Articles and image gallery from the 2010 earthquakes in Haiti
By SCOTT TRAVIS Miami Herald MIAMI – Five years after they treated earthquake victims in a Port-au-Prince hospital, some University of Miami physicians are again assisting Haitian patients, now from 1,100 miles away. The University of Miami Miller School of Medicine has launched a telemedicine program that provides doctors at a Haiti hospital with...
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humanosphere.org 0 Children walk in a settlement north of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Life is still a struggle in Haiti, the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere, but such settlements offer a measure of freedom and improved living conditions compared to the city. AP By Lauren Hashiguchi, special to Humanosphere Five years after a massive earthquake...
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In this Jan. 16, 2015 photo, a worker prepares a brick to be used in an earthquake damaged “gingerbread house,” during restoration work in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Local craftsmen working for the Haitian nonprofit Knowledge & Freedom Foundation, or FOKAL, are learning how to restore the homes to their former splendor. Since masonry and carpentry...
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This is the last of several posts on Haiti as a developing tourist destination since the 2010 earthquake. For new hotel options and touring the capital Port-au-Prince, see last week’s earlier posts here, here and here. The secret beach, or hidden resort are tropes of the travel world. It’s a safe bet to say, however, that a stretch of Haiti’s coast...
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Protesters gathered outside the Clinton Foundation in New York City to complain about “missing money” from the Haiti recovery effort from the 2010 earthquake: “New Yorkers with roots in Haiti say the picture isn’t so rosy,” said the NY1 anchor. The protesters claimed that the $10 billion meant to help...
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By Associated Press January 12 PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Somber Haitians gathered early Monday to remember the devastating January 2010 earthquake that killed relatives and neighbors while shattering much of the overcrowded capital and surrounding area in one of the worst natural disasters of modern times. Hundreds of women in white dresses and men in...
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Michael Collins-January 11, 2015 (updated jan 12) AP News Photo 2010
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BY LAURENT LAMOTHE LaurentLamothe@gmail.com FIVE YEARS LATER: Downtown Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on December 29, 2014 (top) and January 14, 2010, two days after it was hit by the eartkquake (bottom). STF AFP/Getty Images Five years ago on Jan. 12, 2010, the worst earthquake in its history struck Haiti. More than 200,000 of my compatriots died...
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Richard Knox NPR After the earthquake in 2010, about 1,000 people were living in tents on the median of Highway 2, one of Haiti’s busiest roads. Five years later, tens of thousands of people in Port-au-Prince still live in tents and other temporary housing. David Gilkey/NPR Haiti’s magnitude 7.0 earthquake of Jan. 12, 2010,...
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By Jacqueline Charles jcharles@MiamiHerald.com PEDIATRIC CARE: Yno Bertrand keeps a watchful eye over her infant daughter Carme-Suze Philippe inside a tent doubling as the pediatric ward of Haiti’s main and largest public hospital in Port-au-Prince, the Hospital of the State University of Haiti. PATRICK FARRELL MIAMI HERALD STAFF PORT-AU-PRINCE In the aftermath of the...
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