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We mentioned at the top of the hour how your donations have helped enormously here. it's saved thousands of people's lives, helped people to go back to school, helped people to begin to have a life, at least. all in all, 60 nations have pledged more than $5 billion over the next 18 months to help haiti dig out and start rebuilding. removing rubble, stuff like that. the sad fact is, only three countries have actually come through on their promises, brazil, norway and australia. we've been hearing tonight the problems go just beyond money. western hit up as we came into the airport. we brought i...

Issues with former president bill clinton, who along with haiti co-chairs the organization that will be designating where a lot of this money goes. i've heard people say, there's a lack of leadership on the ground on the part of the haitian government. there's a lack of coordination among ngo's. >> i agree with that, but keep in mind it's not for lack of effort. we've met with the groups. and the united states providing 89 90% of the funds spent by ngo's here. >> unless they're coordinated and working with you, it makes no sense. >> absolutely. >> a lot of ngo's are having problems when they'r...

Organizations have told us the same thing, they get hit up, or they're forced to put something in customs storage for weeks at a time, and get thousands of dollars in bills they have to pay in order to get those items back out. keeping them honest, we talked about that, and a lot of other issues, former president bill clinton chairs an organization that will be designating where a lot of this money goes. i've heard people say, there's a lack of leadership on the ground on the part of the haitian government. there's a lack of coordination among ngo's. >> i agree with that, but keep in mind it's...

It's provided water and food for people. all in all, 60 nations have pledged more than $5 billion over the next 18 months to help haiti dig out and start rebuilding. removing rubble, stuff like that. the sad fact is, only three countries have actually come through on their promises, brazil, norway and australia. as we've been hearing tonight, the problems go beyond just money. we were hit up as we came in to the airport. we brought in some relief supplies. we had $5,000 in heavy equipment for relief items. we're charged $1,000 for customs officials, they said there was a 20% tax on emergency s...

Commission to expedite ngo's that are registered in the country. that's a rather new thing. what had happened, you had the emergency phase. and then the rebuild phase. once it becomes that, in the international community's mind and the government's mind, then you're leaving it to an infrastructure that in the beginning already had more than it could handle. and now it's got all of these needs piled on top of it, with the earthquake. i would like to know, has usid offered administrative aid to the department of finance? if so, why would the ministry of finance not accept it? have they accepted ...