Haiti Reconstruction

Two Years Later -- Reimagining Haiti

Maria Bello | Posted 03.13.2012

Read More: Haiti Anniversary, Haitiblog, Haiti Earthquake Relief, Haiti Reconstruction, Haiti Recovery, Haiti Earthquake, Haiti Relief Efforts, Haiti Two Years Later, Impact News

Haiti is not just "rebuilding" with cement and muscle. Haiti is "reimagining" a nation, with a bold vision and collective dream.

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Home: From Displacement Camps to Community in Haiti

Beverly Bell | Posted 01.04.2012

Read More: International Development, Housing, Haiti, Haiti Earthquake, Haiti Reconstruction, Haiti Aid, Internally Displaced People, World News

As 2012 begins, a growing movement of displaced people and their allies in Haiti is actively claiming the right to housing.

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Wings Over Haiti Takes Flight

Lee Schneider | Posted 01.11.2012

Read More: Disaster Relief, Haiti Reconstruction, Haiti Relief, Help Haiti Schools, Haiti Recovery, Haiti Recovery Effort, Haiti Rebuilding Schools, Impact News

Wings Over Haiti is raising $70,000 to build a new self-sustaining solar-powered school that will be larger, with room to store books, supplies, medicine, and room for a garden.

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Build On What They Have: Ownership and Development in Haiti

Chad W. Bissonnette | Posted 10.11.2011

Read More: Haiti Reconstruction, Global Poverty, International Development, Humanitarian Aid, Haiti, Impact News

Haiti must be managed by Haitians. As friends of Haiti, we can have a role -- an important role in fact -- but it must be a supportive role and not a managerial role.

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Haiti's Leaders Might Extend Controversial Recovery Panel's Mandate

AP | td/kfk | Posted 09.19.2011

Read More: Haiti Earthquake, Haiti Reconstruction, Haiti Relief, Michel Martelly, Haiti Recovery Commission, Haiti, Impact News

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Haitian President Michel Martelly will ask a reconstruction commission to extend its mandate a year. A government offic...

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Regine Barjon at Senate Hearing: "The People of Haiti Know What They Want"

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 08.27.2011

Read More: Haiti Reconstruction, Major Joseph Bernadel, Haiti, Bill Clinton, Haiti Earthquake, Bumper's Amendment, Save the Children, Regine Barjon, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Michel Martelly, Ben Cardin, Robert Menendez, Impact News

Dual citizenship will not solve these problems when Haiti needs the basic human rights of clean water, sustainable jobs and infrastructure.

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Is Haiti Poor? Its People Respond

Beverly Bell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Haiti Rich, Haiti Economy, Haiti Wealth, Haiti Poverty, Haiti Poor, Haiti National Budget, Help Haiti, Haiti Earthquake, Haiti Reconstruction, Haiti Aid, Haiti, Haiti News, Impact News

That depends on how you define poverty and wealth. We have solidarity, community and other riches, too, like people who work hard for the global economy. But it's hard for a little country to rise up, especially in our case.

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In Haiti, Land Reform as a Pillar of Reconstruction

Beverly Bell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Haiti Land Redistribution, Haiti Land Rights, National Institute for the Application of Agrarian Reform Haiti, Help Haiti, Haiti Agrarian Reform, Haiti Reconstruction, Haiti Earthquake, Haitian Peasant, Haiti Aid, World News

Ronel Thelusmond is the director of the technical division of the National Institute for the Application of Agrarian Reform (INARA), which is part of ...

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Finding Housing for Haitians Still Without A Home

Beverly Bell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tent Camps, Right to Housing, Help Haiti, Haiti Reconstruction, Haiti Earthquake, Internally Displaced People, Haiti Aid, Impact News

While the eyes of the world are on Haiti's illegitimate elections, about 1.5 million displaced earthquake survivors continue to live in sub-human conditions.

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In Haiti, "We Will Never Fall Asleep Forgetting"

Beverly Bell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Haitian Elections, Haitian Politicians, Internally Displaced Haitians, Baby Doc Returns to Haiti, Duvalier, Help Haiti, Aristide Haiti, Haitian Politics, Haiti Earthquake, Haiti Reconstruction, Baby Doc, Haiti Aid, Haiti Camps, World News

This month, human rights organizations throughout Port-au-Prince are holding public colloquia on the dictatorship. They hope to educate those who didn't live under Duvalier and to reignite those who did.

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"Haiti Needs a Social Policy for Housing"

Beverly Bell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Housing Rights Haiti, Tents Haiti, Internally Displaced People Camps Haiti, Housing Policy Haiti, IDP Camps Haiti, Help Haiti, Haiti Earthquake, Haiti Reconstruction, Haiti Aid, World News

Ronel Thelusmond is director at the Haitian Ministry of Agriculture. I asked Ronel how the government could get housing for the estimated 1.5 million people who lost their homes during the earthquake.

