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"It's as if everybody has forgotten us, nobody cares…"
More than a week has already passed after a terrible earthquake in Haiti. Every building was destroyed. The locals still wait for help, because it’s clear for everybody that such a poor country can’t cope with this problem and “build” new cities by itself. That’s why so many people from all over the world try to do everything that is possible.
Life for the residents has improved a bit since Sunday, when some volunteers brought beds so the elderly didn't have to sleep on the ground with rats scampering by. Also some relatives and volunteers have made small food offerings and helped wash and medicate the patients. On Monday, the Brazilian aid group brought a large tanker of drinking water. People try to find some food themselves in order not to starve to death. So for most people boiled rice has been the first food since the earthquake. They have not eaten since.
And one more huge problem here now is that people are lack of medicine: "My friends, they need medicine so badly," said nurse Jesula Maurice, shaking her head. Maurice came to check on her ailing brother at the hospice and said she had worked around the clock for days stitching up wounds and cleaning cuts of all the quake victims she could help. A pharmacist gave her two suitcases of basic medicine, but the supplies quickly ran out. "There's such a desperate need for antibiotics here," Maurice said.
No doubt, this is real distress for many people. And we all hope that with the help of the international aid the problem will be solved.
I think the tragedy also proves that once again the lives of ordinary people have become so fragile in the face of the indomitable energy of nature. An it is so sad that the poorest countries are endangered most of all. They can't cope with the disaster only by themselves and it is the global duty to help them scrabble out of the situation. The authorities have a strange habit to linger in case of urgent matters; and I reckon that unless we learn to act on the environment quickly, we are destined to suffer a great deal of unexpected calamities.
I think the shock over civilian deaths and enormous devastations will be in news headlines for long. It's definite that the whole world community should offer aid and a humanitarian support of any kind. The tragedy proves that we live on a tiny planet and must give a helping hand in times of disaster.
