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uh... had to leave the correct pronunciation is brainerd imitates
visitation who is in haiti at the time of the earthquake
khalid's foundation
are doing an interview research her family business was unfortunately
describing the earthquake and she's with us today to talk about
her experiences are you with us yes i'm here
thank you so much for joining us
on the young turks up welcome and up our sympathies to you
your family and your nation for all that you've lost
thank you very much for having me at important for the world to know what's
going on in haiti because it's really really horrific
you know a silty over and
credit but
tongue-in-cheek way
and pattern here your bailout that's because in a moment of everything's
everything's fine now now you got me don't you get that are aka of so you've
just answering distanced the because so many people talk about hate what did he
was like the day before
uh... the the earthquake and and and
that the poor condition of of the country are both medically physically
but
it's it's uh... it is the devastation of the nation like we've never seen before
certainly from its capital tell us about why there are reasons to be hopeful what
was that what was he the like the day before this that was was giving people
reason to be more hopeful than they had been in a while
mom well here they think obviously everybody knowing that haiti is a very
poor country and
you know that for the devastation
terrible because obviously you know most of the people are l_t_v_ or very poor
already and barely had you know enough to keep even before all of this so
it makes it even worse
you know it's a little bit they had it's all gone now you know in and no
phil i mean yes it's a very very devastating
situation and the infrastructure is
three back down there contempt of road access and it's very hilly though
on doesn't broadway ready very narrow and now with all the levels
becoming
almost impossible so
on
i mean the benefit can i pay and i don't have ward to describe it that would
really good justice but um it's amazing that's what everybody bryn and liz who's
been there says that this is uh... hard as we tried to describe this there is no
possible way to describe this tell us if you would about what your experiences
where it is used him and said to tell us about what the moment
did it started and while getting a lot of direct i'd reply back to the fact
that uh... that we were hopeful for haiti because you know we've had a lot
of international purportedly taped up that without them pen with going to be a
good year
um... the private sector in haiti with find any ng confident enough to invest
in the security situation was improving
so that's why we were very hopeful for two thousand and ten and then of course
now actually
at the capitol records ironic enough twenty minutes before the earthquake
might have been an hour watching us pbf report online about
mahalo they were making uh... an article on haiti in the u_s_ ambassador to haiti
with
is seeking about how
you know that u_s_ ed the u_s_ and internationally people are really
looking at
investing into haiti and with the whole pack everything that job it would be
more become more available there anyway
at that they experience with absolutely horrific
and i'm just thankful that my family and i live penang
sulfate for so many lifeblood
uh... it's after the happily horrible
unpaved
they found
of the rumbling when the earthquake began my husband and i were in fact the
house and luckily he ended for the immediately what was happening and dash
to the door
and i just that they're frozen out i was watching the lamp
alm picked this healing
tooling so much
and everything with falling over furniture glass
everything was just going off everywhere the paintings
he turned on and have been pet and saw that i want him out and he yelled at me
it through the quake hit an earthquake get out get out so
i got out and we got to adapt pool in our poll look correct
a bowl of water that was just
the waterways
blacking out of it
allman penpals we we it outside through the rest of the knives and a lot of
people from my neighborhood that i had lost their homes came in
camped out without and that just continued to speak for
twelve hours you know i'd like not continuously button
it continued to shake you know
within periods of shipwrecked thirty times after the big stick annual in your
home is riding in sort of princess my home
is right and photo prints yesen
from so far we've been lucky the holiday if the offending although we've had a
lot a lot of damage
but all the houses around that have collapsed
well i don't know
i don't know how
our home and it's too
fifth day but i would very lucky enough to be at work because i was i had
meetings that day phil
goto back to work and are building office building totally collapsed though
had we been had i been in in my office i would have surely not made it
uart you are in the united states now is that correct yes i'm i'm in the united
hit a mountain of my husband is haitian-american and i'm playing with
your family
and your husband is an haiti still yeah might have been here in haiti
when it happened he
he was very nervous about the future ethan weekly who
we rushed outside
they were
screaming
people everywhere in the fifty you couldn't get your moaning and screaming
adam even
and not doing it just the fact that the best way that i can discredit assembled
the
we said that liam at sandown
we we went out that and now we we started treating
people with
broken bones
painkillers like advil and aspirin
and mountain we had on the hydrogen peroxide and mike mueller four and a few
bandages and i have medicine cabinet that's the best we could do
and nam
it was just
it was a terrific you know kids coming up out of
houses with
bowen sticking out of there
aren't very late there have not mean it was just
it was just incredible but my husband
we didn't know at that point because all communications went down for took our
