Katrina vs. Haiti

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I'm tried of people making the comparison, so I'm going to show you some hard facts. Here are the donations made to the US, Red Cross, etc after Hurricane Katrina.

Afghanistan
Donated $100,000 to the hurricane victims.[3]

Albania
Donated $300,000.[4]

Argentina
Made offers of help and assistance. Argentina also dispatched an elite team of bilingual mental health professionals.[5]

Armenia
Pledged $200,000 and made offers of help and assistance.[6]

Australia
AUD 10 million (approximately USD 8-9 Million), and a team of 20 emergency response officers immediately. Donated AUD 10 million to American Red Cross.[7]

Austria
140 specialists of the AFDRU were put on stand-by. Their focus was to have been on providing clean water with portable water-treatment plants. Within the EU Emergency Assistance for Katrina, Austria set up a communication network using IT and communication equipment for assistance/support, provided 10 sets petrol driven dirty water pumps, 500 pieces tarps/plastic sheeting and 300 camp beds.[8]

Azerbaijan
Donated $500,000.[9]

The Bahamas
Pledged $50,000.

Bahrain
Donated $5 million.[10]

Bangladesh
Donated humanitarian aid worth $1 million and said it would send 160 disaster management experts, including doctors, nurses, engineers and others.

Belarus
Made offers of help and assistance.

Belgium
Offered 3 Medical teams of 31 personnel, logistic team of 10 personnel, coordination team of 4 personnel, civil engineering team of 10 personnel, diving team, and also balloon-lamps, low and high capacity pumps and small generators.[8]

Bosnia and Herzegovina
Made offers of help and assistance.

Brunei
Donated $1 million.[10]

Cambodia
The king donated $20,000 to match the $20,000 Cambodian government donation.

Canada

Chile
Made offers of help and assistance.

People's Republic of China
On September 2, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that it will offer $5 million along with emergency supplies, including 1,000 tents, 600 generators, bed sheets, immediately for disaster relief. China also offered to send medical care and rescue workers if they were needed.[11] This aid package consisting of 104 tons of supplies later arrived in Little Rock, Arkansas.[12] A chartered plane carrying the supplies arrived on September 7.[13]

Colombia
Made offers of help and assistance.

Cuba
One of the first countries to offer aid, Cuba offered to send 1,586 doctors and 26 tons of medicine. This aid was rejected by the State Department.[14]

Cyprus
Offered $50,000.

Czech Republic
Offered rescue teams, field hospital and pumps and water processing equipment.

Denmark
Offered Water purification units.[8]

Djibouti
Offered $50,000.[2]

Dominica
Offered police to monitor hard-hit areas.

Dominican Republic
Offered rescue workers, doctors and nurses.

Ecuador
Made offers of help and assistance.

Egypt
Sent 2 C-130 planes loaded with blankets, medical equipment, and canned food.

El Salvador
Offered to send troops to help keep order in New Orleans.

Equatorial Guinea
Pledged $500,000.

Finland
Sent Finn Rescue Force—the group consists of 30 firemen and three Red Cross logistics experts.. Additionally Finland offered 300 tents, a water purification unit, sterile gloves, bed sheets, pillow covers, tarps and first aid kits.

France
(Edit by Akkere, information provided by Featherbrook)
Offered 600 tents, around 1000 beds, 60 electrogenic groups, 3 pumps, 3 water purification stations, 1000 folding jerricanes and other materials

Gabon
Pledged $500,000.[2]

Georgia
Made offers of help and assistance.

Germany
(edit by Akkere, information provided by Featherbrook)
Sent in 25 tonnes of food rations and offered airlifting, vaccination, water purification, medical supplies, emergency electrical power and pumping services.

Greece
Offered $85,000[21], two cruise ships to house those left homeless, a rescue team, and supplies.

Guatemala
Made offers of help and assistance.

Guyana
Made offers of help and assistance and is organizing a telethon to raise money for victims.

Honduras
Offered 135 flooding and sanitation experts.

Hungary
Pledged $5,000 and offered to send a Special Search and Rescue Team, and also five doctors.

Iceland
Offered $500,000.

