While covering the Dalai Lama’s recent appearances in New York City, I heard the Nobel Peace laureate twice praise the international response to the horrific January earthquake in Haiti as an example of humanity’s progress. Such a massive show of global assistance and solidarity — one sign of the world’s increased interdependence — would...
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Other than emotionally, the downpours do no have an effect upon me other than to flood the yard and leak through the roof in a few places; For those in the streets and the temporary camps it is much different. For the last five or six nights we have been deluged!! The streets in...
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Sitting alongside a pool of water, the women wash their clothes in oversized-tin basins. But the sound of water sloshing against stone washboards is drowned out by the monstrous dump trucks transporting tons of rubble from the Jan. 12 earthquake. Rivière Grise, stretching from La Viste national park, to the south of Port-au-Prince, to...
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By KRISTEN GELINEAU (AP) – 9 hours ago SYDNEY — The U.N.’s humanitarian chief acknowledged frustration Sunday with the slow progress in providing shelter to the 1.5 million Haitians still homeless because of the Jan. 12 earthquake, and said a large amount of work needs to be done as the hurricane season bears down...
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June 4, 2010 By G. Young Our statement on the protests in Haiti. On May 13, Monsanto announced a donation of conventional corn and vegetable seeds to farmers in Haiti, to help increase food production and aid long-term earthquake recovery. A small group, utilizing online media, protested. At first they claimed Monsanto was donating...
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