Plans For the future
What can be done to help Position Haiti for future disasters?
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To put Haiti in a better position to protect themselves against future possible natural disasters, they need to create more healthcare facilities, enforce stronger building codes, restrict locations that are prone to being damaged, set building zones, and restrict the height and sizes of buildings. All these plans will allow Haiti to partake in a faster, and easier recovery, and also prevent more deaths and damages. In addition, having emergency centers already stocked with supplies, restricted building codes, and keeping money aside for the use of only reconstruction could have a tremendous affect on Haiti and help prevent further destruction.
What infrastructure can be in place to lessen the impact of disasters and speed recovery?
In order to lessen the impact of disasters and speed up Haiti’s recovery through infrastructures, they need to reconstruct some of their public works like roads and highways. In doing so, they should expand the sizes of the roads, and connect rural roads to coastal, urban roads. This would create easier evacuation routes in case of emergency. In addition, they need to change the materials of which their infrastructure and buildings are made of. They need to use materials like wood and steel, which is more flexible than stucco. Through shifting building materials, Haiti will speed up their recovery from any future natural disasters because the extensive damage will be prevented by the newfound sturdiness of the reconstructed buildings.
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Who is in the best position to consider and pay for the Recovery?
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The United Nations, led by the United States, is in the best position to consider and support Haiti’s recovery options. The United Nations needs to take an active role in deciding what Haiti needs in order to make a comeback. Donors at the United Nations conference have pledged billions of dollars along with other countries and independent non-profit organizations to support Haiti’s recovery. $7.5 billion dollars has been dispersed to different divisions of Haiti’s recovery but most of it has not actually been spent in order to kick off their recuperation. $1.2 billion dollars has gone to short-term relief and aid, like emergency tents and treatments. Although these kinds of relief saves lives and relieves emotional distress, they will not contribute to a long-term effect on the nation. The United Nations needs to focus on spending the dispersed money on long-lasting projects of reconstruction, to allow Haiti to get back on their feet.
Oxfam The Website
Oxfam is an international confederation that works in over 90 countries. When the Haiti Earthquake first occurred in 2010, Oxfam provided a short-term response of sanitation, chlorinated water, and protection programs. By 2011 they invested in a long-term response by handing over their sanitation programs to trained committees, which they continue to supervise. They began working with communities to build stronger and more secured neighborhoods by: supporting construction of sanitation services, responding to cholera outbreaks, supporting employment, and assisting farmers who are dependent upon their produce. “We are committed to long-term recovery support for Haitians.” You can donate at: http://www.oxfam.org/en/haitiquake.
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