By Paul Farmer
“The book's maximum energy lies in its depiction of the post-quake chaos… within the book's extra analytical sections the author's prognosis of the problems of reconstruction is sharp.” —Economist
“A gripping, profoundly relocating booklet, an pressing dispatch from front via considered one of our most interesting warriors for social justice.” —Adam Hochschild
“His sincere evaluation of what the folks attempting to aid Haiti did well—and the place they failed—is very important for someone who cares concerning the kingdom or foreign relief in general.” —Miami Herald
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Even an earthquake is not only a “natural” disaster, just as the destructiveness of Hurricane Katrina and the storms that struck Haiti in 2004 and 2008 were influenced by many factors besides weather. These events reveal the social roots of disaster. 1 It’s an undisputed fact that, even before the quake, Haiti, Latin America’s first independent nation, was plagued by political, economic, and ecological fragilities. Part of this book’s project is to examine how Haiti and its institutions became so weak: to lay out the history of the chronic ailment.
I’d visited Rwanda before and admired its governance, born of horrible circumstances and still subject, at the time, to legitimate critique and negative propaganda (some of which came from France, some from surviving architects of the 1994 genocide, but also some from more credible voices in human rights circles). In the fall of 2004, we made a long-term commitment to begin a comprehensive rural health initiative in Rwanda. From 2005 on, we continued to expand our work in the public hospitals across central Haiti, while some of us, including leadership from our Haiti team and Harvard Brigham colleagues, began setting up shop in southeastern Rwanda.
Mario Pagenel, who had helped launch our efforts in Boucan Carré. Also pleased were all those who’d been stranded on the wrong side of the river when they needed the care we could offer in other, larger facilities.