Sharing Web Resources: Part 2

On the Oxfam website, they issued an article about Haiti’s current poverty condition called Haiti Livelihoods Program.  This article is about the horrible condition Haiti is currently under, and how the government has completely neglected their people and their country.  Haiti has some of the highest rates of inequality and food-insecurity of any country in the world. The government has completely shunned, ostracized them by excluding them from basic social services, education, and health facilities, in addition to, the long-lasting effects of natural disasters.  There are 1.6 million residents in a cycle of poverty in the rural of Artibonite Valley. Only 6% of the population is not affected by hunger, while 43% are facing food hunger.

Things do not have to be this way, Haiti has a fruitful valley known as “Haiti’s Breadbasket” “with extensive river systems and irrigation networks giving the region significant potential for agricultural development”. The valley has great capability to produce 80% of the country’s rice and other crops.  Oxfam and other local organizations are all working to help the Haitians population who are suffering from poverty. They are providing programs that will improve systems for agricultural production, processing, and marketing, transforming the larger environments and lessen vulnerabilities through their DRR(disaster risk reduction) program.   

The Oxfam website brought light to a subject, that the media has not covered in a while, not only the devastating conditions the Haitian are currently under, they also are lending a helping hand in Puerto Rico, there are still thousands of people without electricity and clean running water after the effects of Hurricane Maria. In addition to the organization providing their services around the globe by reducing the effects of poverty, they also advocate for gender justice, food, agriculture and livelihoods, climate change and active citizens and accountability for the states and so much more, which all interrelates with how economists, neuroscientists, or politicians support the early childhood field.

Reference

(“Haiti Livelihoods Program | Oxfam America,” n.d.)

Haiti Livelihoods Program | Oxfam America. (n.d.). Retrieved March 23, 2018, from https://policy-practice.oxfamamerica.org/work/in-action/haiti-livelihoods-program/