Friday, January 17, 2014

Haiti Mission Disaster Management Bringing Back Hope Inhabitants

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 main report on the disaster that hit this country few years back states that it was the worst that has ever happened in the history of humankind. Many people did not just lose their lives and property of value wasted, but also renovating the country would prove quite difficult. The killing, however, did not affect the whole country, instead, it took place within Port-au-Prince, leaving regions 100KM safe.

International bodies and state representatives such as the United Nations, the Government in the United States, the European Commission had to take part to help the country in such an hour of need. It is obvious that the earth tremor that occurred in this place did not only kill many but also left many people homeless and without hope. When the representatives came to this country, they had a common goal, to address the material and social requirements of its people.

The representatives helped the impacted people through regular supply of food and water. They also provided them with temporary shelters to lay their heads through the times of renovation. In addition, the team took an initiative to address the need of sanitation among the people in this state.

The task of restoring the country back to its feet has not been an easy one though. Even then the United Nation Environmental Program came up with an idea that would see Haiti walk out of poverty. The Haiti Renovation Initiative program came to being. This meant that the vulnerability of poverty and common disasters in this country would start to reduce. The plan was to restore the ecosystem of the country to improve the lives of the people.

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 really an urge for the Haiti mission crew to make sure that disasters of high magnitude such as earthquakes do not take place and if they do, they do not cause anyone problems. Of course, this is a difficult plan to realize. Even then, there is need to do at least what is possible within human ability to prevent such disasters from taking place because they lead to negative results.




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