Haiti: one year on - does emergency aid work?
Wednesday 9 February 2011 19.00 - 21.00
Upstairs in - The Pembroke Castle, 150 Gloucester Avenue, London, NW1 8JA
Advance Tickets - £8, Students £6 -
(Students need to enter the discount code 'student 25' on the booking form. This will then update the form and charge £6)
The earthquake that devastated Haiti in January, 2010 made headlines across the world. Since then, billions of dollars of aid, as well as thousands of aid agency workers and volunteers have flooded to the area to begin rebuilding Haiti's infrastructure. One year on, serious questions have been asked of the value of much of this work in that time. Join Tzedek, the JCC and a panel of development proffessionals to discuss how positive the impact of aid agencies and aid has really be since the disaster.
The event will be hosted by Daniella Peled, is an editor at the Institute for War and Peace reporting and former foreign editor of the Jewish Chronicle. Other Panelists will be Paul Antioni - CEO World Jewish Relief, Simon Levine - researcher Overseas Development Institute, and a representative from Medecins Sans Frontieres.
For more information on Haiti and the role of Aid Agencies, please follow the links below. To get your ticket for the event click here.
For an article by Rory Carroll on "Aid Tourism" in Haiti, click here. The article argues that there are many well meaning and well intentioned volunteers in Haiti whose impact could ultimately be negative. Further discussion on the issue can be found here.
For more background on poverty in Haiti, and its influence on the current aid situation, click here.
For an article about the issues of child adoption from Haiti, click here.