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Haitian Renaissance: Youth Paint a New Country

Beverly Bell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hope Haiti, Creative Youth Haiti, Art Haiti, Youth Culture Haiti, Cultural Resistance Haiti, Creative Resistance Haiti, Help Haiti, Haiti Earthquake, Haiti Reconstruction, Haiti Aid, World News

Today, 68 youth from ages 8 to early 20s are painting and sculpting. The artwork represents the daily stuff of Haitian life, like forms of labor, scenes inside village huts, and landscapes.

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Haiti, One Year Later

Kevin Powell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Edeyo, Haiti Reconstruction, Haiti Relief, Regine Zamor, Haiti Earthquake, World News

One year ago today we witnessed one of the greatest human tragedies in recent world history, the horrific earthquake and its ugly aftermath in Haiti.

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The Poor Always Pay: The Electoral Crisis in Haiti

Beverly Bell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cholera, Fraud, Elections, Haiti Reconstruction, Haiti Earthquake, Haiti, World News

The electoral debacle appears to have one other beneficiary besides whoever wins the presidency. It is the boys who, for once in this super-dense city with almost no recreational spaces, have had endless open streets on which to play soccer.

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"Miami Rice": The Business of Disaster in Haiti

Beverly Bell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Monsanto, Farmers, Agriculture, Food Aid, Hunger, Haiti, Haiti Earthquake, Haiti Reconstruction, Usaid, Haiti Aid, Bill Clinton, World News

What is at stake in Haiti? What interests underlie the grab for power in the country? One answer is the large amount of aid and development dollars that are circulating.

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"The People Must Be Agents of Change": The Lambi Fund of Haiti

Beverly Bell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Economic Development, Haiti Reconstruction, Haiti Earthquake, Haiti, Haiti Aid, Women, Development, World News

A society that maintains so much exclusion simply can't achieve development. No way. Development has to involve everyone.

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Guest Blog: "Haiti's Unnatural Disasters"

Mark Schuller | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hurricane Tomas, Haiti Relief, Haiti Reconstruction, Haiti Hurricane Season, Haiti, World News

Haiti is being battered from every which direction, it seems. People who have survived the earthquake now have to contend with a deadly outbreak of ...

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Haitian Women and Elections: Presidents, Politics and Power

Beverly Bell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Refugees, Women, Haitian Elections, Haiti Reconstruction, Elections, Haiti Earthquake, Haiti, World News

Reconstructing Haiti is not about buildings, projects, or money. It's about power -- about who gets to control what the future Haiti looks like. We asked Haitian women their thoughts on women, power and the elections.

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What Can the Power of Art Accomplish?

Carine Fabius | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Michael Jackson, Haitian Art, Arvo Pärt, Edwidge Danticat, R.E.M., Michael Stipe, Haiti, Haiti Reconstruction, Power of Art, Create Dangerously, Haitian Cultural Foundation, Arts News

Several themes have been dancing around inside my head lately. Tiptoeing like a ballerina is the power of art to transform us.

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Haiti: Our Promise, Our History, Our Neighbor

Rev. Jesse Jackson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bill Clinton, Haiti Reconstruction, Reconstruction, Haiti, United Nations, World News

Haiti must have a higher place on our priority list. In March, the United States pledged $1.15 billion in aid to Haiti, but to date it has paid nothing; the money is tied up in the congressional appropriations process.

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Surviving in Haiti

Beverly Bell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Refugees, Haiti Earthquake, Housing, Refugee Camps, Haiti Reconstruction, Haiti, Haiti Aid, New Orleans, United Nations, Hurricane Katrina, Statistics, World News

The suffering of the people of Haiti is as unimaginable as the poor planning or sheer neglect of their government, the United Nations, and large international non-governmental organizations.

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Citizen Protests, Government Repression Mount in Haiti

Beverly Bell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Housing, Refugees, Un, Police Brutality, Haiti Reconstruction, Haiti Earthquake, Haiti, United Nations, Haiti Aid, World News

"I came to protest so we can find a solution. Misery is killing me," said Mascarie Sainte-Anne, 70, at the edge of a rally in front of Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive's office on October 1

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Beyond Wyclef: What Haitians Want From Elections

Beverly Bell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Earthquake, Wyclef Jean Haiti, Elections, Haiti Reconstruction, Haiti, Wyclef Jean, Haiti Aid, Haiti Earthquake, Haitian Elections, World News

We'll participate in elections once the candidates respond to our demands, once they address the problems of people living in temps, once they stop forcing women to sleep with men who control distribution of humanitarian aid to get any.

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Haitian Farmers: Growing Strength to Grow Food

Beverly Bell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Earthquake, Monsanto, Food, Agriculture, Food Sovereignty, Farming, Haiti, Haiti Reconstruction, Haiti Aid, Foreign Aid, Property Rights, Neoliberalism, Port-Au-Prince, World News

These farmers are focused principally on building food sovereignty, the right of a people to define their own food and agricultural systems, premised on growing domestically for domestic consumption.

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Getting Their Reward on Earth: Haitian Social Movements and Reconstruction

Beverly Bell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Haiti Aid, Haiti Reconstruction, Haiti Earthquake, Haiti, World News

"There needs to be a new vision for Haiti, and that vision needs to come from the people," says Marc-Arthur Fils-Aimé, director of the Karl Leveque ...

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