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...Totally. On my second FOP trip, during my senior year, we got into the vestiges of a hurricane and had to get off the river and take shelter in this storage equipment building in a state park. It felt a lot like “Lost.” I had all these incoming freshmen on a very wild and wet experience...
...detractors, cash-for-work is glorified street sweeping - a small-scale, feel-good scheme that helps deflect attention from how poorly the U.N. is doing with bigger, more consequential jobs like getting displaced Haitians decent shelter and sanitation facilities. But its backers say the program bears the seeds not only of a more effective rebuilding effort in Haiti, but of a new development strategy that's less about top-down, welfare-style aid and more about economy-stimulating engagement of the grassroots. "The old, more paternalistic way of doing charity was easier," says Brazilian aid worker Eliana Nicolini, a UNDP...
...some ways, this shelter effect can be beneficial; as students, Harvard filmmakers do not have to face the harsh realities of the suffering film industry. As a newcomer, McGlade has already encountered difficulties in finding a distributor for “Guy and Madeline.” “This year, last year, financially everyone’s taken a hit, and distributors aren’t taking the same risks that they used to,” said McGlade. “It’s been a really tough year for independent film...
...Haiti has a "good recovery action plan," one that "won't just rebuild what was destroyed but present the Haiti that we're all dreaming of" 10 years down the line, he tells TIME. Yet the only dream Haitians have right now is of something waterproof over their heads - shelter that their officials and foreign relief agencies seem unable to deliver in appreciable quantities more than a month after the earthquake. "Clearly, they're waiting for more from their government and the international community," Bellerive concedes. "When you still have 10% of your population living in the streets, when basic...
...First they have to prove that they can work more efficiently on immediate postquake urgencies like temporary shelter. Port-au-Prince's roads and streets are passable now, many businesses are humming again and the vibrant color of Haitian food markets has begun to compete with the gray ocean of crushed concrete. But so far only about a quarter of the 1.2 million Haitians who lost homes have been given tents (which relief agencies argue are scarce right now on the global market) or plastic sheeting (which those agencies now say is more practical than tents). Sanitation is even scarcer...