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Hopefully things are better than a year ago, but think:
1- Over half of your police in Port-au-Prince were killed or injured.

Same with most of the physicians and nurses in the affected area. My church helped with medical work in a church in Bon Repos and judging from the wounds I saw, no one else in the area was doing much. I stayed and helped with Mision Rescate in the police barracks across from the President's palace.

I think someone in government knew what we were doing.

Same with the Spanish, Americans, and others on the University Hospital grounds.

Mision Rescate had a Haitian medical director.

UN forces from Jordan, Peru, Argentina, Peru, and other countries picked up and did what they could for the people around them.
Israeli, French, German, Canadian, Venezuelan, Uruguayan, Jamaican, Cuban, and many other military and NGO's came- surely you had some idea about these
people.

Your facilities were destroyed and you had so few living uninjured
Haitians able to help-- those who could it seemed to me did.

2- It is almost a year now. Hopefully you can coordinate with various NGOs to give the kind of help they are able to give in places underserved- so there is not too much dulication.

It is to be hoped that the police, ministry of health, education ministry, etc. are now to a point where they can communicate needs and help coordinate.

3- You had no resources at your command.

You had a poor country with no reserves of food, medicines, tents, or enough uninjured live personel or undamaged buildings.

Many people blamed you for not doing the impossible.

4- All NGO's and aid workers have an agenda or expertise.

Those who work with your churches will always want to partner with their own or those with whom they have established relationships.

They need to listen to you and you I am sure know to listen to them.

5- You need to guard against the occasional flakes or fraudsters that come to Haiti with foolish or dishonest motives.

And against the occasional Haitian flakes who think foriegners bring some occult malicious program.

I hope that your government has recovered enough to take more command than was possible last year.

Brian Sitterley, January 5 2011, 8:27 PM

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