Post date: Dec 12, 2010 9:5:11 PM
Former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin wrapped up a two-day visit in Haiti Sunday after she toured cholera treatment centers. Jon Decker reports.
HAITI-PALIN - Exactly 11 months after a powerful earthquake struck Haiti, killing more than a quarter of a million people and leaving more than a million others homeless, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin visited the impoverished country -- which is also in the grips of a deadly cholera outbreak.
SARAH PALIN FORMER GOVERNOR OF ALASKA SAYING:
"Haiti has been a country that has suffered in the past and is going continue to suffer until some fundamental changes are being made here. Fundamentally the change that needs to be made is job opportunities especially for the young people of Haiti."Palin, a possible Presidential candidate in 2012, visited Haiti after a violent week of protests rocked the capital of Port-au-Prince following chaotic and inconclusive presidential elections.
SARAH PALIN FORMER GOVERNOR OF ALASKA SAYING:
"Thank the media for keeping a spotlight on this country and on the conditions that the people are living in. That they are trying to survive amidst and to be here and to see firsthand the conditions and what it takes for the people who are living here, in such adverse conditions, what it takes just to survive their daily lives are so challenging because of economic and political and environmental conditions."
Palin traveled to the island nation with Franklin Graham, a Christian evangelist and missionary, who runs a relief group that operates in the country.
Jon Decker, Reuters.