Haiti

The earthquake that struck Haiti in early 2010 changed the nation indefinitely.

With Haiti already being a very small and poor nation, the 7.0 magnitude earthquake that originated near the capital Port-au-Prince didn't do much good. The earthquake resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths, and a similar number regarding those injured. Nearly a million people were made homeless, many of whom were children who had lost their parents. In the picture above, Haitian survivors are rummaging through the debris of what used to be their home, possibly hoping to find any missing belongings, or maybe even loved ones. You could only imagine what it would feel like to be in that position. Your home and everything around it had been destroyed, you have nowhere to go, limited help and you can't stop worrying if your loved ones had survived or not.

Those thoughts are just the kind of thoughts that should provoke one to help. Haiti received a lot of help after this disaster, but not nearly enough to make everything right again. There are still people that are homeless, hungry, thirsty and sick. The fact that this happened in a nation where necessities were already a problem makes it all the more devastating. If an earthquake of this size happened to a nation such as America or China, it would not change the country as a whole; we have the resources necessary to make things right. But it happened to Haiti, and Haiti was truly changed by this.