Articles and image gallery from the 2010 earthquakes in Haiti
medicalxpress.com The cholera outbreak that hit Haiti after Hurricane Matthew slammed the island has been contained but persists due to lack of funding, according to the United Nations. An epidemic of the waterborne disease—which spread after a massive earthquake shook the nation in 2010—saw a resurgence after Matthew devastated the country in early October....
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The men strip off their clothes, wrap themselves in rags and plug their nostrils with tobacco to hide the stench. They squeeze into a cramped outhouse with a reeking pit to scoop buckets of human excrement with their bare hands. It’s just another night’s work for this four-man team of “bayakou”...
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(This article was written in 2014 but was never posted- blogs.pjstar.com) I want to tell you about an eighteen-month-old baby girl named Wilgesta who was rejected this past week for heart surgery. Wilgesta is an 18-month-old toddler in Haiti who was born with a hole in the ventricular wall of her heart which is...
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AUSTIN — Freedom Solar Power and ABC Home & Commercial Services teamed up to bring a 100 percent sustainable off-grid solar system to an orphanage in Haiti that does not have electricity. The orphanage was built by nonprofit A Child’s Hope. Raleigh Jenkins, president of ABC Home & Commercial Services in Houston, is the...
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Download PDF (308.06 KB) Main Points The CERF approved two project proposals worth just over US$ 3.5 million for rapid restoration of safe education services, protection assistance to most vulnerable evicted from temporary shelters and support to an estimated 30,000 people in areas of return. The three-month USD 139 million Flash Appeal to respond...
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The 2010 earthquake in Haiti was the deadliest quake ever recorded in the Western hemisphere, and nearly seven years later, Haitians are still feeling its after-effects in profound ways. One consequence of the disaster is man-made: the proliferation of foreign-run non-governmental organizations, or NGOs, in Haiti. These organizations, which arrived to help rebuild the...
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Mary Kate McGowan MARIETTA — After three years of planning and preliminary work, Marietta School District’s engineering pipeline’s project will now become a reality. Thursday afternoon, trucks delivered six shipping containers to Marietta High School that kindergarten to 12th-grade students will transform into a sustainable lab. “We’ll begin to now have a dedicated space...
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Delegates also Pass Text on Sport as Means to Promote Development, Peace GENERAL ASSEMBLY PLENARY SEVENTY-FIRST SESSION, 64TH MEETING (AM) GA/11878 16 DECEMBER 2016 Adopting two texts without a vote this morning, the General Assembly committed to implementing the Secretary-General’s newly presented approach to cholera in Haiti, with speakers welcoming the “long-anticipated” move and...
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from UN General Assembly Published on 12 Dec 2016 — View Original Download PDF (336.78 KB) Summary On 19 August 2016, the Secretary-General announced a new approach by the United Nations to cholera in Haiti. In his accompanying public statement, he indicated that he deeply regrets the terrible suffering the people of Haiti have...
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In this Dec. 2, 2016 photo, Adrienne St. Fume stands outside her shelter in the Delmas tent camp set up set up nearly seven years for people displaced by the 2010 earthquake, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The mother of three said she figured the shack built of plywood scraps and plastic tarp would be temporary...
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Civil rights attorney Ed Buckley has built more than 330 artesian wells and water reservoirs, providing water for nearly 350,000 people in Haiti since he founded the nonprofit Water Life Hope in 2005. He is pictured here with some of the region’s children at one of the newest wells. CONTRIBUTED Posted:...
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Haiti is still waiting for the final results of the November 20 presidential election, but time is running out. For more than a year, an electoral crisis has paralyzed the economic development of the country, which was hit by a devastating hurricane in early October. Haitians are still waiting for humanitarian aid, while relief...
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Report from Médecins Sans Frontières Published on 07 Dec 2016 — View Original Port-au-Prince – It has now been two months since Hurricane Matthew devastated southwest Haiti, and thousands of people are still without adequate food, safe drinking water and shelter. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is concerned about the deterioration of living conditions, particularly...
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BBC.Com UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has for the first time apologised to the people of Haiti for the organisation’s role in a deadly cholera outbreak. Haiti was cholera-free until it was brought to the country by Nepalese peacekeepers in 2010. Since then the acute bacterial disease has killed around 10,000 people. Mr Ban,...
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(Photo by Rob Carr/Getty Images) BLATIMORE (WJZ) — The Baltimore Ravens are continuing to support linebacker Elvis Dumervil’s efforts to rebuild Haiti. The team and owner Steve Bisciotti each donated $50,000 towards the relief effort after Hurricane Matthew killed more than 500 people and left more than 175,000 without homes back in October. “It just shows you the...
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UN news centre A shipment of cholera vaccines arrives in Haiti. Photo: UN/MINUSTAH/Logan Abassi 30 November 2016 – The response to cholera in Haiti will be a “long and thorough battle,” but the United Nations will stand by the Haitian people and authorities, Stéphane Dujarric, the Spokesman for the Secretary-General, said on the eve...
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Haitians voted for a new president this week and are hoping the winner can help speed the recovery. NPR’s Scott Simon speaks with Reuters correspondent Makini Brice. SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Haiti still reels from a tense presidential election that took place this week. After weeks of violent protests across the country, the results showed...
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This article reports the link found between the Swedish company Tetrapak (also know as Tetra Pak) with the Clinton Foundation, as it is indicated in a document newly released by the US State Department to the organization Judicial Watch, after a federal order (details down below). I am also reporting, based in document I found at the...
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Tribunereview.com Six years later, the Haiti cholera epidemic that killed more than 9,000 people is revisited in a new report that calls the United Nations’ refusal to accept responsibility a “disgrace.” The world body’s special rapporteur on poverty and human rights minces no words in blasting the U.N.’s ineffectual response as “morally unconscionable, legally...
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Photos By Sarah L. Voisin. Writer Nick Kirkpatrick November 17 Nicole Duce, 43, holds her 5-month-old daughter, Fridzadora Loga, in the badly hit town of Port-Salut, Haiti. Eight people live in the shack, which was constructed after the hurricane destroyed their original home. Two children in the family were killed in the storm. (Sarah...
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