One of Haiti’s needs is low cost housing now in great numbers. Taiwanese experts opened a school in Marmelade, (Beauche) Haiti. Rene Preval, Haiti’s president was born in Marmelade and was instrumental in starting a bamboo (artelier) school there. The Taiwanese experts taught students to make bamboo furniture and three prototype houses. The bamboo processing...
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28 May 2010 – Amelia Shaw lost colleagues and friends in an instant on 12 January when an earthquake toppled the headquarters of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Haiti. Now she and other UN staffers are completing an ambitious project that they hope will go some way to memorializing the event – both...
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by Geoff Olson photos by Elaine Briere David Putt, a retired agrologist/geologist from Nelson, BC, stands before a display of artwork from Port-au-Prince. The semi-abstract masks, hammered from oil drums, seem to radiate a comic, defiant spirit. “Arts are alive and well everywhere, and they’re a part of people’s daily lives,” says the grey-haired,...
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Rene Preval avait planifie avec Rene Momplaisir et Jean Philippe Jean Baptiste alias Samba Boukman un montage pour ficeler les membres de l’opposition et maitriser les manifestations. Les deux comperes proches du president Momplaisir et Boukman dans le cadre de ce montage devaient tirer sur la maison du president en vue de provoquer des...
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