. Today he left with a crew of four others to go do construction work about an hour north of Port-au-Prince. The orphanage his church sponsors was completely devesated, so they're going down to do something about that. One thing he was talking about before he left is how Haiti really always has been in a state of complete devestation, and now that the earthquakes happened the media is really paying more attention than ever to the nearly lost country. For example, the media is making a huge deal about how more than 2 million people have been rendered homeless, when in reality almost all of them were homeless even before the earthquake. Now it's even more difficult to find shelter because there aren't as many allyways to put up tents between (since most of the buildings are destroyed). Haiti always has been in this state of poverty and chaos, but now beacause of the earthquakes more people are finally starting to do something about it. Hopefully this support will continue on after the shock of the disaster, but even if it does, there are still so many areas around the world like Haiti that need as much help as they can get, including places in our own country. And what are we doing about it, as a whole? Very minimal, to say the least. Maybe one day we'll be able to do more. But for now...Who knows.

But, those are my thoughts, not yours.