But Conille says if nothing changes, neither will Haiti’s desperate situation
Two years ago Thursday, Haiti was pummeled by a Magnitude 7 earthquake in which some 316,000 people died. Many more lost their homes. Since then, there has been some progress in rebuilding. CBS News medical correspondent Dr. Jon LaPook went back to Haiti to find out why more hasn’t been done.
Thirty-five-year-old Gilna Pierre is cooking the only meal of the day for her family and neighbors. It’s 90 degrees and her coal stove on a stone ledge is surrounded by tattered tents in the area called Katalpa, 카지노사이트 just outside Port-au-Prince. Two years after Haiti’s earthquake, her family is among 500,000 other Haitians still without permanent homes.
“What is the government doing for you?” LaPook asked her.
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“They don’t do anything,” she said.
LaPook then spoke with Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille. “The Haitians are a very patient people. Are you worried that that patience might run out?”
“Every single day,” said Conille.
Prime Minister Conille has been in office for three months. This American-educated doctor knows he’s got a tough road ahead.
Three billion dollars had been donated to Haiti to rebuild. According to the United Nations, the Haitian government got only 18 percent of that money. Much of the balance went to the nearly 20,000 charities the prime minister estimates are operating in the country. So why does the nation look so broken?
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