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Title: Our country is sinking fast........and we're going down with it!!
Tags: Trouble with Haiti.
Blog Entry: Human rights author Anup Shah says:   Consider the following situation that Haiti is in: Haiti is the third hungriest country in the world after Somalia and Afghanistan The richest 1% of the population controls nearly half of all of Haiti’s wealth The poorest country in the western hemisphere The world’s fourth poorest country in the world Ranks 146 out of 173 on the United Nations Human Development Index Has a life expectancy of 52 years for women and 48 for men Adult literacy is about 50% Unemployment is 70% 85% of Haitians live on less than $1 U.S. per day. Haiti ranks 38 out of 195 for under five mortality rate. <a href="http://www.globalissues.org/HumanRights/Abuses/Haiti.asp"><i>Read More</i></a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   Haiti was not always in dire strait, what can we do as Haitians to push forth the effort to revitalize our country?