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find Haiti in the list of the 20 poorest countries all over the world. The
battle for daily survival influences the everyday life of about 80 % of
the population. |
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| Economic
conditions are catastrophic, capital is concentrated in the hands of a few
people. Poor infrastructure with really broken roads makes the transport
of goods to a permanent problem. Unreliable power supply – often only a
few hours a day – lets every industrial production get stuck from the
beginning. The only worth mentioning bringer of foreign exchange comes
from the transfers of the nearly one million Haitians, who live abroad, to
their families. |
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The
agriculture is not able to nourish the people. 80 % of the needed food has
to be imported.
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lack of water the small subsistence-peasants are impeded in their work in
the fields, if they can`t afford a well and irrigation facilities.
Migration to town is the result; many of them find their miserable place
in the continously expanding slum of Port-au-Prince. The former rural
structures of extended families, which are similar to small communities,
where everybody helps the others, vanish more and more. Misery, poverty,
going hungry and having hopes of a better life in town are the reasons. |
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| Another problem is the insufficient medical supply, above all in the country. |
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The lack of clean drinking water and malnutrition, in the cities also drugs ( Haiti is the trading centre for drugs on their way from Columbia to the USA), prostitution and AIDS, lead to more problems. |
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The traditional knowledge of healing, plants medicine, is on the way to go
lost. This will be unfortunate specially for the rural population because
of the lack of medical assistance. The
insufficient or missing education contributes to missing prospects of the
poor population. School fees, money for the school uniforms and books,
etc. is absent in many families.
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