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>> this is indicative of our mission overseas. >> also tonight, disappearing icon. africa's endangered black rhino. >> we'll continue the population of the black rhino in africa. >> an revolution in agriculture brings in new green. >> and good evening, thanks for being with us. i'm joie chen. when haiti was leveled by an earthquake, the world rallied.

the united states and other countries pledged billions of dollars in aid. for the 1.5 million displaced victims it meant a chance to rebuild and build a new haiti. and to build back better. so far, though, that hasn't happened. america tonight special correspondent sole lad o'brien with a look at what went wrong. >> a hot and dusty camp site. the pastel houses and trees are deceptive. from a distance it looks very solid. but when you get up close its just plywood. >> yes, it's some kind of plywood, but they painted over it, and it looks better than it really is. >> jimmy and his family were among the first to come to karai

three months after the earthquake. their home it collapsed. aid agencies encouraged thousands of haitians to abandon their tent cities for a chance of better and eventually permanent housing. this is what they ended up with. >> so this is your mother's house? tell me a little bit about it. >> yes, this is mom's house. when you come in, you see it very small. you look up and you see the roof is metal, the sun is hot. the house is boiling hot. you come here, and you see her bedroom where she sleeps. when it rains the water comes rushing from the mountains and comes in, and we have huge flooding. it's not good. >> it's not good for the 40,000 haitians who have been living here for more than three years, and not good for the estimated 100,000 squatters who found refugee in the neighboring

hills. all lured by the promise of a new haiti that would spring from the 10 million cubic meters of republic. when the earthquake hit jimmy was working as a bell boy at one of haiti's most exclusive hotels, the montana. 200 people were killed there. he barely escaped. jimmy eventually ended up here. when you first got here, what did it--what was it like? >> it was like a desert. there was nothing, no water, no food. >> this was tents, right? no houses, it was tents. >> there were no houses. there were tiny tents, and one felt very isolated. >> the site was chosen as the model camp in part because it was slated to be the location of

a new industry park, a place where sorely needed manufacturing jobs would be created. three and a half years later that project remains nothing but a dream. the 40,000 people who live in the camps, and tens of thousands more living in shanties dotting the surrounding hills find themselves in a desert-like landscape with no jobs and a two-hour commute in traffic to get to the city. >> there was no economic foundation to the camp settlement itself. people who move there had had no means of earning a living. they were 23 kilometers outside of the town. >> reporter: richard poole of the aid organization, the american refugee committee was the camp's first manager. he arrived on site in april of 2010. >> it was seen as an alternative, an exciting prospect of building a new haiti. but as you know, as you're aware it didn't actually work out that way. >> reporter: it is just one

example of a larger failure to help haiti. alexander with the center of economic and policy research. >> when you hear the number that is thrown around, billions of dollars have gone to haiti, that tends not to be true. i think it's probably not much more than $1 billion that's effectively been spent. yes, i think in people's minds there has been more money that has gone to haiti than actually has so far. >> reporter: in his report called "breaking open the black box" he found that of the money allocated to haiti by the u.s. aid for international development, only 47% has gone to organizations. the rest has gone to ngos and u.s. contractors. >> if we're partnering with ngos and partnering with contractors we have brought in that are responding to our

requests for service providers, then they had better be held to this same accountability standards we would hold anyone to in the united states. >> reporter: congresswoman yvette clarke democrat from new york has some of the largest haitian communities in the u.s. >> we have to find out who was responsible, and hold them accountable. if this indicative of our missions overseas it's setting a very poor precedent. >> reporter: 30 kilometers is a settlement that is supposed to be part of the solution to the housing crisis here. it's one of the several settlements built by the money sent by u.s.a.i.d. so far the 156 homes are uninhabited. there are plans to move people

in in the fall. this town is the tip of the iceberg for what has gone wrong in haiti and a microcosm of what has happened to th the money. launched in 2010 the idea behind the new settlement program was to build 15,000 permanent houses. that would benefit between $75,000 and 90,000 displaced refugees. the total price tag at the time, $59 million. by 2012 the cost had spiraled to $95 million. usaid had to drop the number of houses built by more than 80%. instead of 15,000 houses, they would only build 2600. how did this happen? a report from the government accountability office blamed inaccurate cost estimates and asks from the haitian government. they wanted bigger rooms, electricity, water, flush toilets. then the foreign

