Why is Haiti so poor? - Haiti History

1) The Haitian Population doesn't have gread industry skills, thats why, Haiti wasn't alowed to trade with the rest of the world.

2) There isn't alot of coherant cash crop in Haiti since the plantations were seperated into individual land parcals.

3) In the 17th and 18th centuries, Haiti was one of the richest countries in the world.

4) Most of the population works in the farming division.

5) Two thirds of the population is living of subsidence farming are vulnerable to tropical storms that ruin their crops and erode the land.

6) Haiti has been a big victim of hurricanes since 2008.

7) Haiti was a considerable lack of human natural resources.

8) Haiti doesn't trade with other polity outside the country a lot.

9) Not a lot of industries are found around Haiti, so to make money, most citizens must sell old clothes, soap and pencils.

10) 80% of the population is living in poverty.

Haiti earthquake part 2

Rescuers are now searching for the victims from the earthquake. They use rescue dogs, the dogs smell the people and help the rescuers to find victims. The aids use video cameras to search for people in the ground.If there is anyone in a collapsed building and is stuck, buggers rescue them from the pieces of the collapsed building. Aids can't hear anything if people try their best to scream for help, but are too quite to hear. For that they use an equipment to hear sounds louder. Haiti is a poor country. They only have weak buildings, which are not that heavy if they fall on you. There is a bigger chance that aids will find alive people that were in these buildings than in cement buildings.

Haiti Earthquake

A major earthquake hit Haiti on the 12/1/10 at 5pm local time. There were over 1000 feared dead in the 7.0 magnitude. It was the most powerful earthquake to hit Haiti in more than 200 years. It's epicenter was only 16km from the capital Port-au-Prince. Aftershocks went through out the night and Wednesday. It's power was 5.9 magnitude. Experts said that the epicenter was very shallow at a depth of 10km. The earthquake ruined the presidents palace, but the president has been saved.

On the map at the right the red places mean that the earthquake was heavy as in the capital Port-au-Prince. The yellow spots are from strong to severe and the green and blue areas are from weak till moderated.

My Holidays

Snow fun - I went skiing in Finkenberg which is in Austria. I had much fun skiing. Not only skiing was great, but also playing in the snow that started to melt the second day I was in Finkenberg. My brother joined me in the snowball fight I had with a tree. My bother and I had lots of fun with the snow. Unfortunately it was gone on the third day. We could just use the snow that on the top of a hill that we were skiing on. The day before we left it stated to snow.

Family - This year we weren't that much with the family, but we were. We met my grandparents and other relatives. We only one friend of mine, but not more. I got presents from everyone and enjoyed my short time with the family.

Christmas - I would say that Christmas is the highlight for many of us in the holiday. Well to me it wasn't. My highlight was the skiing. Christmas was good too thought. Right when we came home from skiing we got a Christmas tree that we could decorate and use, because we had no Christmas decorations in the house we were staying. My brother and I decorated it and then we went to a hotel to eat. We ate fish like always. It's just our tradition to eat vegetarian food at lunch (small meal) and then a big fish to share in the evening. Actually you shouldn't eat any meat at that day only in the evening. Before we eat we watch kids singing Christmas song near the church that is opposite the hotel we were eating. When we ate and came back to the house we opened our Christmas presents and talked together for a while. It was a good time celebrating Christmas.

At my Grandparents from my fathers side

For the next two days we are staying at my grandma from my fathers side. The first night we opened our presents. I got a puzzle and some other things. I was happy to see my grandparents again. We mostly just stayed in the house. Exept one day we went to the city. We were only short, because we still had other people to visit and we didn't have much time till we had to go back to Jakarta. We just met one other person here. In the evening of the second day we left back to Vienna.