Tim DeTellis

How do you save lives? You reach the sick before it is too late. In essence, you bring a cure. That is what Haiti is crying for: a cure.

Right now, people from Port-au-Prince are being re-located across the countryside due to the greater collapse of infrastructure in Haiti’s capital city. A temporary solution is moving people out to a somewhere that is not their home. Now they must start over. The little they had before, is now nothing. Sad. What is a better cure? Have more established areas across Haiti as points of entry vs just Port-au-Prince. In essence, Haiti needs regions of established ports of commerece.

Here are three ideas:
1. Add two more international airports, one in the North at Cap-Haitian and one in the South at Ti Goave.
2. Add several municiple airports for travel around the country like to destinations: Jacmel, Jeremie, and La Gonave.
3. Bring a mobility system that Haitians can afford: railroad. A rail system will provide the transportation of resources and supplies all across Haiti efficently. For the purpose of moving people, it delivers reliability and affordability.

What cure will change Haiti? I hope these three ideas will foster discussion on delivering a cure for building a new Haiti. What cure do you think will help?