2010 TIMES MOST INFLUENCIAL PEOPLE

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silv:- Although he lived in serious poverty, he managed to become president of Brazil. Perhaps it was his rough past that compelled him to make a great new plan for the population of Brazil, which includes proper healthcare, nutrition and education.

Christine Lagarde:- Most talented minister of finance. Uses her talents to create a greater European and global independence.

Bill Clinton:- Besides being a US president, he has greatly helped Haiti and struggling African countries overcome their hardships.

Barrack Obama:- As president, Obama signed economic stimulus legislation in the form of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act in February 2009. On October 8, 2009, Obama was named the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize laureate. In March 2010, Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law, bringing about comprehensive health care reform. I think he is the most influencial man in the world 2010.

Mir-Hossein Mousavi:- Through his leadership, he brings hope and democracy to Iran.

Ron Bloom:- Saved thousands of jobless people and various companies that were about to be bankrupt, by making important and clever deals.

Salam Fayyad:- He is a prime minister that has an impact of safety and security in Palestine. He has made more jobs, a safer environment and better salaries for the struggling Palestinian people.

Graça Machel:- Machel did alot of humanitqarian work and worked on behalf of the refugee children.
Sheik Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahyan:- President of the United Arab Emirates, Sheik has cultivated his country’s resources and wealth, setting it up for success.

General Stanley McChrystal:- Worked on sparing innocent people’s lives as a military officer.

HAITI AFTER EARTHQUAKE

The UN World Food Program has warned that although the relief agency is gaining footing in Haiti, feeding over 2 million a day is the hardest task faced. All efforts to buy from local farmers and stores have been hampered due to effects of the earthquake. The WFP has used almost all its nutrient meals that don’t require water and are now distributing staple foods once cooking utensils and clean water are established.

There is an acute shortage of drinking water in areas affected by the earthquake. The water supply system, which before the disaster only provided 40% of the population of Port-au-Prince with clean water, has collapsed. Aid agencies are shipping in many bottles of water and distributing water purification tablets but many people claim to receive none or little. This should last 2 months with longer term services for rebuilt homes and new settlements.

The main challenges are post-operative care and logistical support to the health facilities in terms of fuel and medical supplies. Haiti's ministry of health and the World Health Organization (WHO) is revising its emergency response strategy and will gradually shift the focus from emergency surgical cases to primary health care. Amputations is one of the most common needs as a result of injuries. Doctors fear many amputees will languish or even die without proper rehabilitation. WHO says that as the emergency phase of the disaster winds down there would be need for mobile and community based clinics providing services as maternity care, post-operative care, and treatment for chronic health problems including diabetes, heart disease, HIV, and tuberculosis. Forty-three of the 59 hospitals, are now functioning, but they are having difficulty meeting the demand for health services, especially as the emergency medical personnel who arrived after the earthquake head home.
Also important is establishing surveillance networks to detect outbreaks of communicable diseases.

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) says work is under way to improve living conditions for the Haitians in make-shift until better solutions are found. The Haitian government is offering free transportation to 235,000 to cities in the north and south-west. Although the IOM had 10,000 tents stored in Haiti before the earthquake and has a further 30,000 abroad that will arrive soon, it says "the supply is unlikely to be enough. About 100,000 family-sized tents are needed to house about 500,000 people, but up to one million require shelter. Meanwhile, construction work by the Haitian government has begun for the establishment of organized tented settlements each accommodating up to 10,000 people. However, tents cannot accommodate people until they have water and sanitation facilities.
Tent settlements can only provide temporal shelters, particularly with the hurricane season expected to start around June.

Haiti will need a lot of money to rebuild the houses collapsed.
Many of the buildings that collapsed were poorly designed and built. There is a clear for higher technical standards to be used during reconstruction. The Haitian government with many other architectural experts have planned a new strategy for rebuilding for the future. This includes reducin the population and replacing slums with affordable homes.
While the main airport in Port-au-Prince was not put out of action by the disaster, it was equipped to receive the amount of relief flights in and out of the country.The US military took over control of the airport and 160 planes a day are currently able to land. Aid flights are also coming into and out of the Dominican Republic and several other regional airports in Haiti. The main port in Port-au-Prince has been damaged and the road transportation is hampered by piles of rubble and many people trying to move out of the capital. The internet and telephone service where down for some time. The situation is improved and the internet service and phone capacity restored. Large-scale capital investment, will be needed to bring the road, electricity, water and telephone systems up to standard, and rebuild Port-au-Prince's seaport and airport.

