there in large measure and pulling out now. so it s on the down slide, i d say on the amount of international activities and u.n. forces are present, more than a peace keeping, watching mode, not doing anything particularly active. three years later it s hard to sustain momentum on any international effort at that amount of time. greta: coming up, america s doctors and nurses saving lives in haiti. medical professionals headed to haiti right after the quake and stayed long after. why should you care so much about haiti? those answers next. also, we re going to take you back inside the greta home and academy. you ll see how 80 hatian children are being educated and learning to love school. that s coming up.
u.n. peacekeepers from nepal. it killed thousands. so is cholera still a problem today? we ve traveled to haiti and seen the cholera clinic you had up and running a couple of years ago and it looked like the cholera, a horrible epidemic, people lost their lives and very sick. that seemed to be on the road to elimination, but is it back? is cholera back? it is greta, but not like it was, it s being contained in some of the rural areas, again, most of it is because of water. it s a water born issues, if you could boil the water, people have the education, to understand where it comes from and we ve seen that in haiti and able to educate people about just the water and making sure your water is boiled. but, the cholera is nothing like it was two years ago. two years ago it was a crisis. greta: when you talk about boiling the the water in order to avoid getting cholera. is the hatian government in any way trying to educate
are living to clear the streets of the corpses, the very tragic job that has to be done and to begin working on the electricity, the transportation, the telecommunications, now, the nuts and bolts how they get up and going again. greta: that was secretary of state hillary clinton speaking to on the record right on the airport tarmac in haiti and that interview just six days after the 7.0 earthquake hit. now, immediately after the deadly january 2010 quake, the international community rushing in to help the devastated nation. but what about now? is there any help or hope left? what is the international community doing and how do you define the international community? first of all, you have the governments from other countries, united states, france, the european union, people like that, groups like that that are working and that have taken specific projects and jobs that they are focused on. then you have ngo,
and aren t they spectacular beautiful places in haiti. people never been there, absolutely gorgeous. haiti is a spectacularly beautiful country and the name comes from the word, old native word for a mountainous place. it has soaring peaks, basically the highest mountains in the caribbean are on the island of hispanola. there are beautiful beaches. in the north, there s the citadel, and it s the world heritage sight, originally a fortress built to propel attacks from the the french, but on itself, magnificent castles on top of a the mountain, it s a beautiful country. gorgeous. greta: what does haiti need? i guess operating government. anything else it needs? i think it needs to develop. it s got the resources there, that s the conundrum. you look at haiti and the resources, the lush terrain, the beaches, our compound where we worked with samaritan s purse in haiti,
so, here you had a warehouse full of this material, this iv fluid that would save the life of these people, but we were one of the few groups in haiti that were actually taking care of the cholera epidemic. so, it was one of those things you put a spotlight on it greta, it was a huge help. and there was, you know, fox news has done a great job giving the spotlight. other news organizations have put a spotlight on haiti. we need to continue to help haiti. it s just a few hours off our shore and if we don t help them solve their problems, they ll come to hurricane by the boat loads. greta: how about the international community? are they still aggressively helping and are they showing, a good contribution, one that s leading to success? this is the thing, it s a mixed bag. right, because you have organizations that come in and maybe into the small area where they work, a small community or small subject area, they re able to make some kind of progress. unfortunately, often times