Haiti Mission Crew For Disaster Management

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.

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.

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.

There was, in addition, the need to have a control over disaster vulnerability and poverty in this state. For this reason, the United Nations Environmental Program came up with a program by the name the Haiti Renovation Initiative. There is hope that the plan will help to restore the ecosystem of the country and bring and bring about an improvement in the general well being of the people and the state at large.

The series of disasters that took place in this country left a lot of waste that required proper management. Essentially, the debris requires collection, sorting, treatment and proper disposal. The team that came to help in the management of disasters, therefore, became an integral part in disaster management. Most non-governmental organizations became part of this disaster management program.

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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