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By: Choosing organizations to donate to after the Haiti earthquake | Good Intentions Are Not Enough Choosing organizations to donate to after the Haiti earthquake | An honest conversation about the impact of aid

Sat, 02 Oct 2010 02:31:14 +0000

[...] On not caring about Haiti – humanitarian.info looks at the greater tragedy of only helping after disaster strikes instead of when it was needed before [...]

By: Good Intentions Are Not Enough » Blog Archive » Choosing organizations to donate to after the Haiti earthquake

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 00:50:12 +0000

[...] The challenge of reverse logistics in global health – A Humourless Lot – looks at the problems that arise when too much is sent or things have to be sent back [...]

By: Good Intentions Are Not Enough » Blog Archive » Posts and articles written by aid workers related to the Haiti relief efforts

Mon, 28 Jun 2010 16:20:56 +0000

[...] On not caring about Haiti – Humanitarian.info – Laments that there was not this type of support to help them with their endemic problems before the quake [...]

By: humanitarian.info

humanitarian.info — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 12:46:56 +0000

[...] I said before, I’ll say again: My thoughts go out to the people of Haiti; first suffering the earthquake, [...]

By: Paul Currion

Paul Currion — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 13:57:15 +0000

From tracking the news and talking to people working in the response, it looks like none of the three points will be addressed. I can’t say that I’m surprised, and on top of that public interest will drop off sharply after this first month.

By: Sanjana Hattotuwa

Sanjana Hattotuwa — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:38:54 +0000

Coming back to this after reading some of the onanistic posts on how technology helped in relief work by academics turned evangelists was sobering. Your three key points are vital, but as you probably know and I fear, will be largely ignored.

By: PDGOODMAN.COM

PDGOODMAN.COM — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 12:31:17 +0000

[...] Currion On Not Caring About Haiti, or why this crisis should be considered in the larger context of the [...]

By: Roving Bandit

Roving Bandit — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 14:22:00 +0000

“first suffering the earthquake, and now the international community.”

Ouch.

By: Garukim

Garukim — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 12:19:20 +0000

Very good point. Working in a charity sector, I feel ashamed to admit the reality…

By: On Haiti « Aid Thoughts

On Haiti « Aid Thoughts — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 11:00:17 +0000

[...] those more concerned with the medium-to-long term, Paul Currion writes about the tendency for the international community to only act during overt crises: Nobody can deny that Haiti needs assistance right now to save lives, but it also needed assistance [...]