India
India offered to contribute $5 million to the United States Red Cross for relief and rehabilitation of the victims. They also offered to donate medicines and large water purification systems for use in households and small communities in the stricken areas, where potable water was a key concern.[22] India sent tarps, blankets and hygiene kits. An Indian Air Force IL-76 aircraft delivered 25 tonnes of relief supplies for the Hurricane Katrina victims at the Little Rock Air Force Base, Arkansas on September 13, 2005.[23]

Indonesia
Offered to send 45 doctors and 155 other medical staffers and 10,000 blankets to help survivors.

Iran
Offered to send humanitarian aid and 20 million barrels (3,200,000 m3) of crude oil.[17][24]

Iraq
Pledged $1 million to the Red Cross via the Red Crescent.

Republic of Ireland
Offered to send 30 members of the Irish Defence Forces. The Irish army would have supplied thousands of ready meals, tents, blankets, water purification services and medical aid, including first aid kits, crutches and wheelchairs. The group would have included about ten experts in stress debriefing. Six of the troops would have operated two water purification plants. The Irish Government also announced it is to provide initial funding of EUR 1.2 million for the victims.

Israel
Offered field hospitals and hundreds of doctors, nurses, technicians and other experts in trauma, natural disasters and public health.[25]
An Israeli airlift arrived in Little Rock, Arkansas with an eighty-ton shipment of humanitarian aid, including baby food, diapers, water, ready-to-eat meals, clothes, tents, blankets, mattresses, stretchers, first aid kits, wheelchairs, and other medical supplies.
The Magen David Adom began "United Brotherhood Operation," which sent a plane-load of supplies and financial assistance.
IsraAid sent a delegation of medical personnel, psychologists, and experienced search-and-rescue divers. The 18-member team — which included physicians, mental health professionals, trauma specialists, logistics experts and a special unit of Israeli police divers — arrived in St. Bernard Parish and Plaquemines Parish on Sept. 10 and spent a week and a half assisting fire department search-and-rescue squads and sitting in on daily planning meetings that included local leadership and a complement of Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), police, military and fire representativesmedical team.[26]
Five universities in Israel welcomed displaced American students from the affected areas and invited both undergraduate and graduate students to continue their studies in Israel.[27] In particular, medical students unable to attend the Tulane University in New Orleans can attend Tel Aviv University's Sackler School of Medicine.[28]

Italy
Italy offered to send two Hercules C130 cargo aircraft fitted with emergency aids, including 300 Adult camp beds, 300 blankets, 600 sheets, 1 suction pump, 6 lifecrafts, 11.200 chlorine tablets, 5 units of large first aid kits, baby food formula pumps, tents and power generators. Italy also offered to send some experts of the Protezione Civile to help coordinating relief efforts in the damaged area.[8]

Jamaica
Made offers of help and assistance.

Japan
The Japanese Foreign Ministry said that it would provide $200,000 to the American Red Cross to assist victims of Hurricane Katrina. Japan also identified needs in affected regions via the U.S. government and provided up to $300,000 in emergency supplies such as tents, blankets and power generators if they receive requests from the U.S. for such assistance. One Japanese individual, Takashi Endo, donated USD 1 million from his personal funds to Katrina relief efforts.[13]

Jordan
Made offers of help and assistance.

Kenya
Offered $100,000.[2] There were also early reports of $400 million in petroleum products being donated from Kenya, though these later proved to be erroneous.[29]

Korea, South
Offered $ 30 million and dispatched a rescue team.[13]

Kuwait
Parliament approved $500 million for aid in oil and other humanitarian aid.

Latvia
Offered a disaster relief team.

Lithuania
Made offers of help and assistance.

Luxembourg
Team of five persons, 1000 camp beds and 2000 blankets.[8]

Malaysia
Pledged $1 million to American Red Cross.

Maldives
Sent $25,000 to American Red Cross.

Mauritania
Promised $200,000 to American Red Cross.

Malta
Made offers of help and assistance.[8]

Mexico

Mongolia
Pledged $50,000.

