Information About Haiti

A U.S. missionary should spend six months in prison for her failed attempt to remove 33 children from Haiti, a prosecutor said.

The pace for Haiti relief donations trails that of giving after the Sept. 11 terror attacks in 2001 and Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

Prosecutors asked for a six-month prison term for US missionary Laura Silsby, who was arrested trying to leave Haiti with 33 children following the devastating January earthquake that hit the country.

Haiti prosecutors seek 6 months in prison for US woman who tried to remove kids after quake

The judge who dropped kidnapping charges against Laura Silsby and nine other U.S. missionaries said Tuesday he did so because the children they were trying to take out of Haiti were all given over freely by their parents.

From April 18 to 24, six residents of Hatboro — a group made up of a construction worker, a school president, business and medical professionals — donated their time to rebuilding a devastated post-earthquake Haiti.

Balance Institute of Gymnastics in Burr Ridge will close its doors June 5 and 6 to pack 250,000 meals for the relief effort in Haiti. Balance Institute has joined forces with Feed My Starving Children and Notre Dame Men’s Club and Parish of Clarendon Hills to help with this cause.

Bangladesh will send its first all-female contingent of police officers on a United Nations peacekeeping mission, to help with reconstruction in quake-devastated Haiti, police said Thursday.

Manitoba woman Eva Giesbrecht feels cheated after heading to Haiti to do missionary work. “Every day, things would happen that didn’t make sense,” she said.

APPLETON Lawrence University student filmmakers Carolyn Armstrong and Stephen Anunson met musicians in Haiti who have played a part in helping their communities before and after the nations Jan. 12 earthquake.