Peter Haas: Haiti’s disaster of engineering | Video on TED.com “Haiti was not a natural disaster,” says TED Fellow Peter Haas: “It was a disaster of engineering.” As the country rebuilds after January’s deadly quake, are bad old building practices creating another ticking time bomb? Haas’s group, AIDG, is helping Haiti’s builders learn modern building …
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Assistant principals looking to adopt children from Haiti mired in delays as conditions worsen http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/assistant-principals-adopt-children-haiti-mired-delays-conditions-worsen-article-1.455702 BY BEN CHAPMAN Henry Renelus (r.) and Regina Tottenham are trying to adopt three Haitian children affected by the earthquake, but bureaucratic red tape has complicated and delayed the process. Seven months ago, two Bedford-Stuyvesant school administrators visited Haiti and were …
Samuel A. Worthington: Rebuilding Haiti in the Time of Cholera: “International NGOs are working flat out to try and contain the cholera outbreak in Haiti, which by November 22 has killed at least 1,344 people and threatens hundreds of thousands more already traumatized by January’s devastating earthquake. The epidemic adds yet another layer of misery …
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(Port au Prince, 20 November 2010): The response to last week’s UN-led appeal for 164 million USD to fight cholera has so far been insufficient for an adequate response to the epidemic, the Humanitarian Coordinator in Haiti said today.”While we are very grateful for the contributions received so far, both cash and in-kind, so far …
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Caroline Begein, 15, center, prayed with other students at the nonpublic Collège Classique Féminin in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. CreditMichael Appleton for The New York Times PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — In mid-October, when fresh-faced girls in starched uniforms skipped through the gates of the Collège Classique Féminin to start the first post-earthquake school year, their desire to seek …
