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Pay and collect a group of businessmen working with them, they go out and gather the plastic and we bring it into a central facility and bundle and bail it with the machines we have and take it to the recycling center. in just 2012, almost $100,000 to the hatian economy by paying the people involved in this program so we helped make their lives better and showed them what it was like to be an entrepreneur. what it was like to take care of their family. what it was like to involve the community in this effort. and the end result was cleaning up haiti, a huge problem. >> greta: and on the same l...

Pay and collect a group of businessmen working with them, they go out and gather the plastic and we bring it into a central facility and bundle and bail it with the machines we have and take it to the recycling center. in just 2012, almost $100,000 to the hatian economy by paying the people involved in this program so we helped make their lives better and showed them what it was like to be an entrepreneur. what it was like to take care of their family. what it was like to involve the community in this effort. and the end result was cleaning up haiti, a huge problem. >> greta: and on the same l...

That progress isn't going to last, that group, or outlast that group's exit from the country. but the real issue is that often times, when the responders are coming in, they end up doing more harm than good. one good example that's been discussed here and elsewhere, is the cholera epidemic. it's killed nearly 8,000 people in haiti. it's spread to the dominican republic, to cuba and there have been cases all over the region, and that's a disease that all evidence shows was brought to the country by united nations peacekeepers. who were there ostensibly to help, ostensibly to keep the peace and ...

Could coming back by day and access to clean water is a tremendous issue in haiti. lack of clean water causes so much health problems. high infant morality rate in haiti and that's one reason we worked with a lot of water and sanitation programs, digging new wells and teaching people sanitation techniques, how to wash their hands and take care of food to try to eliminate this. the good point of the terrible cholera epidemic, it did raise awareness, how you can fix it and work toward-- you're never going to fix cholera, but lessen the impact in the future. >> greta: and the sadness how it got i...

Pay and collect a group of businessmen working with them, they go out and gather the plastic and we bring it into a central facility and bundle and bail it with the machines we have and take it to the recycling center. in just 2012, almost $100,000 to the hatian economy by paying the people involved in this program so we helped make their lives better and showed them what it was like to be an entrepreneur. what it was like to take care of their family. what it was like to involve the community in this effort. and the end result was cleaning up haiti, a huge problem. >> greta: and on the same l...