Category: Earthquake/CHOLERA
Articles and image gallery from the 2010 earthquakes in Haiti
Le gouvernement fait enfin la lumière sur l’utilisation des fonds PetroCaribe
Le Nouvelliste | Publié le : 03 mars 2015 Après avoir été vertement critiqué, par l’opposition politique notamment, pour l’opacité avec laquelle les fonds PetroCaribe…
UN Cholera Plan for Haiti Must Choose Justice Over Charity
Graffiti on the street in Petionville, Haiti. Photo by Ben Depp, used by permission. In a recent article, Pedro Medrano Rojas, the UN Senior Coordinator…
State Department acknowledges issue with Clinton Foundation donation
Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (R) speaks as former U.S. President Bill Clinton looks on during the opening plenary session of the Clinton…
Simulation of clashes, of panic !
Thursday, the Risk Management National System and the National Carnival Committee organized a major simulation exercise (SIMEX), of clashes of panic and fire, 72 hours…
Sporting Kansas City signs Haiti national team defensive midfielder Soni Mustivar
By SAM McDOWELL The Kansas City Star Haiti’s Soni Mustivar (left) challenged Kosovo’s Ilir Azemi during an international friendly in Mitrovica, Kosovo on March 5,…
Haiti: Climbing towards education for all, step by step
Unicef.org The Mont Sinai school nestled in the hills. (c)UNICEF Haiti/2015/Walther I recently returned to the capital of Haiti, Port-au-Prince, from a three-day trip to…
Haiti Launches First-Ever Tourism Ads In Tri-State Area
NY CBS Local News PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (CBSNewYork/AP) — Haiti has begun what officials said was the first TV advertising campaign aimed at encouraging Americans to…
Filmmaker claims only a fraction of $9B pledged got to Haiti
Raoul Peck Photo: Getty Images By Richard Johnson Bad news for Sean Penn, Beyoncé, Wyclef Jean and all the other celeb humanitarians who have raised…
‘The Recyclers of Port-Au-Prince Toxic Dump Scavengers 5 Years After the Earthquake
(Photograph by Giles Clarke/Getty Images Reportage) In a 200-acre-plus dump 5 kilometers north of Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, hundreds of men, women and children scavenge day…
Miami doctors treat patients in Haiti via webcam
By SCOTT TRAVIS Miami Herald MIAMI – Five years after they treated earthquake victims in a Port-au-Prince hospital, some University of Miami physicians are again…
Visualizing Haiti’s new and improving health landscape-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
humanosphere.org 0 Children walk in a settlement north of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Life is still a struggle in Haiti, the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere,…
Preservationists fight to save Haiti’s gingerbread homes
In this Jan. 16, 2015 photo, a worker prepares a brick to be used in an earthquake damaged “gingerbread house,” during restoration work in Port-au-Prince,…
Five Years After: Cruising Up An Uncrowded Coast In Haiti
This is the last of several posts on Haiti as a developing tourist destination since the 2010 earthquake. For new hotel options and touring the capital Port-au-Prince,…
Protesters Gather at Clinton Foundation to Complain of ‘Missing Money’ from Haiti Recovery
Protesters gathered outside the Clinton Foundation in New York City to complain about “missing money” from the Haiti recovery effort from the 2010 earthquake: “New…
Somber gatherings mark 5th anniversary of Haiti earthquake
By Associated Press January 12 PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Somber Haitians gathered early Monday to remember the devastating January 2010 earthquake that killed relatives and neighbors…
Politics still holding country back
BY LAURENT LAMOTHE LaurentLamothe@gmail.com FIVE YEARS LATER: Downtown Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on December 29, 2014 (top) and January 14, 2010, two days after it was hit…
5 Years After Haiti’s Earthquake, Where Did The $13.5 Billion Go?
Richard Knox NPR After the earthquake in 2010, about 1,000 people were living in tents on the median of Highway 2, one of Haiti’s busiest…
Haiti’s new $83 million General Hospital still not built
By Jacqueline Charles jcharles@MiamiHerald.com PEDIATRIC CARE: Yno Bertrand keeps a watchful eye over her infant daughter Carme-Suze Philippe inside a tent doubling as the pediatric…
Building permanent housing remains Haiti’s biggest challenge following the 2010 earthquake
By Jacqueline Charles jcharles@MiamiHerald.com PATRICK FARRELL MIAMI HERALD STAFF For Islande Lima, the one-bedroom house that came with indoor plumbing and a second unfinished bedroom…