‘Things are moving rather slowly’
Carel @ The Shorty Awards- Photo by taishimizu.com
Along with other tweeters, Carel was also sending digital photos of the destruction caused by the quake. Many of the images appeared in mainstream newspapers and on TV channels shortly afterwards.
Earlier this month, he picked up a Special Award at the “Shorties” in New York. The annual event honours the best producers of short, real-time content. He was also nominated in the best Innovation on Twitter category.
At the United Nations, international donors pledged more than $5bn in financial aid for Haiti’s recovery.
Below, Carel Pedre gives World News America his assessment on how far his home country has come since that devastating day.
It has been three months and yet it seems like three weeks. Things are moving rather slowly from what I’ve seen. People are still living in the streets; many of them have no shelter, no tents, no living spaces. And when it rains it is catastrophic.
I am an ordinary person but at the same time I still have a job, I have my house, my family is safe, I am going about town normally. But for those that I pass on the streets of Champs de Mars still stranded in front of our National Palace, I can’t imagine how they are feeling, all I know is that they are surviving not living. (more…)
