Rebuilding in Haiti: Taking a Wrong Turn?

Recently, CNN new reported that surviving citizens of Haiti are not waiting for international assistance, but instead attempting to reconstruct buildings. However, engineers are growing worrisome, and with good reason. The building itself is very informal and people are using torn pieces from the once-collapsed houses, which could easily fall apart.

CNN interviewed Jean-Fritznel St. Claire and three friends, reporting:

the group insists that they and others who stayed in the earthquake zone are eager to start clearing rubble and building what they can.

Yet this hastiness to rebuild concerns engineers that are working to help the Haitian people with the clean-up and reconstruction after the 7.0 earthquake. They claim that Haitians are only turning to the materials that are available to them instead of making safe buildings with nonhazardous materials.

The earthquake alone should have triggered a hasty response by the rest of the developed world, but this clearly shows that Haiti is not getting the help it needs ergo we need to step up our game.