Haiti's Latest Hardship: Relentless Rain

Post by: CNN's Moni Basu
May 4th, 2010
02:56 PM ET

Our story start on May 4, 2010, in Haiti. The central plaza in Port-au-Prince is now home to over a thousand displaced Haitians. Yesterday, water was pouring all through day and night. At the Champs de Mars,people tried to close all possible entrances from the rain, but to no avail. The only good thing from the rain was that sun-scorched children could finally escape the heat with the rain. Aid workers say that the never-stopping rain could overflow garbage canals, which would help the smell at all. Many Haitians are used to the rain. It comes in May, and then the rain starts to come for a several months. There also is a risk of a hurricane coming into the land devastated by the earthquake in January. Officials estimated that 2 million Haitians lost their homes can more than 1,300 are living in makeshift camps. For many, a tent is a good place to be in an earthquake but not in a hurricane or the heavy rain. There are almost 50,000 peoples are camped on the nine-hole Petionville Golf Club, but when it rains, it turns into a huge mud slide. The major worry for now is that the unsanitary conditions could cause malaria, cholera and dengue fever outbreaks all throughout the camps. Now, more than 2 million people are sleeping in tents.

Our opinion is that this piece of news is very shocking, because it can show us how much pain the Haitians are going through. We also believe that this could be helped more if more people were to go to Haiti to help Haitians go through all these problems. We think that all the countries in the world help Haiti, then it will be done in no time. So, don't forget, help another, to help yourself.