Why do we wait to help?
A big disaster has to take place in order to give help. Haiti is a place that could have used help before the earthquake. However, no one cared. Why all of a sudden people feels sorry for them? I think the USA help should not only be after a disaster, but, all the time. We are going to get involved anyway. Why not help countries learn how to solve their own problems and not depend so much on US.
The general idea is that a somewhat functioning nation will be able to learn and grow by them selves without much help from others. It often works too, but in cases of catastrophes this changes. The help they get is through politics, advice and so on and is not as noticeable as jets with food landing on a runway. I’d also like to point out that the US is not the only one that helps.
A more important problem in my opinion is that when something like this happens, a big catastrophe, people focus on it and forget the rest of the world that needs help. A good example is the 2004 tsunami when the majority of all resources went there and left other disasters that wasn’t in the news all the time to fend for themselves. People died because the money that usually was sent to their region went to the tsunami instead. Even more disturbing was that the tsunami victims got so much money and things that some of the begged people to stop sending stuff. “My child only need one backpack, he has 10 now.” Said one woman. The cost of those 9 extra backpacks could have saved the lives of several children in another part of the world.
I’m watching this (Haiti) and I’m wondering how many will die in other parts of the world and how many will get rich on the money sent to Haiti because the money end up in their pockets rather than to help.
Haiti Before Earthquake