240 Desperately Hungry Haitians Eating Grass to quell their Hunger

240 Haitians living in Caves

On Wednesday March 22nd, 2017 members of the South Florida based charity Food for the Poor discovered 240 Haitians living in Caves. This number includes 84
women and 62 children. Every day, the number of deaths from starvation in these cavernous camps range from 10 to 30 corpses.
It has been 6 months since Hurricane Matthew roared 145 miles per hour winds at the Haitian people in southwest Haiti. The community of Beaumont and Jeremie were hit the hardest forcing the destitute people to take up residence in caves near Fond Rouge Dahere. The people are hungry. They have nothing. Families in the caves are desperately turning to wild foliage as a source of food in an attempt to quell their hunger but some of these foliage are poisonous, killing the people quickly.

Where Does the Aid Money Go?

The Losses of Crops, Livestock and Infrastructure to Hurricane Matthew which left a path of devastation to the southwestern city of Les Cayes and its rural town is in proximity of 2.9 Billion US dollars. The immediate needs for people suffering in Haiti from the hurricane is 53.5 million US dollars.

"I was in Haiti last month. In Beaumont where Hurricane Matthew hit. The Government received 50 containers of food weekly to distribute to the poor." said Marie Damour Etzer, a Haitian Diaspora, "Every one of the 50 containers were sold to Supermarkets. These foods were then sold to the poor."

The American Red Cross gave half a billion dollars ($500,000,000) to help Haiti after the 2010 Earthquake. Besides the Cholera infected water that were distributed killing almost 60 000 needy Haitian people, the Red Cross only built 6 homes. To have a home built one must prove that he owns the land. If a family have no record or title deed of the land , then the Red Cross will not build a home on presumably squatted territory. Each of these homes only cost 3600 US Dollars.

The half billion dollars donated to the Haitian people were mismanaged in the worst way. The Charity organizations hired high salaried Americans to work in Haiti. Millions of that money were used to fuel planes and ships that were sent out. Agencies who were sent to Haiti to help also employed their highly paid workers to do reconstruction jobs, jobs that could have been done by Haitians for a lot less as they desperately needed the employment and the income. Today, the Haitians are quietly suffering as they die out in Caves.