January 16, 2014
Categories: Economy, Haiti, Natural Disaster, United States
Tags: 2010 earthquake, farming, food program, Usaid
See on Scoop.it – 501c3 PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The idea that the delivery of American food aid needs an overhaul goes almost without question here in the capital of a nation still recovering from the devastating earthquake of four years ago. Alex Lizzappi‘s insight: The turning point in the debate over U.S. food aid […]
January 26, 2013
Tags: NGO
Despite billions in aid that were supposed to go to the Haitian people, hundreds of thousands are still homeless, living in shanty tent camps as the effects from the earthquake of Jan. 12, 2010, remain. The earthquake devastated Haiti in January 2010, killing, according to Oxfam International, 250,000 people and injuring another 300,000; 360,000 Haitians […]
January 9, 2013
Categories: Economy, Foreign Policy
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Haiti: Still waiting for recovery | The Economist. Three years after a devastating earthquake, the “Republic of NGOs” has become the country of the unemployed “HAITI is open for business”, Michel Martelly, the country’s president since May 2011, likes to proclaim. His government has backed up this talk by making it easier for foreigners to […]
January 4, 2013
Categories: Economy, Sovereignty
Tags: religion
The archbishop of Port-au-Prince Monsignor Guire Poulard Thursday denounced unemployment and corruption in Haiti at the time of the feast of Our Lady of the Assumption celebrated in the town of Petit-Goave. In a church filled with worshipers, pilgrims from elsewhere and in the presence of government officials, parliamentarians, political leaders, members of civil society, […]
August 19, 2012
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1 Dollar Poverty – Living in Haiti on $1 per day for 28 days – YouTube.