Nepal
Pledged $25,000.[30]

The Netherlands
Royal Netherlands Navy Frigate Hr. Ms. Van Amstel arrived from the Netherlands Antilles. The frigate was filled with supplies and had helicopters on board that can be used in rescue actions. Further, The Netherlands sent experts on the subject of water containment and dikes, identification teams and pumps to deliver clean drinking water, F-16s with sophisticated infra red or thermography camera pods (to look for weaknesses in the levees, corpses and hidden survivors) and divers from the Royal Netherlands Marine Corps. On September 7 The U.S. government announced that it would take up the Dutch government's offer to send water pumps, and also five water management experts.

New Zealand
Main article: New Zealand response to Hurricane Katrina
Pledged $2 million though the Red Cross. This contribution was in addition to the offers the government has already made to send an Urban Search and Rescue Team, a Disaster Victim Identification team or post disaster recovery personnel.[31]

Nicaragua
Made offers of help and assistance.

Nigeria
Pledged $1 million to hurricane disaster relief.

Norway
Made offers of help and assistance. An amount of NOK 10 million was given through the Norwegian Red Cross and the UN. In addition, Norway offered divers and medicines.

Oman
Pledged $15 million.

Pakistan
On September 4 Pakistan offered to send a team of doctors and paramedics to support the relief agencies. Pakistan also pledged $1 million through the Red Cross.

Palau
Pledged $50,000.

Papua New Guinea
Promised $10,000 to American Red Cross.

Paraguay
Made offers of help and assistance.

Peru
Offered to send 80-100 doctors to help survivors.

the Philippines
Offered to send a 25-member team of aid workers. The Philippines Red Cross donated $25,000.

Poland
Made offers of help and assistance.

Portugal
Offered tents, mattresses, blankets, hygiene kits. Portugal lent 2% of its strategic oil reserve, equivalent to 500,000 barrels (79,000 m3) of oil.[citation needed]

Qatar
Pledged $100 million to the victims.[32]

Romania
Offered 2 Teams of medical experts.[8]

Russia
Was one of the first countries to offer assistance. Up to four jets were placed on standby at the Ramenskoe airport near Moscow as early as August 30, including heavy Ilyushin Il-76-TDs with special evacuation equipment, medical equipment, a water-cleansing system, a rescue helicopter BK-117 and two special cars; and a passenger IL-62, which brought 10 coordinators and 50 rescuers, as well as 6 tons of drinking water. On September 6, the Bush administration gave its approval.[33]

Saudi Arabia
Saudi Refining, a Houston-based subsidiary of state oil firm Saudi Aramco, donated $5 million to the American Red Cross, as well as $250,000 from AGFUND.

Singapore
(edit by Akkere, info provided by Featherwood)
Three Singaporean CH-47 Chinook helicopters and thirty-eight RSAF personnel from a training detachment based in Grand Prairie, Texas assisted in relief operations from 1 September. They had so far ferried about 700 evacuees and hauled tons of supplies in 39 sorties on 4 September. One more CH-47 Chinook helicopter was sent to aid in relief efforts

Slovenia
$120,000 worth of cots, mattresses, blankets, temporary shelters and first-aid kits.[35]

Spain
Spain sent 2.1 million barrels (330,000 m3) of crude oil from its strategic reserves (the 1.75% of the Spanish reserves) for a 30 day period.[36] On September 7 two Hercules cargo aircraft took off with 15 tonnes of food rations, electrical generators and batteries, medical equipment and other humanitarian assistance collected by the Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional (AECI). A second envoy was sent a few days later.[37]

Sri Lanka
Pleged $25,000 for relief efforts.[38]

Sweden

Sweden offered to send medical and technical aid, and a Hercules cargo aircraft filled with three complete GSM systems, first aid kits, blankets, Ready-to-eat meals, generators, 2 heavy water purification plants, as well as water sanitation experts. On September 4 the U.S. State Department declined the aid, saying it was currently unable to accept foreign aid packages. On September 12 the Hercules plane left the Gothenburg-Landvetter Airport, carrying a cargo of three Ericsson GSM network systems. A team of technical consultants to help with the aid package was also provided.[39]

Switzerland
Switzerland offered specialised personnel and material to the USA and the World Health Organisation (WHO). In accordance with US requirements, 50 tonnes of rescue equipment were ready to be sent, along with two logisticians of the Direction du développement et de la coopération (DDC, "Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation" wink to help coordinate distributions. Four physicians and two water specialists were also put to the disposal of the WHO.

