Haiti

[Papaumau]

All I will say to that answer is that even IF there are supplies of clean water and food available in some parts of an earthquake-ravaged country/island like Haiti it is the getting of these essential items to the ones that are cut off that is the greatest initial problem after rescue and disease worries have been dealt with.

Sometimes I wonder if you are even aware of just how severly hit this island has been.

[John]

I am as aware as it is possible to be aware without being there.

You may have seen some medical, rescue teams and the like have
been pulled out.

They have performed what can be done with immediacy.

But the main stay of doing something, must now lie with the
people who live there. They are not disorganised through
communicational breakdown but lifestyle.

Law and order is not at such a low level because of what happened.
It is at a low level anyway.

Slowness in doing anything has been a balance of ensuring the
safety of those involved in any rescue or distributing supplies.