The Help That Haiti Needs

 

January 14, 2010, 10:15 AM

The Help That Haiti Needs

By THE EDITORS / The New York Times

Juan Barreto/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesPort-au-Prince on Wednesday, a day after a powerful 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck Haiti.

International aid groups estimate that 3 million Haitians have been affected by the earthquake, with the death toll expected in the tens of thousands. On Thursday, medical supplies, food and workers trickled in from governments and aid agencies around the world, but even search and rescue work has been slowed by the wreckage of buildings, roads and utilities.

Apart from emergency relief, what kinds of aid should be sent and how? How might foreign groups, including the United Nations, ensure that aid reaches the people given Haiti's crumbling infrastructure and long history of political instability?

• Robert Fatton Jr., University of Virginia
• Robert Maguire, U.S. Institute of Peace
• Amy Wilentz, author, "Rainy Season: Haiti Since Duvalier,"
• Paul McPhun, Doctors Without Borders
• J. Michael Dash, author, "Haiti and the United States"
• Daniel Wolff, co-producer, "The Agronomist"

Peace.

Michael Santomauro
Editorial Director
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