In Haiti, store signs are symbols or photographs, not words. That's because few Haitians read anything except the Bible.
Dr. Jane Aronson | Posted 05.27.2012
I am back in Haiti and very happy to be here. People are friendly and open although they are constantly by challenged poverty and lack of opportunity. There is hope here, and I'm not sure why.
Dr. Jane Aronson | Posted 03.26.2012
Since Haiti's devastating earthquake two years ago, WWO has been in the process of adapting our current program models to fit the needs of children who have been affected by the horrific tragedy.
AP | By TRENTON DANIEL | Posted 02.22.2012
GRAND GOAVE, Haiti -- Three hours before Britney Gengel died in the massive earthquake that killed hundreds of thousands in Haiti two years ago, she s...
Dr. Jane Aronson | Posted 09.14.2011
There are so many things to say about Monley, a 6-year-old Haitian orphan, and his extended family. I saw their life up close and wanted to share some of what I learned so that you might understand the complicated life they lead.
Jennifer Morgan | Posted 05.25.2011
One year later we've managed to reunify more than 1300 children with their families, and one year later I continue to be deeply impressed with the courage displayed by Haiti's youngest citizens.
Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011
Given the earthquake and now epidemic, it brings much holiday cheer that the stunning bag generates funds specifically for our kids in Haiti!
Posted 05.25.2011
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...
MSNBC.com | Posted 05.25.2011
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...
AP | DAVID CRARY | Posted 05.25.2011
Six months after a chaotic airlift to the United States, 12 Haitian children remain in a Roman Catholic institution near Pittsburgh, their fate in lim...
Heather Paul | Posted 05.25.2011
How could the Haitian children shout and talk excitedly after they'd lost everything? They remained at SOS Children's Village because no family member had claimed them. How cruel and unfair that they had been dealt such a blow.
AP | RUKMINI CALLIMACHI | Posted 05.25.2011
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Time was up, not 10 minutes into the visit. The social worker went to pull the 3-year-old orphan out of the arms of the ...
AP | ADAM GELLER | Posted 05.25.2011
EDITOR'S NOTE – They were "our girls" – the children of a Haitian orphanage, taken to heart by a Tennessee church. But then an earthquake ...
Dana Sachs | Posted 05.25.2011
When it comes to international adoption, the true humanitarian work is performed through the slow and deliberate attention experienced professionals give to each child's case, not through hasty rescues performed by people trying to act as Good Samaritans.
AP | FRANK BAJAK | Posted 05.25.2011
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Eight American missionaries were freed from a Haitian jail and left for Miami Wednesday, nearly three weeks after being ...
Posted 05.25.2011
The 26 orphans of Haiti's Angel House were lucky to escape the Jan. 12 earthquake entirely unharmed. But thanks to some quick thinking by orphanage ad...
Posted 05.25.2011
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...
Posted 05.25.2011
UPDATE: Aid organizations, including UNICEF, Save the Children and the Red Cross, have begun registering at-risk children and are sheltering children ...
Mark Shriver | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
ABC News | Posted 05.25.2011
A planeload of Haitian orphans were evacuated from the quake shattered capital today, landing in chilly Pittsburgh today to a warm welcome....
Posted 05.25.2011
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...
Posted 05.25.2011
As half a million orphans face an uncertain future in Haiti in the wake of the earthquake, UNICEF Ambassador Martin Bell discussed immediate prioritie...
Dr. Jane Aronson | Posted 04.23.2012