Articles and image gallery from the 2010 earthquakes in Haiti
Graffiti on the street in Petionville, Haiti. Photo by Ben Depp, used by permission. In a recent article, Pedro Medrano Rojas, the UN Senior Coordinator for Cholera Response in Haiti, called on the international community to change course on its “historic lack of attention to water and sanitation” in Haiti by increasing support for...
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Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (R) speaks as former U.S. President Bill Clinton looks on during the opening plenary session of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI), on Sept. 22, 2014 in New York City. Photo by John Moore/Getty By Alex Seitz-Wald The State Department acknowledged Thursday that the Clinton Foundation failed to...
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Thursday, the Risk Management National System and the National Carnival Committee organized a major simulation exercise (SIMEX), of clashes of panic and fire, 72 hours before the start of the festivities of the three fat days of the national carnival. This extensive training, which took place on part of the site the event to...
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By SAM McDOWELL The Kansas City Star Haiti’s Soni Mustivar (left) challenged Kosovo’s Ilir Azemi during an international friendly in Mitrovica, Kosovo on March 5, 2014. Visar Kryeziu The Associated Press When Sporting Kansas City departs Sunday for the second leg of its preseason training camp in Tucson, Ariz., its roster will be a...
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Unicef.org The Mont Sinai school nestled in the hills. (c)UNICEF Haiti/2015/Walther I recently returned to the capital of Haiti, Port-au-Prince, from a three-day trip to the South East of Haiti, which included six hours of hiking and 10 hours on the road. The reason for this trip to Port Salut was to inaugurate the...
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NY CBS Local News PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (CBSNewYork/AP) — Haiti has begun what officials said was the first TV advertising campaign aimed at encouraging Americans to vacation in the poor Caribbean country. The ads are directed at residents of the Tri-State Area. The country’s tourism ministry and a U.S. cable provider have developed TV spots and...
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Raoul Peck Photo: Getty Images By Richard Johnson Bad news for Sean Penn, Beyoncé, Wyclef Jean and all the other celeb humanitarians who have raised billions of dollars trying to rebuild Haiti. It didn’t work. So says Haitian filmmaker Raoul Peck, who screened his documentary, “Fatal Assistance,” last week in Harlem. The Maysles Documentary...
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(Photograph by Giles Clarke/Getty Images Reportage) In a 200-acre-plus dump 5 kilometers north of Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, hundreds of men, women and children scavenge day and night through the burning wasteland. They earn $12 to $15 a day — on a good day — for recycling plastics as well as clothing, household items and...
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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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