trek to find out that the rest of our family was ok which was also agonizing
don't have enough have you been able to speak with your husband back in haiti
yet have but very very rarely and it going to maybe once every thirty picked
our that though
and how were you able to get out as it was that that somewhere that was the
was it's a easier
with their flights leaving will work out their flag leaving and there were none
except but it would be needed by luck i went to the airport and waited
uh... a friend of mine had a a
assured
e-commerce naman
managed to get me on
it was the hardest thing for me believe i mean i i really didn't want it might
have been there and i wanted to help but he said that
i could go out and either by that much as possible and try to coordinate
efforts from over here which i have been doing
one too
to didn't help the needy because communication there's so poor that it's
really difficult to coordinate all these efforts from over there so i'm like a
hub of information
wiki talk to me and tell me what he needs them
i tried offended onto him because right now he's
working out of center called get killed and coordinating the relief efforts dumb
on and gets killed behalf as a volunteer it's basically like it's a very famous
sam
it's one of the world
first by the world for f actually birth is center that dedicated explicitly to
h_i_v_ repair chen objectivity couple
compete hospital treating everything not just
h_i_v_ but
we were working
uh... on the fed because my husband and i both have
family businesses there
we were both working
at volunteers mom on the board of
same which is the
fundraising leg of of gets killed
so we were very familiar with the organization they actually link cornell
and uh...
and fill you know he went down there and he's been doing
doing everything from helping with leg amputation too
you know if any help water purification system put the u_s_ military n
you know uninhibited simpson
lindsey lindsey
want once that once the crisis his past
uh... which will take many months as we know we certainly understand the need
for h_i_v_ treatment
prevention and research in that nation which has uh... construct hard by
in the meantime during this period of crisis for our listeners and viewers who
who want to help what would you recommend
on what i would definitely i mean i want to thank the world for helping haiti
because i know that you know because then
lacked it
defend me hope for your manatee the way that people have reacted to it and i
mean i kept her from alcohol
dyer the situation is but
i would definitely recommend
helping get gil they have a uh... price dat
g_a_t_t_ he ek can at all
back you have a web site which is
w the m
haiti dot org
and it's uh... tax-deductible it through cornell university food very reliable
and they've been in haiti for years and years
i fired on you know they're familiar with the territory they can providing
immediate relief
and they'll be cmc is weill cornell medical center probably exactly and
they're they're also going to be there for the next stage of the disaster just
like you heading out there
they have american positions on that contribution from all over the world
that are collaborating with the haitian stuff
you know uh... basically help
with beneath that had on there right now because they have between two and three
thousand people
camping out it's uh... it's at the clinic and also university campus
further the football field there and that's where everybody camping out s and
we're uh... we're speaking with the rudiments this is an element united
states who was in haiti during the earthquake
of granite
hesitations somebody who who live do you want to return to haiti as it did you
want to returns eliminating absolutely after that that would like to return
date yet responsible for that i can help in any way that i can
and what do you think now is the very most important thing this universal i
would say
but should send out in a month
on his think is that is the most important and very difficult question
because but how are living day by day
com adding apt
there's a list of
so long that i would really wouldn't know where to begin i mean i think that
it's really great that the u_s_ i think in control of the airport
and on
i would hope i don't know if this is even possible that that we would be a
under some kind of
bahut occupation that's not the right word the different kind of
peacekeepers you have to be people in their whatever help
for the next year maybe so that no
one things we can be a little less chaotic i don't think that the kayapo
will
stoplights
i think we definitely need it for you know that developed world if that's even
politically correct i don't know
the kind of uh...
really help us
you know really because i don't see how we're going to get out of it
along results it
just catastrophic looked thank you so much for coming and speaking with us and
we really appreciate it dot that website again
and that u
bus one last time he addresses the epic w he and
the help
haiti's dot ordered althorp entity abah e mail calculated you wanna post it on
their website that would be great very good we will try to do that thank you so
much and for those of our listeners who are not a computer right now
nine oh nine nine nine text maybe you can contribute ten dollars from yourself
thank you come life
sank you very much rather than i just wish list and and you know a post and
says we uh...
but you know come to the clothes are martin luther king day based so they're
always people
indeed and never more so than in haiti right now
why i think that martin luther king was always talking and thinking about the
the civil rights of people here but that the the human rights of people
everywhere and up a_b_a_'s is job one for that right now and i think certainly
a place for the young turks listeners to start is putting a lot of attention to
that substandard
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