Haiti earthquake disaster reveals a lot
It has been a month or so since the Haiti disaster.The main lesson learned is that it was a huge disaster. More people were directly killed by that earthquake than we have seen in a long time. The Indonesia tsunami was terrible but it also involved a huge wall of water that swept in from the ocean. Haiti was struck by a quake that was directly under its main city.
The scale of the disaster showed the capability of some organizations to respond to almost any kind of a disaster, the limits of other organizations to control people who need help and those that want to take that help away. It showed how some people try to profit from a disaster, no matter what the cost to others- even if they just get a little out of it.
It also showed again than humanitarian aid knows no bounds of distance and that generosity, not just greed - is a human trait.
Labels: disaster
posted by John Collins @ 5:20 PM
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