As I was getting ready to turn off the TV after watching the latest episode of LOST, I accidentally switched over to the local PBS station. Turns out Frontline was broadcasting their latest episode about drama on an island – Hispaniola – half of which makes up the country of Haiti.
The first part of the report is raw, hard-to-watch footage of amateur video during the initial earthquake and then Frontline’s crew canvassing Port-Au-Prince and the surrounding area. It is the kind of thing you watch because you need to, not necessarily because you want to. It’s the death, the suffering, the amputations, the fighting for food, for water, the failures of everybody in delivering aid in that first week. It’s the stuff we have forgotten. It reminded me why PrintsforHaiti.com was started in the first place.
As much as it is a humble reminder, the report gives some insight into what lay ahead through the rebuilding of a country, given the right tools, and taking the right kinds of risk and innovation.
Take the time to watch, you won’t be disappointed:
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