contractors and their high overhead costs. >> there is no real control of costs built into this system. and so the money would go to the contractors. they will, you know, skim some of that money away, and then often they will then turn around and find subcontractors, and sometimes you can have several levels of contracting before you have implementation. so of course this b. enormously costly. >> usaid declined repeated requests for an interview. on its website it claims some progress in haiti. 65,000 households with temporary households or repairs. and 10,000 plots of land in an effort to get victims back in their homes, but that's a drop in the bucket for haiti's homeless. today aid agencies say approximately 300,000 people in

port-au-prince still live in deplorable conditions in camps. families crammed into tiny shelters made out of tarps and scraps of wood. this one called camp 54 sits in the middle class suburb. there are 5,000 people living on the streets here. the camp is run by mackenzie, a teacher. >> good morning. with help from his mother, mackenzie managed to build a school here with 700 children. mackenzie's school survived the earthquake but not the aftermath. >> we were forced to leave in order to turn the schoolyard into a parking lot. >> reporter: an u.n. agency rented the property from mackenzie's landlord, and his

school became a parking lot. so now he teaches in a tiny makeshift classroom. what makes it painful its virtually across the street from his old school. >> how does it feel to look at your school? >> yes, each time i look at it, each time, well, actually i try to avoid coming by here because it hurts. it hurts. it hurts deeply. >> i know what you're saying even though i don't speak your language. it makes me feel terrible. >> it makes a pain in my heart. >> mackenzie says he needs just $9,000 u.s. to build a new school for his kids. just $9,000 of the billions pledged to non-governmental organizations. the international aid has brought small pockets of development. the clinton-bush haiti fund

invested $2 million to build this five-star hotel, the oasis. the fund said the project created 200 jobs. but according to the u.n. haiti's unemployment has nearly doubled since the earthquake. it's well over 70%. jimmy tried unsuccessfully for two years to get a job at a hotel today he says he makes $6 a day on a good day driving a motorcycle taxi in port-au-prince. he's giving up on the home that he was promised. >> can i go inside the house? >> reporter: and he's trying to rebuild his family home destroyed in the earthquake. >> what kind of work are you doing on it? >> i'm working on the windows and installing cinder blocks to create the second floor.

>> so everything. >> reporter: for jimmy there is no sign of a new haiti emerging. like so many haitians, he's building back on his own. soledad o'brien, al jazeera, port-au-prince, haiti. >> so has haiti progressed at all? what is the country like today? we'll talk more tomorrow night with jonathan katz, author of "how the world came to save haiti and left behind a disaster." when we return africa's endangered black ryanio. could a group of texas hunters offer the best hope of saving them? >> every sunday night al jazeera america presents the best documentaries. a historic election >> we have 47% of our people who pay no income taxes... >> we take you behind the scenes >> i'm rick santorum, i'm running for president...

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>> next we consider sacrifice, and whether saving some members of the endangered species is better than saving others. >> the largest number remain

which has been praised for its rhino conservation efforts. now it's about to get a boost from a very unlikely source, a group of hunters in texas, who say they want to help the black rhino by killing one. this weekend the dallas safari club is auctioning a permit that allows the hunt of any aging male black african rhino,one that is too old to mate. >> the government issues five of these permits each year, but this will be the first to be auctioned outside of the government. the auction has been approved by the convention on international trade on endangered species.

still it doesn't sit well with some animal rights advocates. >> this hunt is amoral. it is a sad excuse for conservation. a doesn't to kill an endangered species, th the black rhino is n endangered species. >> there is a protest rally organized for saturday. but some protesters are taking things too far. >> they have threatened our lives, our families' lives, i don't think anyone should be subjected to these e-mails and threats. >> the club has alerted the fbi. samuel said this is probably just a distraction. >> the message is the life of the endangered species is on the line.

>> so what is the future? president of the humane seat of the united states join us tonight. i assume its no stretch to assume that your organization would be opposed to this. tell us why? >> well, joie there are many rare species in the world, and the black rhino is one of the rarest. because of poaching and habitat loss we should do everything we possibly can to protect them. the idea of linking a trophy hunting exercise to conservation may make sense to folks who are involved in trophy hunting, but a thousand rhinos have been poached in south africa in 2013. there are only five thousand black rhinos there are some white rhinos that have been poached part of that 1,000. we need to do what we can to protect them. >> but in this case we are aware in the permit. first of all it's a permit give by the namibian government. even if the club was not

involved in this, that permit would be given to someone. >> i think it creates an incentive. ifor them to start auctioning of permits for endangered species, where does it end? what if it for an orangutan? yes, money is needed to fight poaching, but why does it have to be linked to give someone an opportunity to shoot one of the rarest animals in the world. the humane society are spending a lot of money, but they're not linking their efforts to the idea of shoot- shooting one of e animals. >> from your point of view, look, they have a situation they clearly need money. this is a very expensive operation for them. what they offered is a permit to

