Corruption In Haiti Essay

In 2010 Haiti suffered from a 7.0 magnitude, leaving 2 million people homeless. After this tragedy Haiti received a great amount of personnel and foreign aid from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Health Organization (WHO), and citizens all over the world. Six years later, there are still hundreds of tent camps filled with people, and thousands of people are still outside the half built, half destroyed, Port-au-Prince palace. The people live in front of the nation's capital are jobless and helpless, there is no clean water besides the water NGOs are bringing in, no electricity, and they rely on the NGOs bringing them their next meals. Haiti is still suffering from the natural disaster that happened six years ago, but a lot more more should have been done.
Corruption is present in all all governments but it never was a detrimental deciding factor of whether a country succeeds or not. Foreign aid should be directed towards the government more than the NGOs, so that the government can spend it accordingly since they know more about the country then the countries coming in and attempting to assist. For example “Attendees pledged $479 million. But only a third of that amount was delivered [...] attendees often over promised and under delivered” (Katz 130). “Haitians were also under misapprehension that aid money went to Haitian government. If money were not pledged but not delivered, they assumed their leaders had stolen it.” (Katz 130). Government is misperceived because of the failures of countries delivering the promised aid and this is so common all governments are suffering from this. Corruption can be overwhelmed if the foreign aid goes to governments so that they can invest in the public sectors like ethics where they will have enough money to fund the judges, police, medical staff, and the tax collectors (Moyo