Tuesday 14 January 2014

Haiti Mission Disaster Management Giving Hope

By Amanda Bean


Haiti is a small country located within the regions of the Caribbean and it shares Hispaniola Island with the Santo Domingo Republic. The country is famous for its poverty state in the western region because a larger number of its population earns less than $1USD a day. Perhaps this could be because of the regular earth tremors, which many Haiti Mission disaster management crew are trying their best to control.

The disaster that hit this country was one of the most dangerous kinds ever reported in its entire history. It actually led to the loss of many lives and the destruction of valuable property. What makes it even worst is that the fatalities that took place happened within a very small, precisely within 100KM within the region of Port-au-Prince, killing about twenty-five percent of the entire population in this region.

The problems of this country actually became a concern of so many international bodies including the United Nation, the government of the United States of America, the European Commission. In actual sense, the incident that occurred left so many people without hope and homes as well. The mission team to this state, therefore, was going to focus on helping people meet their material and social needs.

They made sure that these people got enough food and water supply wherever they were. In addition, the missionary team provided them with temporary shelters where they could lay their head as renovation progressed. The crew also took the initiative of addressing matters of hygiene among the people.

The UNEP initiated a program in this country that would see the people becoming economically stable. Through the HRI, the vulnerability of disasters and poverty in the country would reduce. The plan seeks to restore the ecosystem of the country and improve the lives of the people through effective management of natural resources.

It is important to note that after major perils took place, Haiti was left with a lot of waste and debris, which required a lot of management. Proper management of the debris includes collection, sorting, treatment process and effective disposals. This means that the mission team would be an important part in the management of the effects of perils.

The debris most collected came from residential and business buildings and the sites where constructions took place. Reinforced concrete and the hollow bricks were the debris collected in bulk. A program was put in place to help with the collection of reusable hollowed bricks. In addition, the people living in this region were to take an initiative to gather all the bars as scrap irons.

There is a need to prevent high magnitudes like these in future but to realize this, the Haiti mission crew dealing with disaster management must be ready to ask and answer tough and deep questions about the country. The possibility of another danger, of course of a huge magnitude, in this state may take place at any time and cause many deaths, perhaps more in figure than what is already lost. People in authority should know the actual step to take to save people and the resources of the country.




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