Current Event: Haiti Disaster

On the 12th of January 2010, an earthquake stuck Haiti with a magnitude of 7.0. This was a deadly earthquake that caused numerous deaths, and destruction of houses and infrastructure. Fully eighty percent of the haiti population lives under the poverty line. Three million survivors are affected and will require emergency aid. Emergency aid is required because Haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphere and therefore cannot afford healthcare. Emergency aid is given by the help of all countries around the world who are sending medicine and covers for the poor population.

This is politically important because other countries get to help Haiti and in the future Haiti will support them when they are in need of support. This is exactly why Morocco is helping Haiti when it has many starving and poor people on the streets in need of the same care as the people in Haiti.