Haiti Jobs Earthquake
Welding Students Help Displaced Haitians After the Earthquake
Haiti continues its slow march toward recovery from the 7.0 magnitude earthquake that devastated the nation on January 12, 2010. The earthquake caused massive damage to the island nation, killing nearly a quarter of a million people and leaving a million homeless. Thus, these million people are living in tent cities, lacking proper shelter and sanitation. These dire living conditions provide little protection from adverse weather conditions and encourage the spread of disease. Neither the Haitian government nor foreign governments have devised an adequate shelter strategy for these displaced people.
Fortunately, private aid groups are stepping up to the plate. In fact, the Give Love Foundation, in cooperation with welding students at the Robert Morgan Educational Center, is creating homes for these displaced Haitian families. The Give Love Foundation is transforming reusable shipping containers into temporary homes. They are painting the containers with a special radiant barrier coating that will help keep the interiors of the homes cool. The homes are designed to hold up in heavy winds and rains in addition to earthquakes.
Welding Together Hope
The welding students are assisting the project by finishing steel doors that will be hung on the structures. The doors, of course, are a significant improvement for the families since many of them live in tents without doors. The steel doors provide protection against the elements. After the welding students finish the doors, the shipping containers and the doors are shipped to Haiti, where they will be finished by workers there.
About a dozen welding students from the Robert Morgan Education Center participated in the charitable project. The welding students appreciated the simple design of the project and enjoyed giving back to those in need. The project received additional publicity when actress Patricia Arquette came on board as a sponsor.
The houses will meet the immediate shelter needs of displaced Haitian families for two years. After the two year timeline, The Give Love Foundation will donate 22 of the houses to L'Athletique D'Haiti for their soccer and after-school program. The foundation will donate the remaining houses to the families that live in them or they will donate them to schools, orphanages, community clinics, and libraries.
Providing Assistance to Those in Need
The project shows the significant community service that welders can offer with their specific set of skills. The students at the Robert Morgan Education Center provided a terrific example of such community service. The houses on which these students worked will serve as shelters and community buildings for the Haitian people for many years to come. This project is indeed a triumph for the welding community!
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Do people still believe after this that Haiti is wishing only for handouts?
UN chief Ban Ki-moon has paid tribute to the 101 UN "heroes" who died in the Haiti quake at a ceremony in New York.
Mr Ban, his voice breaking at times, said: "We will never forget you. We will carry on your work."
Hundreds of UN workers joined relatives of those who died for the memorial at the UN headquarters.
Meanwhile, Haitian President Rene Preval is in Washington to seek support from US President Barack Obama on ways to boost Haiti's battered economy.
Mr Preval has said the first phase of the crisis caused by January's massive earthquake was over.
He said he would thank President Obama for the food aid Haiti had received, but that outside aid was now in danger of discouraging Haitian commerce, so the emphasis should be on creating jobs to kick start the economy.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8558880.stm
I feel sorry for the Haitians but if we can't create jobs here, how will we do it there?
Haiti Jobs Earthquake
Haiti: Mega Hotel, Mega Revival
Something I Said -- Review of Mahmoud El-Kati's "Haiti: The Hidden Truth"
Arts No Chaser -- Mahmoud El-Kati's
Haiti: The Hidden Truth
Dwight Hobbes/MN Spokesman-Recorder
Mahmoud El-Kati's
Haiti: The Hidden Truth (
Papyrus Publishing Inc
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begins on a faltering note before righting itself to evolve into a valuable piece of engaging, well-informed reading.
The author offers the coy statement, "Here rests but a feeble attempt to challenge [the]...simplistic view...of Haiti as only a place of social death." False modesty does not become this veteran scribe, a renowned wordsmith and vaunted historian as no attempt of his to convey a concept has ever been remotely feeble and he knows it. Or certainly should by now with several well received books, not to mention volumes of raptly attended essays under his belt.
Once El-Kati stops pussyfooting around and comfortably gets it in gear, his characteristic flow is at its fluid best, delivering uncanny insight, scholarly grace and compelling passion.
The forceful thrust and unerring aim of this work indicts media malfeasance and socio-political complicity as a literal whitewashing of history to ruthlessly render African blood in general and Haiti in specific as an ignorant and inept, virtually subhuman species. "At bottom", El-Kati asserts, "the conquered land of the indigenous populations of 'The New World' and the forced labor importation of Africans is what changed forever the course of human history. This over 500 year-old inhuman event is, indeed, the greatest story never told." Whereupon he sets the record straight in no uncertain terms and with such exhaustive research that
Haiti: The Hidden Truth
belongs on the shelf of every young mind that stands to benefit from coming face to face with the facts and every teacher interested in telling students what actually happened instead of perpetrating the insidious propaganda that has long been passed off as education.
