February 5, 2011
Categories: Access, Economy, Natural Disaster
Tags: 2010 earthquake, immigration, Miami
New Influx of Haitians, but Not Who Was Expected – NYTimes.com http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/16/education/16winerip.html?_r=0 Miami JAN. 15, 2011 Last year after the earthquake in Haiti, Alberto M. Carvalho, superintendent of the Miami-Dade schools — the fourth-biggest district in the nation, with 345,000 students — expected to enroll thousands and thousands of survivors arriving from the devastated country. He […]
December 6, 2010
Categories: Economy, Infrastructure
Tags: mobile banking
Cash is so 20th century. I’ve been experimenting with a 21st-century alternative, using money on a cellphone account to buy goods in shops. It’s a bit like using a credit card, but the system can also enable you to use your cellphone account to transfer money to individuals or companies domestically or internationally. And it’s […]
November 30, 2010
Categories: Economy
Tags: 2015 elections
Add it to Haiti’s list: Already reeling from a catastrophic earthquake, one of the world’s poorest economies, storms, a deadly cholera epidemic and unrest over U.N. peacekeepers, the Caribbean nation could now be on the edge of full-on political turmoil. The chaos in Sunday’s voting united most of the top presidential candidates against the president’s […]
November 24, 2010
Categories: Economy
Tags: microbanks, Uncategorized
Since the earthquake, microbanks have been working to keep credit flowing to businesses like this fabric store. CreditLeslie Thurman Léogâne, Haiti VENANTE LINO, a small-business owner who lost nearly everything in the devastating earthquake in January, stood in line here along with dozens of other impeccably dressed women, all waiting to pay the latest monthly […]
November 24, 2010
Categories: Economy, Infrastructure
Tags:
Training community organization members A major event compelled a major shift and greater effort in meeting the needs of a defined constituency. The earthquake increased the gap in services due to the magnitude of destruction it left behind. For the last five years, Lambi Fund has expanded its project with great focus on the environment, […]