Since we touched on how children were impacted by the earthquakes devastation, I posted a few images by children in Haiti.

The big truck that went by:  how the world came to save Haiti and left behind a disaster, By Jonathan Katz. 

What an emotionally charged subject and area.  I like and see the culmination of everything we’ve been studying in class and how it seems bundled up and headed towards this work. This works U.S. intention issues relates to what we’ve been looking at in another class as well, in that there are many scales that need to be looked at, and equally many policies that have to be addressed from both sides, not just the ones that are going to benefit the United States the most.  America has to turn on (as the teachers say in elementary school) our LISTENING EARS!  I think that it is ironic that we consider ourselves the paternalistic one, when many outside our country view us like a spoiled child.  Not that we are not giving, because we are, and generously.  We can reassess our approach, and ask ourselves are we going to help or hinder? The question we can ask is, how can we help?

Just a note on misguided intentions, the women arrested for trying to take Haitian children over the border into the DR were dealing with and taking legal advise from a man who is “identified as Jorge Torres-Puello, is linked to a network that trafficked in Haitian and Central American children and is wanted in the United States, El Salvador and Costa Rica, the National Drug Control Agency said.” http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/03/19/haiti.baptists.adviser/