El-Kati makes clear that it took, of all things, a devastating turn of events, the colossal, mind-numbing catastrophe of 2010's earthquake near Port au Prince, which ended at least a quarter of a million lives (the final count has yet to be taken) to render Haitian humanity real to, as it were, perceptions that be. Real enough, at any rate, to inspire Red Cross aid and other such conscience salving social service as the White world is prone to provide before returning to its business as usual practice of ignoring disenfranchised nations of color. He does this by incontrovertibly attesting to what Haiti and who its people have always been, a land and populace to which determinedly hard sought, hard fought autonomy is its lifeblood.
An example of the information characteristically ignored in schools, for instance, is that years before his undoing at Waterloo (just as much by the impossibly brutal winter as the Russian army), rampaging conqueror Napoleon Bonaparte had been soundly defeated in Haiti by warriors who called a fierce, indomitable will to defy subjugation at the hands of the French. El-Kati observes, "The voice of Toussaint L'Ouverture echoed to other patriots throughout the struggle. When Napoleon sent his brother-in-law, Charles Victor Emmanuel Leclerc, as head of 30,000 crack troops -- France's finest -- to retake the island, L'Ouverture's words rang true:
Burn the cities. Poison the wells. Scorch the earth. Show the white man the hell her came to
make
."
Haiti: The Hidden Truth does a fine job of illustrating that just as has been the case all over the world whenever people of color catch hell from the White man, it is not through the any such thing as White supremacy, the timeless delusion of supremacy actually is a matter of ruthless and treacherous domination by means much closer to crass, xenophobic cowardice than anything else.
As a bonus of sorts, there's a mini-primer, 10 Good Things To Know About Haiti, 8 of which cite noteworthy names in history. For instance, it points out that legendary dancer Katherine Dunham (who also was an anthropologist) incorporated aspects of Haitian culture in her choreography. And that W.E.B. DuBois, a founder of the NAACP and the first son of Africa to earn a Ph D from Harvard, was the son of a Haitian.
As entertaining as it is informative (as scholarly achievement doesn't have to be boring to teach something worthwhile), Haiti: The Hidden Truth is an excellent addition to your library and a perfect conversation piece to leave laying around on your coffee table.
About the Author
Coming: "Angels Don't Really Fly" EP by Dwight Hobbes & The All-Star Hired Guns featuring Alicia Wiley. The crew: Me, Alicia Wiley, Stanley Kipper, Chico Perez, Jeff "Boday" Christensen, Aaron "Orange A.C." Cosgrove and Yohannes Tona. Singer-songwriter Dwight Hobbes recorded the single "Atlanta Children" (BeatBad Records) and gigged 10 years in the Long Island/NYC area, including The Other End, Kenny's Castaways and My Fathers Place. Fronted the Boston blues band Midlight. In Minneapolis, Hobbes opened for David Daniels at First Street Entry, James Curry at Terminal Bar, sat in with Yohannes Tona, Alicia Wiley at Sol Testimony's Soul Jam, The New Congress at Babalu, Willie Murphy at the Viking Bar and Wain McFarlane & Jahz at Lucille's Kitchen. Dwight Hobbes still drops in at the occasional open mic around town. Dwight Hobbes has written for ESSENCE, Reader's Digest, Washington Post, Minneapolis Star Tribune, St. Paul Pioneer Press, City Pages, Mpls/St. Paul, MN Law & Politics, Pulse of the Twin Cities, Twin Cities Daily Planet, Women & Word, San Diego Union-Tribune, The Circle, to Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder (where he contributes the commentary columns Hobbes In The House and Something I Said. He's spoken his mind over National Public Radio, Minnesota Public Radio and KMOJ in Minneapolis and St. Paul. Was regularly featured as guest commentator on NewsNight Minnesota (KTCA-Minneapolis/St. Paul) and Spectator (Minneapolis Television Network). His monthly column "Hobbes In The House" in MN Spokesman Recorder comments on domestic abuse and rape. His plays are Shelter - produced at Mixed Blood Theatre by Pangea World Theater, Dues - produced by Mixed Blood Theatre, University of Southern Illinois in Point of Revue, selected for Bedlam Theatre's 10-Minute Play Festival and published by Playscripts, Inc. You Can't Always Sometimes Never Tell - produced by Theater Center Philadelphia, Long Island University, reading at The Kennedy Center and published in the anthology CENTER STAGE, In the Midst - produced by Long Island University, starring Samuel E. Wright. Hobbes spoke on the panel "Farewell To August Wilson" at the Guthrie Theater, broadcast on Conversations With Al McFarlane (KFAI, KMOJ). Twin Cities Daily Planet articles archived at www.tcdailyplanet.net/dwighthobbes
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