Category: Earthquake/CHOLERA
Articles and image gallery from the 2010 earthquakes in Haiti
A MUST READ ON EARTHQUAKE
How Haitian Earthquake Relief Efforts Pulled Off a Huge Con Job, With the Help of Mainstream Media Money that was promised to provide “tens of…
Canada Warns Against Travel To Six Areas In This Caribbean Nation
By NAN Contributor News Americas, TORONTO, Canada, Mon. July 17, 2017: The Canadian government is warning nationals against travel to six areas in one Caribbean…
THIS IS A “MUST READ:”Secret aid worker: we learned the hard way that all funding has strings attached- Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
With more than 10 years’ experience in the humanitarian sector, working in logistics and supply chain, I have faced many challenges. The most frustrating by…
UN Assembly backs $40.5 million for Haiti cholera victims
By Edith M. Lederer | AP July 13 at 7:05 PM UNITED NATIONS — The General Assembly adopted a resolution Thursday backing the U.N. chief’s appeal to…
Bill Gates and Carlos Slim invest US$25 million in bioscience center in Texcoco, Mexico
Bill Gates and Carlos Slim (Notimex) The Carlos Slim Foundation and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation have together invested $25 million in a new…
UN Engineered Cholera Epidemic kills 30,000: Help Haitians Find Justice Today- Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
Did you know that: 1. In October 2010, United Nations troops introduced Vibrio cholerae to Haiti, infecting over one million men, women and children, killing…
With little money to combat cholera in Haiti, U.N. names new fundraising chief- Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
By Jacqueline Charles Miami Herald A former top State Department official and head of the United Nations’ World Food Program has been tapped to develop…
U.N. Brought Cholera to Haiti. Now It Is Fumbling Effort to Atone
Ny Times: By RICK GLADSTONEJUNE 26, 2017 A small clinic in Rendel overflowing with cholera patients last year. The disease was first brought to Haiti…
Over 50 and tired of rejection, I moved to Haiti to volunteer-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
After hundreds of job applications, I decided to bring my skills elsewhere Mon, Jun 26, 2017, 14:00 Anne Heffernan in Haiti ‘The children come by…
UN is breaking its promise to people of Haiti
CNN: Stephen Lewis is the former deputy executive director of UNICEF and the former Canadian ambassador to the United Nations. He co-directs AIDS-Free World, a…
The U.N. owes Haiti relief from cholera epidemic it introduced- Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
BY ADOLFO PÉREZ ESQUIVEL, JODY WILLIAMS, SHIRIN EBADI, RIGOBERTA MENCHÚ TUM, AND BETTY WILLIAMS Seven years after its soldiers sparked the world’s worst cholera epidemic…
UN: Josette Sheeran to raise funds for Haiti cholera victims
Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has appointed Josette Sheeran who formerly led the U.N. World Food Program as his special envoy for Haiti with a mandate to…
Haitian minors claim UN peacekeepers fathered their children
For more than a decade, the United Nations has established a peacekeeping mission in the country, one of the longest-running in the world. In October,…
The End of the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti
What It Means for the Country’s Future By Michael Deibert Under an ash gray sky threatening rain this past April, dozens of people in the…
UN Security Council visits Haiti ahead of peacekeeper departure
UN Security Council visits Haiti ahead of peacekeeper departure Port-au-Prince (AFP) – The United Nations Security Council began a visit to Haiti on Thursday to…
Cliff Avril makes good on sack promise, builds homes and school in Haiti
RENTON, Wash. — Defensive end Cliff Avril took a seat on the couch outside the Seattle Seahawks‘ locker room, started scrolling through his Instagram account…
FLASH – FLASH- FLASH REGISTER FOR TPS EXTENSION BEFORE JULY 25!!!!
(Photo: Submitted) CONNECTTWEETLINKEDINCOMMENTEMAILMORE Rockland advocates are warning Haitians who arrived after the devastating 2010 earthquake that they have just weeks to re-register for a federal program granting them the…
From luxury hotels to slums, Haiti puts used soap to good use
A Haitian program to recycle used soap bars from luxury hotels has proven a win-win-win proposition, reducing waste, helping fight water-borne disease and giving employees…
After canceling with TPS families, Haitian president tells recipients to ‘calm down’ – Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
By Jacqueline Charles jcharles@miamiherald.com When Evica learned she and 24 others had scored a meeting with Haiti President Jovenel Moïse, the Haitian migrant, who scrapes…
U.N. pushes to finance Haiti’s cholera cleanup with leftover peacekeeping dollars
By Jacqueline Charles jcharles@miamiherald.com With most U.N. member nations, including the United States, refusing to contribute toward a $400 million trust fund to eliminate an…