"On the eve of the third anniversary of the earthquake that devastated Haiti in January 2010, the country remains in a fragile state," a New York Times editorial states. "Billions of dollars in aid and lofty promises to 'build back better' have brought it only so far," but "[a] recent article by Deborah Sontag of the Times showed, in disheartening detail, the distance between hope and reality," the editorial continues, and recounts a number of challenges highlighted in the article, such as a slowing of flood aid and "the tendency of humanitarian aid organizations to go back to what they had been doing before the earthquake, in areas like sanitation, health, education and transportation."