Haiti Children

Fighting Chronic Malnourishment In Rural Haiti

AP | TRENTON DANIEL | Posted 07.26.2011

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FURCY, Haiti — Where the road gave way to trails, the hunger-hunters parked their motorcycle and hiked for more than an hour up a mountain too s...

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In Post-Earthquake Haiti, Trafficking Of Children Grows

Posted 05.25.2011

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Following the massive earthquake in Haiti, which claimed 300,000 lives and left countless others in dire circumstances, Haitian and Dominican official...

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Britney Gengel's Story: Family To Build Haiti Orphanage In Honor Of Daughter

Posted 05.25.2011

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When the devastating Jan. 12 earthquake shook Port-au-Prince, Haiti, American college student Britney Gengel was among the lives lost in the rubble. T...

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Rebuilding Haiti: Helping One Child at a Time

Olivia Wilde | Posted 05.25.2011

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It has been more than six months since the earthquake in Haiti, and I still remember the moment when I heard what had happened. Sitting, stunned, on the set of "House," I felt my stomach plummet.

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Baby Landina Reunited With Mother, Marie Miracle Seignon, Six Months After Haitian Earthquake

MSNBC.com | Posted 05.25.2011

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LONDON -- A mother broke down in tears as she was reunited with her baby girl six months after the earthquake that devastated Haiti. "I had thought L...

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Undistributed Food Going To Waste In Haiti, CNN Reports

Posted 05.25.2011

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At an orphanage in Haiti, children sleep on the floor, and their pantry contains only a few cans of beans left. Though the children smile as they sit ...

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Haiti Children Abandoned By Desperate Parents

AP | RUKMINI CALLIMACHI | Posted 05.25.2011

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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Weeks after the 1-year-old was found in a dumpster, his father showed up. The baby wriggled in his cot, smiled and held...

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Chris Lomen Rollerskating 4,000 Miles For Haiti Charity

Posted 05.25.2011

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Chris Lomen is on a mission to raise money to rebuild schools in Haiti -- by rollerskating 4,000 miles. Local news station KARE reports Lomen is start...

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Kaley And Dan Shannon: Father And Daughter Team Start With Bake Sale, End Up Raising $80,000 For Haitian Students

Posted 05.25.2011

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When 15-year-old Chicago high school student Kaley Shannon heard about the 7.0 earthquake that ripped through the Haitian capital Jan. 12, she knew sh...

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Children Return To School In Haiti

Posted 05.25.2011

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Since the January 12 earthquake that ravaged the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, most of the area's schools have been closed, many too damaged to r...

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Haiti Children Still Face Great Challenges, Nonprofit Report Says

Posted 05.25.2011

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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (April 8, 2010) -- Three months after a 7-magnitude earthquake caused massive destruction in Haiti's capital and surrounding are...

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Reconstructing Haiti: The Role of the Diaspora in the Process Ahead

Arlene M. Roberts | Posted 05.25.2011

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There is that old saying, "It takes a village to raise a child." In the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti, the refrain can now be adapted to read,...

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Haitian Children Enter U.S. Schools, Work To Rebuild Lives

AP | CHRISTINE ARMARIO | Posted 05.25.2011

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MIRAMAR, Fla. — Some of the children arrived with no school records at all, some with only the clothes on their backs. A few still bear scrapes ...

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Parents Willingly Gave Children To US Baptists

AP | FRANK BAJAK | Posted 05.25.2011

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CALLEBAS, Haiti — Desperate parents in this struggling village perched above Haiti's earthquake-flattened capital said they gave their children ...

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Dear People of Haiti...

Scott Fifer | Posted 05.25.2011

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After giving to Haiti in record amounts, it's feared that much of the U.S. population will soon face donor fatigue. One sector of the population, however, is still eager to help -- children.

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Aid Workers: Haiti Orphans At Risk Of Being Stolen

Posted 05.25.2011

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UPDATE: Aid organizations, including UNICEF, Save the Children and the Red Cross, have begun registering at-risk children and are sheltering children ...

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Pennsylvania Church Group Tends To Haitian Orphans

Posted 05.25.2011

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A Pennsylvania church group who sponsored an orphanage in Haiti before the earthquake struck is working hard to protect the 12 orphans under their car...

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The Children of Haiti

Mark Shriver | Posted 05.25.2011

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Like we have learned in disasters from the tsunami in Southeast Asia to Hurricane Katrina, children are among the most vulnerable in any emergency but their needs are often forgotten.

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Haitian Human Rights Activist Rescued In Haiti

Posted 05.25.2011

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Bill Nathan was a child slave in Haiti. As a young man, he escaped, and built St. Joseph's Home for Boys, an orphanage that takes in former child slav...

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UNICEF Ambassador: How Can We Help Haiti's Orphans?

Posted 05.25.2011

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As half a million orphans face an uncertain future in Haiti in the wake of the earthquake, UNICEF Ambassador Martin Bell discussed immediate prioritie...

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Florida Families Adopt Haitian Orphans

Posted 05.25.2011

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Just a week after an earthquake devastated Haiti and added thousands to the more than half a million orphans in Haiti, five Haitian children landed in...

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Helping Haiti's Most Desperate Victims: Children

Harry Leibowitz | Posted 05.25.2011

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In natural disasters, children are the most vulnerable because they are open to predation by nefarious adults and they are most vulnerable to starvation and disease.

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