Helping Haiti: The Need Is Still Great

I have previously written about the outstanding response of the commercial airline industry and organizations like Airline Ambassadors to the enormous slate of human needs that is Haiti after its magnitude-7 earthquake two months ago.

Although most of the media attention has drifted away from Haiti over the past month, as new quakes have occurred in both Chile and Turkey, the situation in Haiti remains dire even by third world standards:

•  The death toll will top 300,000; 1.3 million people remain homeless and half of these are without shelter of any kind; sanitation and safe water supplies are critical needs everywhere.
•  Haitian children are some of the quake’s most tragic victims: Hundreds of thousands of kids have been killed, injured, orphaned, separated from their families, or left without roofs over their heads or schools to attend.
•  The 2010 Atlantic hurricane season commences in June, and is sure to wreak further havoc upon an already wretched situation.

Airline people are the salt of the earth for being among the first to say “Let’s get on the plane; let’s go; let’s help.” Please, if you have a moment, look at the photos and read the first-person account of a medical first responder.