Keeping the less fortunate in mind

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Just Thursday I heard all the speculation of reporters predicting Gustav not be really signigifanct as a storm and not producing any lasting damage for the Gulf Region but when I hear about any Category 4 Hurricanes the first thing I think of is where did it come from. Those suffering first are the islands, some tiny, and Haiti is one that sticks out in my mind and also a Creole (French) speaking Carribean region. Some interesting facts about Haiti is the first INDEPENDANT black-led nation in the world that was the results of a massive slave rebellion that turned into a success. In 2004 with the hit of Hurricane Jeanne the storm killed 3,000 people from serious flooding and mudslides--some contribute this level of damage to continuing deforestation and soil erosion. Haiti is one of the poorest countries, if not the poorest, in the world and nearly 85 percent of its people still live in poverty--have remained the least developed and show signs of falling behind their rankings of other 'developing' countries according to the United Nations. 90% of their schools are not even run by the government but by the communities much like you see in Africa. These are the people I think of, even Cuba and Jamaica that has such a reputation for being a vacation hot-spot but Jamaica, a region that is continually hampered in their effect to curb a AIDS epidemic. So these are the people most devastated by the effects of these large storms and for countries with such alarming numbers of people living in poverty, it does affect them and the agricultural damage (such as Mangroves) does set them back even if there is no deaths, they live in tin houses for god sakes. Please keep them in your prayers. Please go to:http://www.wdsu.com/slideshow/weather/17315186/detail.html to see firsthand pictures, the current pictures are right before the storms which do not prove as any better, that ladies face was hard to look at for me, when we get fed up with where we live usually we can find some way to move but these people are stuck. "Look at the media reports about Haiti; it's nothing short than a fight for biological survival than many observers find on the ground. "The country is ravaged by incurable diseases like HIV, by generations of mismanagement and mistreatment; by tortures, corruption and criminal activity of any kind. What is the difference between now and 10 years ago? Then at least the people had hope that democratically elected figures could make a new beginning for Haiti. Now all these hopes have vanished. Now every man, woman and child have one thing to think about: how to escape and how to survive until escape. What the world should do to handle this crisis?" Simeon Mitropolitski, member of a opposition group (of bulgarian Region) who ended the communist regime in the region in 1989, now a Canadian analyst he is known for bringing up many hot top issues in his articles.