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Many people are now aware of the role Aid/charities play in undermining the sovereignty of developing nations. These Charities do much more harm than good. Capitalist Aid is not “humanitarian” it works for the best interests of the capitalists, Aid exploit people’s poverty rather than reduce it.

For example there are over ten thousand (10,000) NGOs/charities in Haiti yet since the earthquake most of the people affected are still living in squalor. The Red Cross raised $500 million dollars, CARE raised $50 million yet they have spent only a tiny fraction of the money they received, in the face of overwhelming deprivation. Most of the money was raised in the form of a Trust Fund to be managed by the World Bank. The Haitian government has not been allowed to make decisions on how and what to spend money on.

These NGO/Charities are mainly right wing evangelical religious groups, which have a blatantly reactionary agenda. They are divisive and with the possible exception of ‘Partners In Health’ (PIH.org) these charities undermine the state, demobilize the people politically and are anti popular political mobilization.

Christian Aid for e.g. deliberately promoted and supported the coup in 2004.

Due to the prevailing neo-liberal agenda, the reconstruction effort has been to shift investment into private sector sweatshop development. (See The Sweat Shop hoax by David Wilson)

Large amounts of free food is dumped in Haiti, mainly when Haitian domestic production is strong,

This is done deliberately to undermine Haitian agriculture, because Haiti could be self sufficient in food, if not for the vastly subsidized US rice dumped there. (See Tim Swartz –Travesty In Haiti)

Certain indigenous groups, which are promoted as “Trade Union” organisations, are actually funded by the US state department. Well meaning ordinary people give generous donations to relieve suffering, but the organisations charged with delivering this relief  have their own agenda and are subverting the government and are definitely not helping the needy.

HAITI - CHOLERA IN AUGUST 2011

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The Meille river next to the UN/MINUSTAH base. The troops at this base dumped their raw, disease-infected fecal matter in contravention of international health regulations - August 11, 2011

Photo credit: Dominique Esser, HLLN

Zili Dlo-Cholera at Mirebalais, Haiti

The infected Meille River, August 11, 2011.

The Meille River in Mirebalais Cholera Center - UN and its Haiti envoys have failed to do any environmental clean-up of their poisoning of Haiti's waterways. As UN apologist, the "heroic" and godly "good doctor," Paul Farmer, has publicly asserted "cholera was something waiting to happen to Haiti." This river was the first of Haiti's waterways to be contaminated by UN imported cholera. The Meille River flows directly into Haiti's largest river and breadbasket area of the Artibonite. As of August 11, 2011 photos taken by HLLN delegates show area citizens still bathing in the affected river in full view of the UN base. The well next to the river which provides drinking water for area citizens who can't afford privatized bottled water, is infected with cholera. Area resident said the international community occupying Haiti provided some free aquatab tablets and chlorine for water treatment in the months immediately following the October 2010 cholera outbreak and then soon stopped. They note the cholera centers and purchasing foreign-made body bags for the dead put in mass graves, make the international community, USAID and the "good NGOs" more monies than prevention, water purification and environmental cleanup.
Photo credit: Kesler Pierre, HLLN

Zili Dlo-Cholera at Mirebalais, Haiti

Tented cholera center outside in Mirebalais hospital yard - August 11, 2011.

Photo credit: Kesler Pierre, HLLN

Zili Dlo-Cholera at Mirebalais, Haiti

Mirebalais Cholera center - August 11, 2011.

(Photo credit: Jean Ristil Jean Baptise.)

Zili Dlo-Cholera at Mirebalais, Haiti

Zili Dlo-Cholera at Mirebalais, Haiti

Moved to tears.

Brother Patrick Muhammad, HLLN's Kesler Pierre
Mirebalais Cholera Center, August 11, 2011

Photo credit:
Jean Ristil Jean Baptiste of HLLN and Fondasyon Kolezepòl Pou Sove Ti Moun

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