"The horrors of Haiti’s earthquake continue to unfold. The quake itself
killed perhaps 100,000 people. The inability to organise rapid relief is killing tens
of thousands more. More than 1mn people are exposed to hunger and disease
and, with the rain and hurricane seasons approaching, are vulnerable to
further hazards.
Even an economy as impoverished as Haiti’s is a complex system dependent
on trade between rural and urban areas, transport, electricity, port services,
and government functions. Haiti’s economy worked badly in the past, and was
still reeling from four hurricanes in 2008 when the earthquake struck.
The fact that the quake hit the capital and demolished every centre of
social activity, destroyed the systems upon which daily urban life depends. Millions
of people are now without livelihoods and the means for survival.
The first stage in an effective response, the first three or four weeks, must focus on rescuing survivors and stabilising supplies of food, water, medical services, and shelter for the population. Neither Haiti nor the world was properly equipped for this, and tens of thousands will die needlessly. The world’s emergency-response systems – especially for impoverished countries in zones that are vulnerable to earthquakes, volcanoes, droughts, hurricanes, and floods – needs upgrading.
After just a month or so, the emergency phase will give way to a decades-long struggle for recovery and long-term development. Haiti must avoid a prolonged period of tent cities in which people are mere refugees. But where should displaced people – numbering hundreds of thousands, and perhaps more than a million – live? How should they be provided with food, water, health care, and shelter? And how can they begin to contribute to the revival of basic economic life?
The economy will have a simple structure in the coming years, with most economic activities focused in five sectors: smallholder, or peasant, agriculture; reconstruction; port services and light manufacturing; local small-scale trade; and public services, including healthcare and education. The key challenge is to support these five sectors in order to combine short-term relief with long-term reconstruction and development.
First, special efforts should be made to boost peasant agriculture and rural communities. This will enable hundreds of thousands of displaced people to return to their village communities and live from farming. With fertiliser, improved seeds, small-scale irrigation, rapid training and extension services, and low-cost storage silos, Haiti’s food production could double or triple in the next few years, sustaining the country and building a new rural economy.
Reconstruction – of roads, buildings, and water and sanitation systems – will employ tens of thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands, of Haitian construction workers, and boost the regeneration of towns. The World Food Programme can help peasant farmers to produce more food in the countryside and then purchase the food to use in food-for-work programs oriented to construction projects.
Haiti’s infrastructure was meager before the earthquake (hence the shocking mortality rate), and most of that is now rubble. Large-scale capital investment will also be needed to re-equip the ports and to re-establish a power grid.
Recovery will also require re-establishing at least a small-scale manufacturing sector. Haiti, like its next-door neighbour, the Dominican Republic, once created jobs in port facilities, including production of clothing, baseballs, and other light-manufacturing items. Those jobs disappeared in the 1990’s, when the US imposed a trade embargo on Haiti as part of an effort to re-establish democracy. Democracy returned, but the economy was destroyed.
Other countries have risen from the rubble of natural disaster and war, and Haitican do the same over the next five to 10 years. For the next decade, however, and especially for the next five years, there will be no escape from the need to rely on international financing, and mainly grant assistance, to finance the rebuilding effort. The world has spent heavily in Haiti before, but very ineffectively. This time, it must be done right.
A clear strategy is needed to bolster the key sectors discussed above. Each sector requires a five-year recovery strategy with a clear budget and clear lines of partnership and responsibility linking the Haitian government, non-governmental organisations, and institutional donors, especially governments and international agencies.
The second key to successful reconstruction is to harmonise the international response. There are probably 40 or more official organisations from abroad, if not more, already engaged in the recovery effort. In addition, there are hundreds, if not tho

Write it for you!! Really?! Yahoo Answers is NOT for cheating and its cheating to ask someone to do your work! I don’t mean to be rude, but its kind of rude to other people for you to be asking them to do your work. My advice is if you don’t understand it or need help with it than go to your teacher and tell them. If it’s due tomorrow than try it and also have your parents look over it. Ask your parents if they can call or send an email to your teacher explaining how you don’t understand it and how you need help. Knowing you took someone else’s work will work up some guilt for when you turn it in, and it is 50% possible for your teacher to find out that it’s not your story

Lantana camara is a highly invasive plant just like parthenium. After being brought into India from South America as an ornamental and hedge plant about 2 centuries ago, now it has become so widespread as to threaten most of our wildlife habitat and making our forests inhospitable for native flora and fauna. This weed besides being inedible for the herbivores, also grows so thick and dense that the herbivores do not prefer to live in areas dominated by lantana. As such our already dwindling forest cover is further reduced by this pugnacious weed. Despite many efforts to eradicate, this weed still persists and pervades.

