Archive for the ‘Haitian News’ Category

Out of rubble of Haiti hotel, online family is born as Facebookers vow to leave no one behind

Thursday, September 2nd, 2010

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The desperate quest to find loved ones started just minutes after the earthquake, as cell phones rang unanswered from beneath the rubble of Haiti’s best hotel.

Out of rubble of Haiti hotel, online family is born as Facebookers vow to leave no one behind

Thursday, September 2nd, 2010

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The desperate quest to find loved ones started just minutes after the earthquake, as cell phones rang unanswered from beneath the rubble of Haiti’s best hotel.

Haiti quake a ‘game changer’ for corporate philanthropy

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

World Vision – USA As Haiti marks nearly eight months since its devastating earthquake and Chile sees the six-month mark since its own destructive quake, international aid agency World Vision has seen a notable increase …

Haiti quake a ‘game changer’ for corporate philanthropy

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

World Vision – USA As Haiti marks nearly eight months since its devastating earthquake and Chile sees the six-month mark since its own destructive quake, international aid agency World Vision has seen a notable increase …

In Haiti’s south, aid, health care hard to come by for quake survivors

Tuesday, August 31st, 2010

CAYES-JACMEL, Haiti (CNS) — Hyppolite Lappe, an agronomics student, stood in a long line at a health clinic run by American volunteers at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish. His elderly mother was by his side.

Rural Haiti: The issue is food

Monday, August 30th, 2010

Church World Service August 27, 2010 Petite Riviere de l’Artibonite, Haiti — It was nearing the end of another hot, sunny day near Petite Riviere in the northern department, or province, of Artibonite, and Arnold …

Haiti’s health

Monday, August 30th, 2010

After a deadly earthquake, Haiti faces another major threat — disease

One week in Haiti

Monday, August 30th, 2010

One Week in Haiti…six months after the earthquake By Susan Koenig While many of the Grand Traverse Region’s area residents were enjoying the 4th-of-July fireworks, I was accompanying Dr. Marty Arkin, M.D., en route to Fond des Blancs, Haiti, 70 miles southwest of the capital, Port au Prince, to participate in an eye clinic for rural Haitians.

Helping in Haiti

Monday, August 30th, 2010

Larry Feeler flew into Haiti not knowing what to expect. As his plane got closer to the ground, he saw something unusual dot the lush green and mountainous landscape. Feeler realized that the blue colors interspersed across the outskirts of…

Haiti, Pakistan disasters ‘of similar magnitude’

Monday, August 30th, 2010

The humanitarian disaster in Haiti and Pakistan is similar in magnitude, International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response Commissioner Kristalina Georgieva told the Brussels press on 27 August, just after her return from devastated Pakistan.