Desperate Need for Housing

The latest news articles are now showing the death toll from the Cholera outbreak has now grown to over 800 with the total number of people infected at between 11,000 and 12,000. Approximately 200 cases have now been recorded in Cite Sole which is an extremely poor area between the airport and Carrefour.

With more than 1.2 million people still living in tent cities, the conditions are ideal for the continued rapid spread of the disease. It is difficult for me to understand why only approximately one fourth of the over $5 BILLION dollars raised for the rebuilding of Haiti has actually made it there to date! It seems to me $3.75 BILLION would build a significant amount of housing to get the people out of the conditions they are currently living in.

Most of the organizations which were building transitional housing have greatly reduced or stopped in anticipation of a mandated shift to permanent housing construction which was to have began in January, 2011. However, the meeting between the Haitian government and several other governments & relief organizations to discuss housing requirements has been postponed numerous times. The meeting is now slated for next March!

Please pray these funds will be released and suffering peoples need for shelter will be met quickly.

John Rodgers