September 12, 2008 at 6:44 pm (haiti relief, reforestation)
Tags: caberet, cap haitian, gonaives, haiti, hurricane ike, kenscott, limonade, oglhaiti, operation green leaves
EcoAlert with Nadine Patrice, Operation Green Leaves internet radio show on Saturday @ 10 AM EST – www.blogtalkradio.com – will include several callers who are in Haiti, and whre there as hurricane Ike emerged from the darkness, killing men, women and children as it flooded low lying areas, washed away bridges and covered roadways with several feet of water.
Listen to EcoAlert with Nadine Patrice on Saturday at 10 AM EST – www.blogtalkradio.com/oglhaiti.
The show is produced by Ken English, the BlogTalkRadioGuy, for the Social Radio Network.
Check out www.oglhaiti.com for additional information, and to make a donation to help local organizations in rural areas of Haiti recover from this unnatural disaster. If there were trees in the mountains, there would not be severe floods in the valleys.
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September 12, 2008 at 1:14 am (haiti relief, hurricane relief, reforestation)
Tags: Haiti Hurricane relief, hurricane ike, hurricane relief, reforestation, trees
I want to offer my condolences to the families of all the Hurricane victims in Haiti. This week as the pictures of the devastation in my homeland of Haiti started to come in via E-mail, newspaper and television, I was filled with anger, desperation and a feeling of helplessness.
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Only the rooftops are visible in most of the town.
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Children navigate water that killed many of their friends.
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Low lying areas are surrounded by mountains with no vegetation.
I was really hoping that after Tropical Storm Jane 4 years ago the authorities and elected officials in Haiti would of learned something and would of taken preventive measures, and be ready to implement their hurricane preparedness plan, but instead watching these horrific pictures, In my opinion, there was no evacuation plan, no prevention plan, and most of all the population was left to fend for themselves. The conditions in which people in these affected areas were living in, in the first place is not acceptable in 2008. I have been warning the people of Haiti and global friends about these catastrophic scenarios for years because of the serious deforestation situation in Haiti. Most of the mountains of Haiti are totally dunuded, we currently have less than 1.5% for forest cover left…So these deadly flash flood are the results of these conditions. Today I am inviting members of Operation Green Leaves, all Haitian Citizens abroad and in our homeland and friends of Haiti to make a personal committment to speak up and take some action to help bring the necessary change in Haiti so the next hurricane season the deadly impact will be reduced. This Saturday on our weekly radio show “Eco Alert with Nadine”, will be dedicated to all the hurricane victims in Haiti. We will be discussing, short, long and permanet solutions to this crisis. for more info. visit: www.oglhaiti.com
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