Haiti - what is the truth about the pledged donations

[Whisp]

I and I'm sure many would like to know - what is going on?

http://www.clintonbushhaitifund.org/
Bush and Clinton seem optimistic here and claim much is being done/or going to be. This must have been produced just shortly after the earthquake.

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/haiti/index.html
This is an article in the NYT, dated Feb 4, 2011


On Jan. 12, 2010, a devastating earthquake struck Haiti, reducing much of its capital to rubble. It was the worst earthquake in the region in more than 200 years. A study by the Inter-American Development Bank estimated that the total cost of the disaster was between $8 billion to $14 billion, based on a death toll from 200,000 to 250,000. That number was revised in 2011 by Haiti's government to 316,000.

More than a million displaced people still live under tents and tarpaulins. International donors promised Haiti $5.3 billion at a March 2010 donor’s conference; but reconstruction, of the build-back-better kind envisioned at the conference, has barely begun. Officials’ sole point of pride six months after the earthquake — that disease and violence had been averted — vanished with the outbreak of cholera.

Political unrest is once again at the forefront, this time over the disputed post-earthquake presidential contest. Mirlande H. Manigat, a former first lady and college administrator who was the top vote getter in the Nov. 28, 2010 election, will face Michel Martelly, a performer with the stage name Sweet Micky, in a March 20, 2011 runoff. The government had released preliminary results in December 2010 showing that Jude Célestin, a public works official who was President René Préval’s choice, had come in second, leading to days of violent protests over accusations of a stolen election.

Should Bush and Clinton still be asking for your money when little is being done with it?

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1. people still live under tents

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2. kick