Researchers canvassed all departments in Haiti and surveyed 2,078 households. In general, the earthquake affected 10 percent of households or 210 of them. Notably, the households in the Ouest and Sud-Est Departments were the most harmed. This is in reference to physical damages to houses or property. Specifically, 14.1 percent of the households in […]
[iframe id=”https://www.youtube.com/embed/hW0sKvZQge8″] A catastrophic earthquake pummeled the island nation of Haiti in January, 2010, destroying more than 250,000 residences and 30,000 commercial buildings. The people of Haiti have experienced unfathomable hardship and yet, their spirit to rebuild their nation to be even better has inspired the entire world. At the center of these efforts is
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See on Scoop.it – 501c3 The United States spent $2.8 billion to help Haiti rebuild, but the results have been a disaster of a different kind. See on www.globalpost.com
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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
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
