March 18th, 2010
Former U.S. presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush will visit Haiti on Monday to discuss the impoverished country’s long-term recovery after a January earthquake killed hundreds of thousands of people.
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March 17th, 2010
PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI — The United Nations and the Haitian government are poised to begin an intense public awareness campaign in the capital city, part of an urgent effort to move hundreds of thousands of people left homeless by the Jan. 12 earthquake out of harm’s way before the rain and flood…
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March 17th, 2010
mmit Medical Group opens an art show on its campus at 1 Diamond Hill Road, Berkeley Heights, on Friday, April 16, with a reception free to the public, 5 to 8 p.m. “Hope Springs Eternal: A Rebirth of Haiti Through Art,” is a fundraiser that features paintings by Haitian-born artists now living in the U.S. A portion of the proceeds will be donated for Haitian relief through the LANBI Center for …
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March 17th, 2010
WASHINGTON TWP. – The January earthquake in Haiti claimed hundreds of thousands of victims and it also destroyed much of the island’s rich, native artwork.
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March 17th, 2010
Neenah family who spent three months in Haiti returns home.
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March 17th, 2010
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — When the young woman needed to use the toilet, she went out into the darkened tent camp and was attacked by three men.
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March 17th, 2010
The U.N. regional assessor for natural disasters says Haiti needs $11.5 billion over three years to rebuild and transform the hemisphere’s poorest nation after its catastrophic earthquake.
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March 17th, 2010
Many of Haiti’s museums were damaged in the country’s earthquake but an exhibition scheduled for 2012 hopes to revive the fortunes of the country’s creators.
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March 17th, 2010
Prisoners who fled Haiti’s central jail when the earthquake struck had been enduring some of the worst conditions imaginable, the BBC’s Mark Doyle reports.
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March 17th, 2010
$70 million port development in Port-au-Prince planned Haiti’s WIN Group and Miami-based Santé Holding Corp. on Tuesday announced a $70 million project to redevelop Terminal Varreux, Haiti’s largest privately-owned shipping terminal and port facility.
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This week marked six months since the earthquake. According to President Preval, it also marked the week that the emergency phase ended and reconstruction began. Yet at the same time residents of the Corrail Cesselesse camp were struggling with the consequences of a rain storm that destroyed up to 300 tents and caused 1,700 to seek emergency shelter. With the rainy season underway, the situation is precarious for the displaced. Security, especially for women and children, is still a major concern. Is this an emergency operation, a reconstruction effort, or both?
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Haiti Innovation News/Actualités | Bryan Schaaf