On January 12th, most of the world awoke to the fact that Haiti existed.
Bleary-eyed, we were quickly fed by the media a month-long crash course about Haiti: its troubled history, its politico-economic situation, the frustrations of disaster relief, and so forth. We were shocked by graphic pictures and moved by stories of heroism. Now, the Haitian narrative in the media is dying out; the adrenaline of compassion has hit its peak. What next?