There has been concern about the security situation in Haiti, with fears that people not receiving aid would turn to violence. In a bid to boost security the UN Security Council is increasing the UN stabilization mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) by 3,500 troops to 12,651.
The EU is also deploying 150 officers of its new European Gendarmerie Force to assist the 3,500-strong UN police force, UNPOL, and the Haitian Police Force (HNP), which has, so far, managed to get half of its 8,000 officers back on the streets.

The UN Development Program is planning to employ 220,000 Haitians to work on debris and restoring infrastructure. This is to enable them support themselves.
Creating over 150,000 jobs over two years by using their advantage in clothing manufacturing, tourism, and agriculture has been along term UN strategy.
International investors had launched a number of big projects before the earthquake and will be encouraged to stay. Economists Paul Collier and Jean-Louis Warnholz, want to relocate economic activities from Port-au-Prince and develop secondary cities.

The UN believes that it is very important to repair any damage to agricultural infrastructure.
The FAO plans to give support to farmers before the major season that brings most of the production. They also hope to develop strategies that will help them become self sufficient as they mostly depend on imports yet 80 percent of the population is involved in agriculture.

Some nations at the donor conference in Montreal want the Haitian government to lead reconstruction effort. Mr. Preval elected in 2006 has initiated police and judiciary reforms. His government was also able to forge a national consensus on a recovery plan following the devastating hurricanes of 2008. The death of government workers and destruction of ministries has made the government almost lose control of the situation.

Conditions in Haiti before the earth Quake

Haiti’s poor conditions led to the violation of most of the child rights to health care and sanitation, free primary education, nationality, proper care, and lots more. In 2006, the child mortality rate in Haiti was very high. Some of the causes being that most of the children weren’t given the basic immunizations, few and distant healthcare centers, and poverty. 25 % of the children were malnourished, 5,000 babies were born with HIV and only 300 were given proper care. Lack of proper sewage system and clean water were very prominent. Distance, poverty, violence, overcrowding, poor management, lack of resources and infrequently paid salaries for Haitian teachers also is adding to high level of illiteracy. Many Haitian children aren’t born in hospitals therefore aren’t legally registered and don’t have the rights to essential services. Many girls are forced to work (as restaveks) away from their families because, prospective employers visit their parents and promise to take care of them, but mostly don’t. Many children are trafficked to the Dominican Republic to do illegal jobs. Due to this, many street children are being forced into gangs and some prostitution. The new government of Mr. Preval presents hope for the nation.

In Sauri, one of the 80 millennium villages across Africa Agricultural yields have dropped, school ranking increased, cell phone ownership increased. There has been a positive attitude change. He proved that through simple technology based programs can lift people out of poverty. Malaria has been a killer disease but within minutes a health worker pricked a child and got instant treatment.For this Sachs is praised. While others praise him some believe he is not considering barriers like bad governance and terrorism.

POVERTY

Poverty as defined by the world bank is having unsatisfied human needs. Information on the definition of poverty was collected from 73 different countries and people came up with different definitions. It was important to collect the definitions to know what different problems they have and how it can be solved. A recent statistics shows that the new poverty line set by the world bank is $1.25 per day. People living under this poverty line have reduced from 1.9 million people to 1.4 million since 1981 till today. However some people are more than just poor but they are extremely poor as their poverty is accompanied with a downgrading sense of powerlessness. The most common problems of poor countries were over population, climate change,few doctors,and under nourishment. Undernourishment and few doctors is cause by lack of education and poverty. In this poor countries 13,500 people are infected with AIDS daily, 22000 people die from poverty and preventable diseases, 13000 go to bed hungry, and malaria is responsible for death of kids. The WHO helped them by reducing the price of mosquito treated nets to $7. Sachs believes that there is a solution to the problems if we focus on saving the poor. He believes that it is possible to pull them out of the poverty that seems impossible to come out of known as the poverty trap. He discovered that some of the common problems are focused in Africa. He thinks that these problems can be tackled by voluntary reduction of child birth, medical help, connectivity to the rest of the world, better agric tools, good seeds. The world bank is an international bank for reconstruction and development. It is a UN agency assisting developing countries with funds put in by richer member countries. It is an agency that creates an opportunity for richer countries to assist poor countries around the world. The UNICEF is also trying to help out with the poverty in the countries.

Rights of the Child

Rights of the Child