kill an animal that elderly, past reproductive age. you know, if this is something that can bring them some resource that helps the other animals, why not? >> because i think a lot o--you know, i think it creates the incentive to create more of it, and it can get out of scroll especially with a regulatory agency. it has happened with the polar bears. what about cheetahs. no hunting of those endangered species. this is a departure from past policy, and i think its wrong and it sends the wrong message when we're asking people all over the world to protect the rhino but we're going to allow

some u.s. citizens to shoot a few of them because they want to mount their heads to the wall. >> in truth you're not over any international, so whatever the nimbians do or choose to do, you're over the u.s. >> yes, we have an active arm all over the world, but yes, we have an american standard. these are dallas-based members, and we think they should be contributing to conservation if they care about the rhino, and i'm sure many of them do, but why do they want to link their contribution by killing one of the rarest animals in the world. >> i do believe they say they would want to protect the greater-- >> they can do it. just give the money and the rhinos will be protected and there will be another one alive tomorrow. >> we'll see what the opportunity is for that. thanks for being here. >> joie, thank you. >> looking ahead to next week on

"america tonight." >> i think the misconception is anything with japanese writing on it is from the tsunami, but we're finding items with various languages korean, japan, the united states as well. >> does it amaze you how far this trash travels? >> especially the things we find, televisions, tires, it's amazing. >> it's classic in paradise. sorting through the monumental clean up effort in hawai'i next week on america tonight. and still to come, food for thought, the urban vertical guard that is giving airport food a whole new meaning. i'm phil tores. coming up this week on techknow. techknow's shini somara goes straight into the storm. winds of 150 miles per hour. but this twister is created in the lab. >> i'm at the national wind institute where they can actually recreate a tornado.

>> now science and technology take on mother nature. >> who wins? >> it's completely fine. >> techknow. sunday 7:30 eastern on al jazeera america. the inquiry had recommended better rail maintenance and

>> gardens winter and chicago's o'hare airport, you don't often hear those terms put together, especially in the dead of winter, especially this winter. but an innovative gardening technique is making it possible. "techknow" gives us the scoop on vertical farming and what it may mean for america's urban centers. >> reporter: for over 8,000 years we've been plowing dirt to grow our food. we got so good at it that 80% of the farming land is in use. we can expect another 3 billion people on earth to join us for dinner. on average, the united states produce travels 1500 miles losing valuable nutrients and taste along the way. how can we improve our food while continuing to feed the hungry masses? one is vertical farming.

>> i'm operator of monticio farms. >> producing a wide variety of crops. his farms deliver fresh produce to restaurant every day. >> it's a hydroponic system. there is a pump that pumps the water to the top where there is a shower cap, and then the water is misting and raining down and getting all the root systems. how about i show this to you. look how healthy and strong these root systems are here. there is water every 15 minutes is just washing over these roots. >> is it ready to be vested? >> this is ready to be fully harvested for a restaurant or you could just harvest it and

start eating it. >> delicious. >> i just landed here in o'hare international airport, and i'm starving. i heard there is a rumor that there is a vertical farm here that feeds ten thousand people every year. let's find it. it's like a secret garden in the middle of an airport. it's totally amazing. how many towers do you have. >> we have 26 towers in this garden. and each tower has 44 plants. we're growing lots and lots of different herbs. we've got basil, cilantro, and sage over here. we're providing produce for restaurants that operate at the airport. >> tower gardens are so new its hard to determine what kind of impact it will have on a nationwide scale. but here at this preschool kids have been eating from tower gardens for the last few months ♪ we like to eat, eat, eat

♪ kale from our garden >> the first preschool ever to have a tower garden farm. >> do you know what these are? >> tower garden. >> i want to know what every's favorite vegetable is. >> lettuce. >> i'm carrots. >> tomatoes. >> you're iyours is tomatoes. o you want to pick? arugula? one day we're at the supermarket. this is after the tower farms appeared. she grabbed a sugar pea and started eating it. i thought, wow, she's doing this. >> reporter: what do you think the global impact would be if every kid had access to these in school? >> i believe it would seriously shut down fast food as we know it. people would learn the value of eating healthy. >> eat more cauliflower, and you can catch "techknow" on sunday nights right here on al jazeera america. that's it for us on "america tonight." if you would like to comment on

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