Haiti's quake ravaged streets are still teeming with people recovering from the after effects of the worst quake to hit the country in this decade. Pooja Bhatia, a volunteer with the Institute of Current World Affairs, based in the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, has been posting messages on the social networking site Twitter about the disaster and also reporting for major US papers like the New York Times and Salon.com.
In a column published in the New York Times, a day after the devastating quake struck Haiti, Bhatia writes 'If God exists, he's really got it in for Haiti. Haitians think so, too.'
Her twitter messages include ones like :'Hedi Annabi, UN Haiti peacekeeper chief, believed dead in quake.'
In a reference to the quake's devastation, Bhatia wrote,' This will make the 2008 hurricanes look like child's play.' Haiti's lack of planning also is apparaent from the following messages, 'hardly any police on the streets. no one is providing order' and 'word is that things will get hot -- rioting and banditry already happening,' 'people on the street asking for help -- but no one knows who's supposed to give it.'
Concerns about basic services like electricity and water were also apparent in her tweets, 'water's going to be a huge problem -- for us, too' In the aftremath of the quake the Haitians gathered together and sang songs and kept a vigil to guard against the aftershocks of the quake. Hospitals in Haiti have been turning away the injured, Bhatia said in her column.
