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On the Ground in Haiti After Earthquake with Mercy Corps

Sounds Good with Branden Harvey

CHAPTER

Hope Amidst Crisis

This chapter explores the challenges faced by Haiti during the COVID-19 pandemic and the devastation from an earthquake. It emphasizes the importance of hope and belief in solutions as catalysts for change, highlighting progress in the community despite daunting circumstances.

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Speaker 2
Obviously, the world is facing another crisis on top of this earthquake. COVID-19 is still really, really challenging. I know that Haiti only started rolling out vaccines, I believe a month ago, and there's still so many people who are unvaccinated. And now people are sheltering together. They don't have homes to distance. How is COVID-19 compounding this issue and how is it being addressed? It
Speaker 1
is intense and it is scary. Like you say, vaccines only just started, barely just started to get to Haiti. Only one tenth of one percent, a fraction of a percent of the population has had a chance to get even one dose of the vaccine. So, I mean, I think it's while we in the United States are talking about booster shots, people around the world are waiting at the back of the line. And that is really important to note in particular, because that's where we get variants. What we're looking at in Haiti right now is a situation where the Delta variant has already arrived. As you say, people are seeking shelter collectively in groups because there aren't that many buildings that are still standing that can provide shelter. Earlier this week, I visited a school that's sheltering about 200 people. They said that more were coming all the time. They'd taken all the desks out of the classroom and they just laid blankets down on the floor and people are sleeping side by side and head to toe because there's just not enough room. Social distancing is an impossibility in this sort of situation. And what needs to be done is we need to see vaccines And honestly, Brandon, what I'm thinking is, do we need to go through the entire Greek alphabet before we learn that lesson? And
Speaker 2
I'm just really,
Speaker 1
I'm really hopeful the answer is no. You
Speaker 2
and I were talking before we hit the record button about this idea that my goal for this conversation was that listeners would hear that there are, despite these heartbreaking problems, there are people working to create solutions and that that would leave listeners and myself, frankly, more hopeful and that that hope would ultimately drive us to join in and action. Because when you believe that something is possible, you can create that change. And what I'm hearing from you is a lot of examples of progress being made. I do feel hopeful. I do feel hopeful that we're addressing some of these problems and that we're going to be able to create a better solution for the Haitian people. Absolutely. You
Speaker 1
don't have to take my word for it. I mean, we're hearing it directly from Haitians themselves. I think that one of the most powerful things that I have heard about that notion of wanting to take action because you believe a solution is possible is that a teacher of mine told me that motivation is a multiplication problem, that you multiply the amount that you want something to happen by the amount that you believe that you know how to get it done. And if you don't believe that there is a solution or if you don't know the path to the solution, if that's a zero, it doesn't matter how much you want it to be done, that end results, the multiplication problem is zero. So, I mean, that's the thing that I love about the work that you're doing is that, and the work that we're doing is that we're showing people what the solutions are. And I think that that is what changes the hope and transforms the hope into the possibility. And it takes you from wanting something to happen to believing that it can happen. And it takes you from wishing that something could happen to making it happen.

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