Hunger and indifference: a portrait of Haiti, ten years after the earthquake

the ROME – Ten years. So much has passed from the quake of magnitude 7 that in just a few seconds razed to the ground in Haiti. The entire country, already among the poorest in the world, was put on the knee. An utter devastation so much so that it took several months before to get an estimate indicative of the dead: 220 thousand. More than a million displaced persons.

Who was . From the first moments of that terrible January 12, 2010, the ngos present in the country of the border kicked into action to bring relief. A chain of solidarity that led to the area dozens of time signature of the Third sector, to attract the attention on the emergency. Funds, facilities. All the apparatus-emergency active, to help those who had survived and try to reconstruct those facilities, already crumbling before the earthquake, but that after the tragedy had been shattered.

A decade has passed, the focus shifted elsewhere. And those who remained witnessed the repercussions due to the economic crisis, to the social differences, the extreme poverty faced by the majority of the population. "It is necessary - says Fiammetta Cappellini, project manager for Avsi and from 13 years in Haiti - the international community and donors not to abandon Haiti. This is a crucial time for the island: we are experiencing a severe economic collapse, social degradation and corruption scandals. The population is exhausted, the people begin really to not have more to eat.”