Re: Haiti and Unemployed Americans:
Just wondering if we could use the Government Stimulus to take unemployed Americans to Haiti to rebuild the country?
We have the knowledge, engineers, construction workers, etc that could go there and build basic services: roads, sewers, water treatment, hospitals, schools, multi-use buildings that are hurricane and earthquake resistant.
Let the NGO’s, Habitat for Humanity, mission groups, etc rebuild homes, churches, shops, etc.
The idea would be to keep everything simple and plain. Build the road with sewer lines, underground electrical, and water along the road. Build hospitals and multi-purpose buildings to server as many as possible after the priority of rescue and recovery.
Unemployed American’s working for a fair wage, non-taxable in a non-profit setting. Make 2010 the year of “Do,” “There is no do not!”
They need help and we need work a win – win situation to help rebuild a country!
Thank you for listening and I hope you can find a way to take this forward in some form.
Sincerely,
Just wondering if we could use the Government Stimulus to take unemployed Americans to Haiti to rebuild the country?
We have the knowledge, engineers, construction workers, etc that could go there and build basic services: roads, sewers, water treatment, hospitals, schools, multi-use buildings that are hurricane and earthquake resistant.
Let the NGO’s, Habitat for Humanity, mission groups, etc rebuild homes, churches, shops, etc.
The idea would be to keep everything simple and plain. Build the road with sewer lines, underground electrical, and water along the road. Build hospitals and multi-purpose buildings to server as many as possible after the priority of rescue and recovery.
Unemployed American’s working for a fair wage, non-taxable in a non-profit setting. Make 2010 the year of “Do,” “There is no do not!”
They need help and we need work a win – win situation to help rebuild a country!
Thank you for listening and I hope you can find a way to take this forward in some form.
Sincerely,
Jeff
If the people in Haiti could learn new skills it would be good too.
ReplyDeleteI agree, we could teach them how to build the side roads, homes, shops, etc. One of the big problems is corruption. So we should talk with Haiti's government and designate areas for our teams to control and then turn them over to the U.N. and Haiti when we leave.
ReplyDeleteOne thing that bothered me was people just standing around...they could have been cleaning off the streets, removing rubble, something!
On their behalf, many were in shock and needed leadership to rally the masses, something else that is missing.