At 4:53 local time on Tuesday, January 12, 2010, the town of Léogne, Haiti, approximately 16 miles west of Port-au-Prince, the capital, would change forever.The Haitian Government reports that between 217,000 and 230,000 people have been identified as dead, an estimated 300,000 injured, and an estimated 1,000,000 homeless. They expect the death toll to rise. That day people not only lost homes but loved ones.
When you think about Haiti, all you remember are the nice telethons and the new “We Are the World” song. But what people fail to realize is what really happens when the songs, cameras and donations end. It seems that we are starting to hear less and less about the situation.
But as that happens there is still a young boy or girl out there homeless and hungry.
What will be going on in Haiti two to three years from now? Who or what will be helping Haiti stand on its own some day? Seems as if those are the questions that the media never have an answer to.
How you rebuild a whole community from rubble is the big question. Throughout this whole disaster, some people don’t realize the years it will take to fix the problems.
But it is up to us the people to make sure that our foreign brothers and sisters are being helped, because at the end of the day we are all human beings.