It is 3:33 A.M. March 17, 2013 and I am working, writing by the light of a coal oil lamp. There has been no electricity since yesterday.
The night is silent, except for the sounds of insects and the occasional bark of a dog. This nocturnal Haitian peace is now broken by the anguished cries of a woman, somewhere out there in the night. The hopeless agony of someone, in a society that has few cures, or hopes, for those who really need help.
Perhaps a child has died.
Perhaps her husband.
There will be no consolation.
Only more sorrow, in a society doomed to an accelerating hardship, that takes what little exists. That has now taken something precious, from that nameless, faceless voice of Haiti, out there in the night.
I feel an empty hopelessness.
There is so much to do, and so little to do it with.
The cries have ended, and the sounds of a Haitian night prevail, once again.
It is 3:46, and an eternity has begun, or has it ended?
I throw this thought, out onto the Internet, like a message enclosed in a bottle, tossed off a dock, and into the ocean’s endless, wandering currents. Perhaps, someone out there will understand the Message and send help.
Collins
March 17,2013
Michel
A very deep and profound message
Omega Staff Writers
And Haiti cried.
We are a nation with non social conscience.
WELL, THE UN HAS NOT FOUND THE NOTE IN THE BOTTLE
The aid group Doctors Without Borders said last Tuesday that the cholera crisis in Haiti is getting worse, for the most unnecessary and appalling of reasons: a lack of money and basic medical supplies.
The disease has killed 8,000 people and sickened 649,000 since October 2010. International efforts to defeat the epidemic include a 10-year, $2.2 billion plan for major investments in clean water, sanitation and medical infrastructure. But that is a project for the future, one that isn’t even funded yet.
Doctors Without Borders says people are dying now, needlessly, because attention and money are running out. Aid groups are leaving. Staff members at some treatment centers haven’t been paid in months, equipment is wearing out, and sanitary precautions are being abandoned.
The death rate has reached an intolerably high 4 percent in some places, the group said. And the rainy season is about to make things much more difficult.
THE DEATH TOLL IS MUCH MORE THAN 8,000
Some suggest our total loss may exceed 40,000.
And now they proposal using copper sulphate which is is bad as cholera.