Republic of China (Taiwan)
Pledged more than $3 million to the relief effort, plus supplies.[17]

Thailand
Sent at least 60 doctors and nurses along with rice.

Tunisia
Sent two C-130s with relief supplies.

Turkey
Promised $2.5 million in cash and aid.

Uganda
Offered $200,000.[2]

United Arab Emirates
Pledged $100 million.

United Kingdom
The United Kingdom dispatched 500,000 ration packs worth EUR 3 million, to the region. However, many of the ration packs did not reach victims due to laws regarding mad cow disease[40]. It also offered medical experts, Urban Search and Rescue equipment, Marine engineers and high-volume pumps, skilled personnel including engineers who could support recovery efforts for installations and systems, technicians, staff trained in disaster management and emergency response activities. It also pledged to release an extra 2.2 million barrels (350,000 m3) of oil.[8][41]

Venezuela
President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela offered one million barrels of oil and 5 million dollars in aid to the United States. This aid was rejected by the State Department.[42] State-owned Petróleos de Venezuela, the parent company of Citgo Petroleum Corporation, has also pledged a $2 million donation for hurricane aid.[43] Two mobile hospital units were also offered, but were declined, according to Jesse Jackson.[44]

Vietnam
Pledged $100,000.

Yemen
Pledged $100,000 through the Red Cross.

I don't have the data for Haiti, but I can tell you already that it is significantly less. Now, lets look at the approximated death tolls:

Katrina: 1600 deaths
Haiti: 100,000 deaths and counting

Percentage of deaths vs. cash donated makes it look like there's a discrepancy about how much everybody cares. So stop comparing it to Katrina. Stop saying it's over saturating the media. Stop saying it's not our business. That's what 80% of Germans said during WWII.

[C0FFINCASE]

The only comparison I care to make between the two is Bush doesn't instantly solve hurricane damages and people go nuts and say he's racist and leaving people to die. Earthquake hits and it take the US almost a full week to respond and no one gets pissed at Obama. That would be bullshit.

Also Jak in reality no one cares about Haiti. Its government and infrastructure was shaky at best. Before this is over the UN will end up in control of it and then have the US take over till we can set them up again which could take years and we'll have to stick around afterward to make sure things done go Fubar. This is going to cost the world a shit ton of money for years to come plus we're in a repossession so nobody is bothering. Why did they care about the US? Because we're important to the world economy.

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I think Katrina was the worse out of both of them...Not many people care about Haiti but alot of people cared for New Orleans..Thats Lil Waynes hood right there...(starts crying)

[Suske]

1. Katrina happened in the US. Of course countires are going to rush to help out the United States. They know that if they helped, the US would be in debt to them and when they need the US' help for whatever reason, they can call upon them and they can't say no because they helped them during a disaster. Haiti however has no services it can provide to other countires. I dont want to degrade any haitians but Haiti is one of the World's poorest country.
2. Instead of sending foof and other supplies, the United States sent troops with big guns which is something they dont need right now. The troops are somehow restricting some planes to land on Haitian soil. Besides the tragedy just happened recently. I hope by the next couple of weeks recue teams and supplies will reach that country.
I have a couple of Haitian frineds and they are devastated at what's going on in the country. Although all their loved ones are safe and sound, they can still feel the other Haitian's pain.

[C0FFINCASE]

2. Instead of sending foof and other supplies, the United States sent troops with big guns which is something they dont need right now. The troops are somehow restricting some planes to land on Haitian soil.

Actually since Haiti didn't really have a government to start with and is now basically without one troops are exactly what they need. I know that we all like to think we're not animals but we are. There is limited food and supplies at the moment and just not enough people to take care of everyone at once, if there were no men with big gun Haiti would be even more of a hell hole than it is now. We're providing structure and preventing anarchy so that Haiti can hopefully begin to heal not just become a clusterf*ck.

[CL0V3R]

Haiti aid: which countries have donated what and where the money goes // Current

The total amount of aid officially donated in total around the world (not including citizens' donations, just the official government ones) is $733,707,082.