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# Haiti After the Earthquake Paperback – July 10, 2012

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## Customer Reviews

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    Dr. Paul Farmer Talks the Talk, but Fails to Walk the Walk
  

*by L***I on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 20, 2011*

[...]Dr. Farmer gets a lot of the issues right in his book, "Haiti After the Earthquake", including one of his central points: public and private aid has bypassed Haitian institutions further weakening the country and the government to the point where it was unable to even respond to the earthquake.  This is the primary reason why Haiti has come to be known as the "Republic of NGOs".  Dr. Farmer also correctly points out that some NGOs do this intentionally (to keep getting their funding) and some unintentionally.  This process of bypassing of Haitian institutions is truly the central reason that the more than $20 billion in aid Haiti has received over the past few decades has really left no lasting mark on the country.However, Dr. Farmer seems to try to have it both ways.  While he recognizes that bypassing Haitian institutions is a critical problem and touts his and President Clinton's efforts to promote greater direct support for the Haitian government, including financially, his organization, Partners in Health, is the largest healthcare provider in Haiti.  How's that for bypassing Haitian institutions?  The senior representatives at the Haitian Ministry of Health note that Dr. Farmer's group built a kitchen in the state hospital and some medicine and equipments, but that's all he's done.  His hospitals and clinics all operate under the banner of Partners in Health, and his funding goes directly into those institutions rather than through the Ministry.  His plans now include building a massive teaching hospital in Haiti, but will operate it as Partners in Health, rather than under the banner of the Haitian Ministry.  To the Ministry's knowledge, he has never provided any sort of technical assistance or institution building programs for the Ministry.While he advocates for greater strengthening of and direct funding for Haitian institutions, he has not funneled any of the $80 million in donations for earthquake recovery that he was granted into the Ministry.  He received tens of millions of dollars in funding from USAID and the UN Special Envoy's office, led by President Clinton, where he serves as the Deputy Special Envoy (seems to be a conflict of interest there?).  In short, Dr. Farmer talks the talk in Haiti, but does not walk the walk.Finally, and most disturbingly, Dr. Farmer turns partisan in this book.  He is an unabashed advocate of former President Aristide.  Again, given his role as UN Deputy Special Envoy, this seems to be a conflict of interest.  The Haitian people actually forced President Aristide out of Haiti in 2004 because they were fed up with his corruption and violence.  The Haitian Government Accounting Office estimates that Aristide departed Haiti with more than $350 million in stolen government funds see: [...].  Aristide has never been held accountable, and in fact, returned to Haiti shortly after the earthquake.  The people were so happy he was returning that they ransacked his home the night he arrived taking everything from the mangoes on the trees to the bed linens.  How's that for a welcome home?  Dr. Farmer's partisanship in Haiti is cause for great concern among many Haitians, particularly given his role at the UN and his dominance in the healthcare sector.Aside from Dr. Farmer's questionable political intentions, no one can deny the sincerity of his humanitarian intentions.  Dr. Farmer quite clearly loves Haitian culture and the Haitian people.  He has done a lot of good in the country, including making an enormous contribution to combating AIDS and the provision of health services, particularly in remote regions.  He speaks fluent Creole and is married to Haitian woman who is truly a force of nature in her advocacy for women in Haiti and healthcare.  There's no doubt that he's made a real difference in the lives of thousands of Haitians.So in the end, it seems this review wants to have it both ways too.  As a Haitian, I admire and appreciate Dr. Farmer's work - and am deeply touched by his love for my country.  As someone who is frustrated by aid organizations bypassing Haitian institutions, I am disturbed and discouraged by how he has operated his NGO in Haiti.  And, as someone who has personally seen and experienced the violence of President Aristide, I am outraged by his partisanship.

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    An Honest Look at the Aftermath of a Tragedy
  

*by A***E on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 30, 2011*

Dr. Paul Farmer, Partners in Health and its sister Haitian organization Zanmi Sante, have transformed health care delivery in rural Haiti.  When the earthquake shook Haiti to its very foundations in January, 2010, Farmer and his colleagues were jolted out of the "comfort zone" that they had established in and around rural Cange, and were confronted with the need to respond to the overwhelming acute medical needs that the earthquake had created in urban Port-au-Prince.  This book represents Dr. Farmer's reflections one year after the earth-shaking event.  His thoughts are supplemented beautifully by  colleagues who were impacted in their own way by the ramifications of the earthquake.Farmer speaks authoritatively from a variety of perspective - as head of a successful NGO, as the Deputy to Bill Clinton in the UN's Office of the Special Envoy to Haiti, as a expert in public health and epidemiology.  The book sheds light on many of the decisions and actions that were taken in the hours and days after the earthquake, and the ongoing struggle to respond to what Farmer call an "acute upon chronic crisis" in helping Haiti move from rescue and recover to "building back better."  For those of us who love Haiti and its people, this is a "must read" book, for it chronicles with great detail the ways in which the Haitian government, the U.S. government, the international community and NGO's interact with each other.  The author has strong opinions about how things should work going forward, so the book is both descriptive and prescriptive. One would expect nothing less from a physician than for him to sign his name to a prescription pad to help alleviate Haiti's suffering.Like the history of Haiti itself, this memoir is a mixture of despair and hope.  I recommend it highly for anyone who wants a glimpses behind the curtain of what is happening (and not yet happening) in re-building Haiti.

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    Poweful and Revealing.
  

*by H***D on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 17, 2012*

This book is a must read for Haiti watchers.  Paul Farmer is always great but this is urgent stuff.  The problem is that a conserted effort to break through the Haitian and Donor bottlenecks to "buld back better" has not been mounted.  How this can be done is far from clear.  Too bad that the new Haitian President has not created a real working team with the UN under Bill Clinton, with a mandate to coordinate (read "direct") the multidonor effort at reconstruction.  Such a vehicle is needed to simply powerhouse the whole enterprise.This new Farmer book should be read in tandem with Tim Schwartz, Travesty in Haiti.  In his book you get more insight into the powerful impediments to development that have been built over time in the Haitian cultural fabic and in the peprvasive self-interest of donor agencies both governmental and in charitable NGOs.The problem is that a wholistic approach on a 20-30 year time frame is needed.  The starts and stops of foreig aid programs, the lack of coherence among donor programs, and the constant debilitation of government agencies - all demand time to fix.  At the base of it all is the urgent need to get to work on building a literate, informed and engaged citizenry.  Education, Education, Education.Harlan Hobgood, former USAID Director in Haiti

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