Haiti, Where's all the Money?

[Colonel Taylor]

http://www.11alive.com/video/default.as ... 2436019001
Didn't they collect Billions of dollars to rebuild?

[Colonel Taylor]

I don't know, but your own link says that much of the promised help never arrived. Or, there's google:

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter on Monday urged donors to honor the billion-dollar pledges they made to help Haiti rebuild after its devastating 2010 earthquake.

Carter's call for greater humanitarian aid to Haiti came on the first day of a weeklong effort to build 100 homes with about 600 volunteers from Habitat for Humanity...

Donor nations and institutions promised $4.46 billion to help Haiti after the quake. But only a little more than half of that money has been released...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/2 ... ref=impact

It was a rhetorical question. So where are the Billions of dollars. Why would anyone donate more when the first go round seems to have disappeared.

[neoplacebo]

Too much voodoo in Haiti. Donors hate voodoo. Plus, Haiti fouls its own nest; not too long ago I saw a story about the differences between Haiti and the Dominican Republic (I think that's who's on the left half of the island....). The story was about natural resources and general wealth of the societies. Aerial photos were shocking to see the lush vegetation on the left half of the island compared with the relative devastation on the Haiti side. I guess that voodoo is some powerful medicine.

[O Really]

In case the Colonel actually would like to know... http://blog.givewell.org/2011/01/10/how ... rspective/