Part A
Haiti earthquake was a massive 4.5 earthquake which happened in 12 January, 2010. It's estimated that more than 230,000 people died, 300,000 injured and 1,000,000 became homeless.They also estimated that 250,000 residences and 30,000 commercial buildings had collapsed or were severely damaged. It's a very serious problem, because they lost buildings like home and school. They don't have any water supplys and food to support their family. Fortunately, more than 1,700 staffs helped the victims, The Dominican emergency team assisted more than 2,000 injured people, while the Dominican Institute of Telecommunications (Indotel) helped with the restoration of some telephone services. Many people around the world are trying to help these victims in Haiti. But it's certainly not enough, everyone should do something about these problem, without it, they won't be able to survive, because they lost almost their everything. Haiti, the poorest country in America won't be able to recover this situation fast, it will take time, but it would be at least possible if we all help them.
Part B: Ayiti-Cost of Life
In global issues class, we played a game called Ayiti-Cost of Life, which was about Haiti. When I first played this game, it was really hard for me because I had to think in long term to be successful in this game. If I would describe this game to a friend, I would tell them that it's a very educational game to learn about Haiti, because I learned that how Haiti is a very serious problem by playing this game. During this game, you have to choose one of three primary objective which were Money, Happiness and Education. I choose Education for my game, because I thought once you get educated, you get a better job so you can have more money which will make you happy. There were serveral decisions I had to make while playing this game, things like sending my children to primary school or local school. Primary school was much expensive than local school, but it gave much more education to my children. Also, there were different jobs that parents could work, one was harsh than other one but I could earn a lot of money. To achieve my object, which was education, I first started with local school and send parents to harsh jobs, once I got enough money, I sent the children to Primary school. I used this stratigies because first time I played the game, I started with Primary school, then the problem was that too much money was spended. Then after 1 year, I realized that the parents are crying every day, which shows that they are not happy with their jobs(too harsh?), so I stopped mom and sent her to home to rest, and I choose less harsh job for dad. Then money started to disappear, until I had no money to keep sending my children to school. I was really shocked how fast and easy my money disappear, soon I couldn't keep up with the game. After playing this game, I was amazed how different my life is compare to people in Haiti. I realized I am so lucky to go to international school with whatever I want,and I have all the three things! money, happiness and education. I think parents choose to devote so much effort sending their children to school and it's vital to a coutry's development to educate its people, especially women because because like I said before, by getting good education, you can have more money and be happy. Even though it's hard for LEDC to educate its people, because no one was educated in first place, I think if they reduce the cost of school, or even make it free, they could certainly make this issue better. Also, they should even make a law that people must be educated no matter what gender they are. For Millennium goals, they should all think about 8 things, because if they follow these 8 things, surviving in aids and their environment would be much easier.
Source: Picture of Haiti girls- http://christtherockglobal.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/haiti-girls2.jpg
Picture of the game: http://www.unicef.org/voy/explore/rights/explore_3142.html
Informations about Haiti earhquake: http://www.fotopedia.com/en/2010_Haiti_earthquake
