Haiti: going forward
Jan. 25th, 2010 01:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
icarusAs we write our Help Haiti fics (the Merlin "Babies in jars" prompt is going along nicely) a few thoughts on the how of aid to Haiti.
Brookings article points out that apparently Haiti's governmental agencies weren't in good shape to start.
Granted, the Brookings Institute is probably more centrist than I am. But the point that we should funnel aid through community leaders rather than Haiti's weak-to-nonexistent (and frequently corrupt) government agencies is well taken.
After all, Haiti's president hid under a bucket after the quake.
Brookings article points out that apparently Haiti's governmental agencies weren't in good shape to start.
Granted, the Brookings Institute is probably more centrist than I am. But the point that we should funnel aid through community leaders rather than Haiti's weak-to-nonexistent (and frequently corrupt) government agencies is well taken.
After all, Haiti's president hid under a bucket after the quake.
