This is a first step in what comes next in Haiti and for Haiti. 

Ross 

Only now is the true scale of the disastrous January 13 earthquake in Haiti is emerging. Reports now suggest more than 50,000 people may have died, with hundreds of thousands made homeless. The work ahead to recover from this tragedy is immense. So here's our goal: $890 million for Haiti . That's how much Haiti owes to the International Monetary Fund, the Inter-American Development Bank, and a handful of others. Sign the petition below to ask Haiti 's creditors to act quickly and cancel Haiti's debts:

http://www.one.org/international/actnow/haiti/ 

Visit the ONE blog for more information:

http://www.one.org/international/blog/update-on-haiti/

As Haiti begins to rebuild we can help by lifting this debt. Together as ONE we can make a difference!

Thanks! 

The US Marine occupation of Haiti from 1915 to1934 marked the end of a beautiful city set in the middle of the country’s laughing geographical outline. The Marines built highways that all focussed upon Port au Prince. Before that time the roads that linked the capitol with the rest of the country took time to travel, so the need to go to the capitol was either economic or bureaucratic or to visit a relative. There had to be an important reason to travel to the capitol.

With the roads also came communications. This was needed for control purposes because the U.S. Marines were at war with those who did not want the country to return to slavery. These dissidents saw the occupying force of a country that maintained trade embargos since the founding of their country. They saw the face of the white man, because the U.S. Marine Corps was the last military organisation in the United States of America to be integrated in the 1950s, and that face was not a friendly one. There is a saying in the Marines that they are 90% Texans and 10% men, and Texans were not racially tolerant during and after the First World War and Great Depression.