In this scenario, some tribal communities have started making furnitures from lantana. These furnitures resemble cane furniture in design and performance but only cost almost half the price. By making furnitures from lantana, these tribals besides making a livelihood for them, clear our forests of lantana. Another benefit is felling of other trees for furniture is prevented.

One such tribal community from Chembakolly village near Gudalur has formed an Eco Development Committee to make furnitures from lantana collected from Mudumalai Tiger Reserve. Around 16 families are now dependent on this venture. However, they are facing difficulty marketing their products at present and requested our help in this regard. Mohanraj and Thenmurugakani visited Chembakolly village and had a first hand experience of the way the lantana is made into furniture by these tribals.

We hope to place a trial order shortly and display these furnitures in this month’s EnviroMeet.

In this regard, we welcome your ideas in helping these tribals market their lantana furniture.

Together, we can effect change.
Photos : http://picasaweb.google.com/pasumaiosai10/LantanaFurnitureMudumalai#slideshow/5446847390798237906

Web : www.greenosai.org

a real eco help by innocent so called illiterate tribals an attempt the educated lot never have thought only books and press conference but they have done in practical well bring the product out get it inaugurated by any millionaire we have many they are paying for Polythenen sure they can promote it too on their mobile hoardings(players) shirts !
they have done a job but side by side they must plant more trees and be careful lantana bug is harmful for milk producing mammals and it could lead to biomagnification

So why do Palestinians have more rights that people from the Sudan, or the Congo, or Somalia, or Iraq, or Columbia, or Darfur or Rwanda? What makes them more special than any of these other refugee groups?
SECULAR HUMANIST- "Palestine" is not, and never was a country. It was the name of a geographic region named by the Romans following their victory over the Jewish kingdom of Judea in about the year 70. They named the area "Palaestina" after the Philistines of the Bible. The region included Israel, the West Bank and Gaza Strip, all of Jordan, and some of Syria. Palestine was never a country.

Their god Allah (Satan) has duped the rest of the world into thinking they are the victims when in reality they are aggressors who are unwilling to stop trying to exterminate Israel. Someday they’ll get their come-uppin’s!

So why do Palestinians have more rights that people from the Sudan, or the Congo, or Somalia, or Iraq, or Columbia, or Darfur or Rwanda? What makes them more special than any of these other refugee groups?
MICHAEL X- Do your research, and read what I have written. In 1948, the UNRWA documented 860,000 Palestinian refugees. Because Palestinians inherit refugee status, that number has grown to over 4.7 million. Israel has not exiled over 4 million people, as you claim. Really, if they were treated as every other group, there would be hardly any Palestinian refugees left.

Special rghts? Yes it must be a great privelege to live in a refugee camp, staring at the farm the Israeli army invaded and evicted you from 60 years ago, watching someone else pretending they owned it all along.

English
France, a wonderful country.
It is a country of passion.
A country of beautiful sites.
A country of exquisite foods.
A country with many customs.
A country with such influence on many other countries.
A country with such great livelihood.
A country which has the great and famous Eiffel tower.
A country which has the sacred and beautiful Notre-Dame Cathedral.
So, you see?
France is truly a wonderful country!
They have done so much for the world!
It is, truly, a marvelous country.

French (please tell me if there are differences if there is bad grammar)

La France, un pays merveilleux
. Le c’est un pays de passion.
Un pays de beaux sites.
Un pays de nourritures exquises.
Un pays avec beaucoup de douanes.
Un pays avec telle influence sur beaucoup de pays autres.
Un pays avec tel grand gagne-pain.
Un pays qui a la tour grande et célèbre Eiffel.
Un pays qui a la Cathédrale de Notre-Dame sacrée et belle.
Alors, vous voyez ?
La France est véritablement un pays merveilleux !
Ils ont fait autant de pour le monde ! Le c’est, véritablement, un pays merveilleux.

Now i used a french translator online and i know i should be doing it by myself but once again i am a french 1 student. If you know french very well would you mind translating my poem correctly?

France, pays merveilleux.
C’est un pays de la passion.
Un pays plein de beaux sites.
Un pays d’aliments exquis.
Un pays avec beaucoup de coutumes.
Un pays avec une telle influence sur de nombreux autres pays.
Un pays avec des moyens de subsistance si grande.
Un pays qui a le grand et célèbre tour Eiffel.
Un pays qui a le sacré et belle Notre-Dame.
Donc, vous voyez?
La France est vraiment un pays merveilleux!
Ils ont tant fait pour le monde!
Il est, en vérité, un pays merveilleux.