Patrick Adams: Venezuela’s Renegade Aid
March 17th, 2010 -- Posted in I know | No Comments »When the Venezuelan National Armed Forces arrived in Pinchinat, Jacmel’s largest DP camp, it was Report to the United Nations. Every age for the nearby three weeks, representatives of all the medical and bas-relief groups in this metropolis of 40,000 on Haiti’s southern strand have attended assemble meetings at the UN Compound, just across the boulevard from the newly International airport, where the Canadian Forces has established its profane of operations. Organized by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), the meetings speech the various challenges associated with earthquake comfort in the southeast sector of Haiti — the entirety from shelter and sanitation to Nutrition and logistics. And to date, the “cluster System” has worked sort of well.
It has its hitches — some tribe whimper that minutes are almost never Taken and that meetings often devolve into bickering. But all in all, the organization Works; it provides all parties with intelligence about who is working what, when and where. And when one body — such as the National Armed Fores of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela — decides not to participate, it creates problems for person else. “The Venezuelans haven’t showed up at a unmarried meeting,” complained Dr. Tiffany Keenan, abort and president of Haiti Village Health, which oversees the furnish and arrangement of unsociable aid from its offices in the airport.
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