Essay On Haiti Earthquake

All the natural disasters are unpredictable and no one knows when they will destroy one’s life. The unpredictable disasters occur everywhere, anytime around the world. All the areas shaken on January 12, 2010, Haiti became catastrophic in the sixty seconds, with the largest earthquake in Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti, killed more than 200,000 people. As soon as the unexpected disaster occurred at 4:53 in the afternoon, everything in the area stopped to function as if no one had lived there. In a memoir, The World Is Moving Around Me, Laferrière vividly describes all the events he experienced from Haiti earthquake, showing how the disaster can make great impacts on people’s lives. Human time in Haiti was contained in the sixty seconds that the first violent tremors took to change their lives (Laferrière 23). For once, their misfortune was not exotic. What happened to them could have happened anywhere. Death is always sudden although most of the people are insensitive to the fact in life. It depends on our awareness to respond an unexpected catastrophe and prevent physical and mental effects afterwards. It is an international problem that all the people around the world should help and cooperate to solve following challenges from the chaos. With political and socio-economic aspects of the developing country, there are significant strategies to recover from the catastrophe based on sustainable development in Haiti. The government as well as other organizations work for humanitarian relief around the world and they affect to other international factors such as global health, education and basic needs to live as a human being.

The unimaginable disaster made people struggle to restore their own significant dama...

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...alth Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), and housing for health and education. As PIH’s main goal is to offer health care access to everyone to live as a human, Paul mobilized the world to accept the non-communicable condition in Haiti as a soluble problem – a big change in the end (Kidder 181). PIH has also brought about significant change in health infrastructure by training health community workers and international funds in medicine of chronic diseases such as HIV and TB. With practical measurement to develop the poor country in terms of education, health and hygiene to prevent diseases, other international health organizations such as WHO and the Global Funds should continue to cooperate with the Haitian government to construct more productive and cost-effective supports in their living conditions after the earthquake that can be recovered in the near future.