Category: Earthquake/CHOLERA
Articles and image gallery from the 2010 earthquakes in Haiti
Schools, Homes in Haiti Going Up Fast
While rebuilding is slow, Food for the Poor is building homes and schools fast By Hank Tester NBC Miami: They are going up quick. Food…
Film tells story of rescue, aid efforts in Haiti
The giant Imax screen is an ideal place to see a lot of epic images, from eye-popping Hollywood blockbusters to scenic documentaries about people surfing…
More Stupidity from the Green Left Weekly Haiti: US embassy knew of earthquake vulnerability-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
Sunday, June 19, 2011 By Dan Coughlin US officials in Haiti warned that the Haitian government would be unable to handle a catastrophic earthquake five…
US deported 375 Haitians in 2010 fiscal year
The Associated Press MIAMI — U.S. immigration authorities have released their figures on deportations to Haiti in the months before the devastating 2010 earthquake. The…
Plan to expel illegal immigrants will backfire
By Andres Oppenheimer aoppenheimer@MiamiHerald.com Republicans in Congress have launched a major offensive to force several million undocumented immigrants to leave the United States with a…
The pressing need for more midwives in Haiti
Jun 21, 2011 11:09 AM In the first detailed survey of midwifery in over thirty years, a new report published by the United Nations Population…
Haiti: MSF Reorganizes Post-Earthquake Medical Services
Doctors Without Borders: Haiti 2011 © Yann Libessart/MSF Patients wait for the physiotherapy in MSF’s new hospital in the Drouillard neighborhood of Port-au-Prince. Thirty-five seconds. That’s…
MINUSTAH HAS WARNED MARTELLY TO “BE PREPARED.”
June 20, 2011 THE UN HAS STARTED TO WITHDRAW TROOPS AND MARTELLY WAS EXPECTED TO REBUILD THE MILITARY…TO DATE, MARTELLY HAS DONE NOTHING. WAKE UP…
This45: Hal Niedzviecki on Haitian-Canadian novelist Dany Laferrière
By Hal Niedzviecki Dany Laferrière. Photo by Karen Bambonye. It seems strange to be given the task of “introducing” a man who has written more…
OpEdNews Writer Nienaber Called it: Surge in Haiti Cholera Cases Happening
By Mac McKinney: Cholera Treatment Center in Mirebalais, Haiti, from an earlier Nienaber article (source) In this OpEdNews/LA Progressive article back in February, Georgianne Nienaber,…
Face off over condoms at schools-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
June 20 2011 at 11:08am By Bianca Capazorio and Lyse Comins: A mooted government plan to distribute free condoms at schools has caused a heated…
Cholera control center funded by S. Korea, Canada opens in Haiti
TMC news.com: Santo Domingo, Jun 19, 2011 (EFE via COMTEX) — The Dominican Churches Social Service, or SSID, has opened a Cholera Attention Center in…
Defender Lescinel Jean-Francois joins Sheffield United
BBC: Former Swindon Town defender Lescinel Jean-Francois has joined Sheffield United on a two-year deal. The 24-year-old Haiti international’s contract at Swindon expired this summer…
Haiti’s Horrendous Teenage Prostitution Problem
With fewer shelters, more girls—many orphans from the quake—have no choice but to have sex just to scrape by. Lisa Armstrong reports on their brutal…
Arcade Fire in Haiti: ‘So much joy …’
For Régine Chassagne of Arcade Fire, Haiti’s struggle to cope with last year’s earthquake has been poignant – her parents fled the island under Baby…
PERE CICO’S AFE NEG COMBITE LAUNCHES PROJECTS
June 17, 2011 Pere Cico’s Kenscoff-based Afe Neg Combite has launched a number of projects for people in the Kenscoff area. Included are 6 primary…
WikiLeaks Haiti: The Post-Quake ‘Gold Rush’ for Reconstruction Contracts
The Nation:Disaster capitalists were flocking to Haiti in a “gold rush” for contracts to rebuild the country after the January 12, 2010, earthquake, according to…
Recycling hotel soap to save lives
By Ebonne Ruffins, CNN “By Ebonne Ruffins, CNN”; CNN Hero: Derreck Kayongo STORY HIGHLIGHTS CNN Hero Derreck Kayongo, a Uganda native, started the Global Soap…
Clinton launches Haiti housing project-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
Reconstruction efforts; Will bring new industries, thousands of jobs to country: former U.S. president. By RENÉ BRUEMMER, The Gazette Former United States president and special…
Vaccine summit raises $4 billion, but will it be wasted?
(CBS/AP) “For the first time in history, children in developing countries will receive the same vaccines against diarrhea and pneumonia as children in rich countries.”…