Haiti

BBC article on what is going on in Haiti:

the AP article on the hunger and anarchy in Haiti.

some 1.4 million Haitians are on the verge of famine, and more than 4 million require food aid, sometimes eating only once a day or nothing at all, aid groups say. Expand article logo Continue reading “Haiti is facing a protractive and mass hunger,” Jean-Martin Bauer, Haiti director for the United Nation’s World Food Program, told The Associated Press. He noted that Croix-des-Bouquets, in the eastern part of Haiti’s capital, “has malnutrition rates comparable with any war zone in the world.”

This is a long analysis of Haiti: and he is very blunt about the problem.

Fetal and neonatal malnutrition is the cause of the low IQ. I saw this a lot in Liberia, and in the US, immigrants from Ireland and Poland in the past had the same problem for the same reason.
A lot of the analysis is very hard line, but alas it is true.

Just throwing in money just makes the corrupt rich. Something to remember when you read about the UN planning to send money to poor countries because of global warming. 

this 2019 article from the UK Guardian gives an analysis of the failure of aid before and after the earthquake ten years earlier.

No, I have never been in Haiti, but our church in Pennsylvania had a sister church there. And I know doctors who worked in clinics there. 

But although this is very bad, there are dozens of countries that have slightly less problems, and yes I have worked in some of those countries.