NEW YORK - What do have hope? Christie's eyes chase the words of the "Chants d'Esperance" highlighted on the page: "Dans le Cieux et sur la terre / The aucun nom n'est plus doux." In heaven and on earth there is no sweeter name: just believe it. "At 9: French lesson" yet announced the program written with chalk on the blackboard that no rescuer now remove more than dreams.UNICEF volunteers say that is the thing of the past that does not pass. He resisted all the blackboard. He resisted the more violent earthquake with which the affectionate name that God has plagued Haiti: 230 000 deaths and more than half a million displaced. He survived the cholera that has run down on even a hurricane: three thousand dead, "3841-29 December 2010" lets you know what's left of the Ministry of Health.
He resisted the infamy slower reconstruction of the story: only 5 percent of the debris, says the NGO Oxfam, have been cleared from the streets. And then imagine that reconstruction can imagine, with 58 percent of the aid promised by the States, ie more than half the $ 2.1 billion announced, shockingly never arrived.
We should lower their gaze in shame us all, and Christie, Christie Lafontant, lowering his eyes to read but still dancing in my head the words of the songs he knows best, "Mark, angnin m-ka pa ba ou / Select gnou Ké ki Bouki Soufriere, KCD6, Kreyol Chant d'Esperance number 6, the Creole chant here is a kind of national anthem.
One year after the earthquake that shook the world, Haiti is a soul divided in two. Little Christie, for example, chose hope. The board promises that lesson still remains well there, a reminder of everything in the former building of the Ecole Nouvelle Vision, in the heart of Delmas 33, the district of Port-Au-Prince who paid the highest tribute.
For her, Christie, now the school is this thing here. The "new semi-permanenent classrooms" UNICEF calls the report "Haiti: a year after children" are the classes of the miracle that happens every day and that the organization for children of the United Nations has prepared to front of the school collapsed.
One of the 225 "temporary spaces" where children can find shelter after the collapse of the entire education system, more than 5 thousand schools, including the Ministry itself, symbolically collapsed. There were 325 children when the school was real down. There are 300 now. Christie says.
"The day of the earthquake was at home. I felt like a tractor that goes through it. I did not go to school for three months, now I'm happy to be back Here I can try to forget what happened. I like math. But grow up I want to do the pediatrician to take care of children like me. "Christie is lucky.
There are even nine latrines in the" new "Vision Nouvelle: six for girls and three boys. Few? You must be joking. In this paradise only geographically, that even before the quake lay at 149esimo place out of 162 countries in the index of development, the statements of progress are too. The rest of the world measures the basket counting the Big Mac.
There would be much more indicative count, in fact, the latrines. And not just because of the earthquake that sent the sky. Even before the great shock, only 19 percent of the population had access to sanitation, a figure down not so incredibly, given the dishonesty that ruled the island , from 29 percent in 1990.
So, in an emergency, the goal was to bring water, drinking water and recycled water in toilets, in a race that the cholera epidemic this fall has made all the more relentless . In short, the hope is also that one million seven hundred thousand of desperate achieved by UNICEF, almost one-fifth of the population, which now has water and latrines.
Sure: just under 15,300 of those 11,300 are already installed. But you know what is the relationship that the project aims to fill? One to 50: a latrine for every 50 poor people. There is little to make the squeamish. For the past year Haiti is at war but have never been alone. Children affected by the earthquake were 750 thousand.
And are the 720 000 boys and girls like Christie who receive UNICEF support for the operation "All schools" means all naturally to their 15 000 teachers. And if the 200 thousand people with cholera have an intolerable scandal is not contrary to the good news to discover that more than 11 thousand children were saved from starvation? Severe acute malnutrition call statistics, but sooner or later kills himself.
And the two million children vaccinated against six major childhood diseases, those in the West have forgotten even their names? Tuberculosis, measles, poliomyelitis, diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus .. Of course that Haiti remains a living hell. The camp of the Champ de Mars, near the National Palace, the White House in Port-au-Prince, is now a real neighborhood.
"But when René Préval will go away?" asked the newspaper Le Nouvelliste. The president would have to leave before the elections-the chaos of the end of November but remains entrenched "in the most phantasmagoric ruins of the country." Fraud and violence. The second round of presidential elections that were held this month was postponed to February.
And Préval, Haiti, when he came down he had to leave after a month, has worked for another year or so & power business. UNICEF rightly flaunting his accounts: almost $ 310 million received from donors, more than 70 percent comes from national committees, donations from all of us. But of course it's never enough: in 2011 there are at least half.
The emergency is not a ranking but the spotlight off of emotion Haiti is slowly risprofondando in violence here that corruption has always tolerated. And how do you think will survive in 1200 fields that collect a million refugees? Amnesty International says that the rapes have increased: there were 150 in the first three months of the earthquake are lots of complaints every day, today.
And now. Get the hell that is called Petionville. Before the great shock of the gorillas were private security everywhere, to protect the rich people who came to play golf from the metropolis of America, luxury hotels, swimming pools. But today the voluntary self-fields that do not make it even more to organize the patrols.
You must have the strength to Anthoy Lake, the director of Unicef, when he says "I saw them with my own eyes, the heroes and rescuers of Haiti." And you believe him when he says that "in spite of exceptional difficulties, today more and more children are reunited with their families, more children are vaccinated, more and more children return to school.
And it is proof that progress is possible, even under the worst circumstances, when working together. "He's right: all but all of them. Because there is now little to Christie who prays and lights on the Chants d'esperance, blessed her with math. But a deal has become very good as well And soon someone will have to explain where is the half of the aid never arrived.
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