Articles and image gallery from the 2010 earthquakes in Haiti
BY- buildingaschool Haiti has launched a vaccination campaign against tetanus and the rotavirus that causes severe, fatal diarrhea in children under the age of 5. The campaign comes a year after the Michel Martelly administration launched a similar campaign against several childhood diseases, including measles and polio. Newly appointed director of the Pan American...
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A detailed drawing of the slave ship Brookes, showing how 482 people were to be packed onto the decks. The detailed plans and cross sectional drawing of the slave ship Brookes was distributed by the Abolitionist Society in England as part of their campaign against the slave trade, and dates from 1789. Guest post...
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Source: Haiti: Relief and Reconstruction Watch In an April 10 press release, DynCorp International announced that the U.S. Department of State Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) had awarded the company with a $48.6 million contract. The purpose of the contract is to “recruit and support up to 100 UNPOL and...
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Above: Port-au-Prince (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff Taiwan is launching a disaster mitigation project in Haiti and the Dominican Republic, in partnership with the Pan-American Development Foundation. The six-month project will examine weaknesses in the environment in both countries which represent “imminent threats to the people of the community,” according to a...
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The International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, organized in Port-au-Prince from 22 to 26 April 2013, a 5-days training program, for 19 bankers in Haiti, from 3 banks, in order to help them to develop their trade finance operations, reduce risks and better serve small and medium enterprises, which...
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Canadian police officer fled Haiti following alleged sexual assault Human rights groups in Haiti are demanding the United Nations be held more accountable after a Canadian police officer who was suspected of sexually assaulting a Haitian woman then left the country. The man was one of more than 80 Canadian police officers serving with...
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Librado Romero/The New York Times DOUBLE LIFE Yves Deshommes’s home in Brooklyn is full of Haitian art that he sells to raise money for charity. By CELIA McGEE Except for its location across from Carnegie Hall, the lobby of 200 West 57th Street seemingly has no reason be filled with the sound of music...
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Parisian street artist C215 has been traveling again, this time to Port Au Prince in Haiti, where he drew many curious audiences during the week-long visit to watch him create his evocative stencil portraits on columns, in doorways, along narrow walkways, on rooftops, and in streets. “It was a very strong experience for me...
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A Haitian tap tap MichelleWalz under a CC Licence Port au Prince saps energy: the heat, the noise and the people. At the market it’s difficult to know whether there are more buyers or sellers. Every few yards, women and men stand in groups. Each group is selling the same items: onions, bags, pens, avocados....
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Source: alertnet // Anastasia Moloney Haitians living in a camp for people displaced by the January 2010 earthquake look on after tents were vandalised in Port-au-Prince, Feb. 15, 2013. REUTERS/Swoan Parker By Anastasia Moloney BOGOTA (AlertNet) – More than three years after Haiti’s devastating earthquake, shortages of foreign aid and housing are hampering efforts...
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