On the afternoon of January 12,2010, a devastating 7.0 earthquake shook the island nation of Haiti. In less than a minute,the violent tremors leveled an estimated 25,000 government and commercial buildings,more than 100,000 homes and killed approximately 230,000 people.
When the earth stopped quaking.more than 1.5 million people were left living in makeshift tent camps."In 30 seconds,Haiti lost 60 percent of its GDP,"said Haitian prime minister Jean-Max Bellerive.For a country whose history was plagued with natural disasters,corrupt leaders,and abject poverty,it must have seemed like the exclamation point on some sort of cruel natural joke.
The international charitable response from groups like the Salvation Army and the Red cross was generous as mullions of people around the world wrote checks or donated via their cell phones.Foreign governments committed funds too.
From "Clinton Cash" by peter Schweitzer ( Excerpt 1)
When the earth stopped quaking.more than 1.5 million people were left living in makeshift tent camps."In 30 seconds,Haiti lost 60 percent of its GDP,"said Haitian prime minister Jean-Max Bellerive.For a country whose history was plagued with natural disasters,corrupt leaders,and abject poverty,it must have seemed like the exclamation point on some sort of cruel natural joke.
The international charitable response from groups like the Salvation Army and the Red cross was generous as mullions of people around the world wrote checks or donated via their cell phones.Foreign governments committed funds too.
From "Clinton Cash" by peter Schweitzer ( Excerpt 1)