Editorial Comment

The Haitian earthquake has done much to show well meaning people that the purpose of aid from the United States is not to help the recipient countries but to assist politically-connected U.S. companies and organizations.

In this scheme, countries like Haiti, Afghanistan, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, are merely places through which political paybacks get laundered. In fact, USAID, the United Nations, and other supposed foreign helpers merely give their wastes to those whom they aid. Here are a few examples of U.S. wastes that were offered as aid:

• Lots of unfortified rice purchased from Arkansas farmers,
• Genetically modified (GMO) seeds rejected by European Union countries but bought from Monsanto,
• Vaccines lots proven to be useless or dangerous but bought from Big Pharma.

One would be hard put to find a more fitting metaphor than cholera for the aid given and its end result. Indeed cholera has appeared in Haiti, Afghanistan, and the DRC.

A recent article in The Guardian contains much of the information needed to deduce what really takes place with US aid, although the article trumpets that USAID will no longer buy exclusively American but merely whispers that the old contracts were hugely inflated, and the new rules do not extend to U.S.-funded food aid, U.S.-made motor vehicles, or U.S.-patented pharmaceuticals.

One need not be clairvoyant to predict that USAID will try to generate more hunger, disease, and protest so as to devote a greater proportion of its budget to food aid, pharmaceuticals, and military vehicles.

Dady Chery, Editor
Haiti Chery

USAID Local Haitian & Haitian-American Partners

These are our local Haitian Partners and amount they received as an award before.:

Names                                                                                         Amount

Haitian Firms

ECA                                                                                          90,000.00
PAGS                                                                                      130,000.00
PAGS                                                                                        15,000.00
MEROVE PIERRE                                                                740,208.00
ECA                                                                                        303,890.00
JURIMEDIA                                                                          300,000.00
NATRANS                                                                               60,000.00
ECOMAR                                                                                 63,000.00
LFHH                                                                                      800,000.00
AMCHAM                                                                              238,420.00
IICA                                                                                         250,000.00
GHESKIO                                                                             2,940,000.00
Diquini ADVENTIST HOSPITAL                                          990,000.00
HAITIAN COMMUNITY HOSPITAL                                   400,000.00
OFATMA HOSPITAL                                                              400,000.00
ST-DAMIEN HOSPITAL                                                        577,000.00
ST-DAMIEN HOSPITAL PETITS FRERES & SOEURS      100,000.00
ST-DAMIEN HOSPITAL / SR JUDITH DOHNER                400,000.00
GHESKIO                                                                                   50,000.00
Richard Frechette, St Damian Hospital                                        4,000.00
GHESKIO                                                                                 599,938.00

Haitian-American Firms

CEEPCO                                                                                   626,000.00
CEEPCO                                                                                9,200,510.00
CEEPCO                                                                                   379,000.00
PHS Group Inc                                                                       3,785,331.00
PHS Group Inc                                                                       2,638,740.00
Technoserve                                                                           1,000,000.00
CEEPCO                                                                                   380,000.00
Health Through Walls                                                               345,624.00

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27,806,661.00

Top 20 Vendors for FY 2011, Foreign Governments Excluded

	Vendor	FY 2011
1	World Bank Group	1,000,800,783
2	Chemonics International, Inc.	735,599,989
3	World Food Program	724,454,393
4	Partnership for Supply Chain Management	417,726,429
5	John Snow, Inc.	387,360,155
6	Development Alternatives, Inc.	308,665,874
7	The Louis Berger Group, Inc.	264,436,926
8	Family Health International	258,599,838
9	FHI Development 360, LLC.	254,394,449
10	International Relief and Development	245,985,009
11	ABT Associates Inc.	244,620,469
12	Management Sciences for Health	220,295,202
13	Research Triangle Institute	218,319,556
14	ARD, Inc.	196,989,122
15	Creative Associates International, Inc.	196,851,005
16	Internation Organization for Migration	181,501,525
17	Catholic Relief Services	179,608,363
18	UNICEF	152,392,353
19	Population Services International	143,106,073
20	Pact, Inc.	132,709,317

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Top 20 Benefiting Countries’ Obligated Program Funds for FY 2011

	Country	FY 2011
1	Afghanistan	1,438,596,449
2	Haiti	970,910,372
3	Kenya	498,728,751
4	Jordan	460,251,837
5	Pakistan	393,000,846
6	Tanzania	371,859,231
7	South Africa Republic	348,995,068
8	Nigeria	336,053,916
9	Democratic Republic of Congo	265,018,524
10	South Sudan	264,407,305
11	West Bank/Gaza	245,378,605
12	Iraq	242,860,393
13	Zambia	229,272,026
14	Uganda	221,891,934
15	Colombia	192,362,083
16	Israel	190,526,897
17	Indonesia	182,565,755
18	Ethiopia	182,143,079
19	Mozambique	175,572,408
20	Liberia	168,738,471

Top 10 Bureaus that Obligated the Most Program Funds for FY 2011

	Bureau	FY 2011
1	Africa (AFR)	4,105,005,991
2	Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance (DCHA)	2,452,316,525
3	Global Health (GH)	2,098,030,688
4	Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC)	1,632,896,762
5	Office of Afghanistan and Pakistan Affairs (OAPA)	1,549,114,682
6	Middle East (ME)	1,136,701,096
7	Asia (ASIA)	849,969,063
8	Economic Growth, Agriculture and Trade (EGAT)	519,397,103
9	Europe and Eurasia (E&E)	487,698,159
10	Bureau for Food Security (BFS)	125,070,274

Obligations for Top 25 Program Areas for FY 2011

	Program Area	FY 2011
1	3.1 – Health	5,589,663,711
2	5.1 – Protection, Assistance and Solutions	2,045,054,767
3	4.5 – Agriculture	1,013,194,362
4	2.2 – Good Governance	953,754,766
5	4.4 – Infrastructure	690,006,767
6	3.3 – Soc. & Econ Services & Protection for Vulnerable Populations	570,647,789
7	3.2 – Education	523,008,584
8	6.2 – Administration and Oversight	503,649,915
9	4.8 – Environment	493,207,985
10	1.6 – Conflict Mitigation and Reconciliation	421,749,900
11	4.3 – Financial Sector	340,434,876
12	4.1 – Macroeconomic Foundation for Growth	261,193,235
13	2.4 – Civil Society	260,750,780
14	4.6 – Private Sector Competitiveness	217,258,347
15	1.4 – Counter-Narcotics	212,079,000
16	2.1 – Rule of Law and Human Rights	189,265,830
17	2.3 – Political Competition and Consensus-Building	180,626,325
18	6.1 – Program Design and Learning	127,363,345
19	4.7 – Economic Opportunity	108,321,072
20	5.2 – Disaster Readiness	106,263,764
21	4.2 – Trade and Investment	91,687,245
22	1.1 – Counter-Terrorism	42,666,866
23	1.3 – Stabilization Operations and Security Sector Reform	29,427,713
24	1.2 – Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)	19,000,000
25	1.5 – Transnational Crime	10,961,625

Sources: Haiti Chery | PDF of USAID’s new rules