1. Life Of The Mind Project: Mountains Beyond Mountains by: Tracy Kidder Presentation by: Claudio Tombazzi Haiti vs. The World

2. In Tracy Kidder’s book, Mountains Beyond Mountains, it is hard to grasp the idea that a country so decimated and torn exists in our time. Prelude

3. While we live in a time of…

4. Mansions

5. Electronics

6. Luxury Cars

7. And Overall Progress

8. Haiti lives in ruins…

9. With a population of 9.2 million, Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere

10. Ranking it 155th out of 180 nations, according to the United Nations Development Program Report of 2009 It is estimated that about half of that 9.2 million is illiterate

11. Its high infant mortality rate ranks it 36th out of 224 nations A third of all children die before their 5th birthday Most of Haiti’s population is moderately malnourished

12. 80 percent of the population is under the poverty line (54 percent in Abject Poverty) Life expectancy at birth is 61, ranking it 180 out of 224 nations 2/3 of the labor force do not have formal jobs Most Haitians live on less than 2$/day

13. 7.0 magnitude earthquake hits the 10 miles west of Port-Au-Prince 3 million people in need of emergency medical aid January 12, 2010 at 4:53 PM

16. “Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of human kind” - John Tillotson

17. http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/haiti_statistics.html https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ha.html http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/haiti/intro.htm http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/01/13/fast-facts-haiti-earthquake/ Bibliography