Haiti Homeless

Haiti Homeless Watch As Celebrities Win Medals

AP | JONATHAN M. KATZ | Posted 05.25.2011

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Haiti's president handed out medals to celebrities, aid-group directors and politicians for post-earthquake work Monday ...

World Cup Soccer Comes Live To Haiti's Homeless

Posted 05.25.2011

Millions were left homeless from the 7.0 earthquake that hit Haiti on January 12. Five months later, one and a half million are still on the streets, ...

Haiti Children Still Face Great Challenges, Nonprofit Report Says

Posted 05.25.2011

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

Hurricane Season In Haiti Begins Tomorrow, Hundreds Of Thousands Still Without Shelter

AP | BEN FOX | Posted 05.25.2011

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — A hurricane season predicted to be one of the wettest on record opens Tuesday in the Caribbean, where hundreds of thousa...

U.K.-Based Cube Cinema Offers Film Screenings For Children In Haiti

Posted 05.25.2011

In the months following the devastating earthquake in Haiti, relief organizations have been clamoring to provide basic necessities like food, clean wa...

Haiti Rains Complicate Aid Work, Flood Tent Towns

AP | MIKE MELIA | Posted 05.25.2011

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — One of the heaviest rainfalls since Haiti's Jan. 12 earthquake swamped homeless camps Friday, sweeping screaming residen...

200,000 Still Homeless In Haiti As Rainy Season Nears

Posted 05.25.2011

With the rainy season fast approaching, aid workers in Haiti are struggling to find solutions for the over 200,000 homeless residents living in areas ...

Haiti Rainy Season Approaches, Tent Camps And Aid Agencies Work To Minimize Damage

Time | Richard Mosse | Posted 05.25.2011

Almost immediately after the devastating January 12 earthquake, tent cities began to spring up all over Port-au-Prince. Camp Obama, home to approximat...

Ban Ki-moon Visits Haiti: Thousands Still Without Tents

AP | JONATHAN M. KATZ | Posted 05.25.2011

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon promised Haitians on Sunday that the world has not forgotten the quake-torn nation as...

Half Of Haitians In Need Have Received Shelter, Aid Agencies Say

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Aid agencies say they have delivered emergency shelter to half of the 1.3 million people in need following the Jan. 12 e...

Haitian Homeless Say They're Denied Aid From Police

AP | FRANK BAJAK | Posted 05.25.2011

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Homeless victims of Haiti's earthquake said Monday that police are halting deliveries of food and water to try to force ...

Haiti's Homeless Battered By Rain

AP | PAISLEY DODDS and JONATHAN M. KATZ | Posted 05.25.2011

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — A heavy downpour sent the throngs living beside Haiti's shattered national palace cowering under tarps Thursday as the r...

Organization Helps Anyone Send A Tent To Haiti

HuffPost | Victoria Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

As the rainy season quickly approaches in Haiti, hundreds of thousands are still in need of waterproof shelter. Haiti's president has asked for 200,...

Haiti's Homeless: Hundreds Of Thousands Need Tents

Posted 05.25.2011

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- As officials focused Sunday on the Herculean task of this nation's physical recovery -- clearing the wreckage and setting up ...

Haiti To Relocate 400,000 quake homeless

AP | MIKE MELIA and BEN FOX | Posted 05.25.2011

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — By boat or by bus, by bicycle and on foot along clogged and broken roads, earthquake survivors streamed away from this c...