Category: Earthquake/CHOLERA
Articles and image gallery from the 2010 earthquakes in Haiti
Haiti’s religious ground rumbles-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
Growth of evangelicals, Protestants could have deep political influence on a rebuilding nation. By Kenneth Kidd PETIONVILLE, HAITI–The iron gates that lead from the small…
Wyclef Jean’s Yele Haiti Foundation under fiscal scrutiny
By Susan Kinzie Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, January 16, 2010 By Friday morning, just days after the earthquake hit, Wyclef Jean’s Yele Haiti Foundation…
Absence of U.S. flag in Haiti sparks controversy -Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
By Alan Gomez and Oren Dorell, USA TODAY The many nations helping Haiti recover from the devastating earthquake that struck there have set up their…
Haiti’s Do-It-Yourself Recovery-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
By LAWRENCE DOWNES Port-au-Prince, Haiti The unwritten rules of driving in the capital — just tap the horn, keep your cool, be polite — keep…
The art of survival in Haiti-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
Rum and refugees apart, Haiti’s biggest export is art — vibrant, fantastical, brilliantly coloured paintings full of detail and symbolism, the best of which fetch…
Haitian parents with U.S.-born children are in a bind 1,300 quake survivors fear to return to devastated nation, but their time here is running out-Added COMMETNARY By Haitian-Truth
MIAMI Of the thousands of Haitian nationals airlifted to America after the devastating Jan. 12 earthquake, some have an extra tie to this nation: U.S.-born…
International adoption delayed for a Haitian orphan
By Kathie Klarreich Correspondent posted March 14, 2010 at 10:05 am EDT Pierre Payen, Haiti — Chris and Leslie Rollings knew, when they took tiny…
UN chief sees dangers up-close in Haiti quake camp-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is in Haiti to investigate a shortage of shelter and increased violence in Haiti’s teeming earthquake camps. Ban’s…
Remains Found 2 Months After Haiti Quake-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
Aid Groups Say Gov’t Slow to Relocate Those in Squalid Camps; Several Hurt in Building Collapse (CBS/AP) Haitian survivors on Friday marked the two-month anniversary…
In Haiti, funerals become eulogies for a nation-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
BY JACQUELINE CHARLES jcharles@MiamiHerald.com LEOGANE, Haiti — Two separate funeral bands file past one another in concurrent ceremonies for the different set of mourners, whose…
Haitian recovery takes root in field of skepticism-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — By any human standard, the sprawling tent city across from the collapsed National Palace in the Haitian capital remains a living hell….
Called from the suburbs to a Haitian mountaintop
By ADAM GELLER AP National Writer KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Odette. Benita. Valancia. Atanie. Each Sunday morning, members of White Stone Church spread photos of the…
Old and poor in Haiti suffer mightily after the quake-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
By William Booth Saturday, March 13, 2010 PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI — It was always hard to be old in Haiti, but after the earthquake, to be…
Secretary Clinton to Host Appreciation Event for Haiti Earthquake Task Force Volunteers
Office of the Spokesman Washington, DC March 12, 2010 Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will deliver remarks to Haiti earthquake task force volunteers to…
Lawmakers Question Direct U.S. Aid to Haiti
Manuel Quinones, CNC News Now that House and Senate lawmakers have approved measures calling for the elimination of Haiti’s foreign debts, they face a more…
Released aid workers in Haiti are Czech, Belgian-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
PRAGUE — An official says two European aid workers kidnapped in Haiti and later released were from the Czech Republic and Belgium. Lucia Duricova of…
Lack of doctors, rehab threaten Haitians’ recovery
Haitians injured in the January earthquake face leaving hospitals for camps that lackrehabilitation facilities. BY FRANCES ROBLES frobles@MiamiHerald.com FOND PARISIEN, Haiti — In the turmoil…
Kidnapping raises risks for aid workers in Haiti
PORT-AU-PRINCE — The first kidnappings of aid workers in Haiti jolted the thousands-strong foreign relief operation in the quake-torn nation Thursday, adding to the staggering…
Lost in the ruins: Haiti’s best and brightest
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — They kept the books, had the training and fixed the computers. They were the educated few of Haiti, an up-and-coming generation of…
Haitian president drops the ball on addressing corruption concerns
RENÉ PRÉVAL, president of Haiti, has been in Washington discussing how to help his earthquake-ravaged country ahead of a major international donors conference this month….