Haiti Relief Effort

Disaster Response 2.0: Learning From Haiti

Daniel B. Prieto | Posted 05.25.2011

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The lessons in technology innovation from Haiti present an opportunity to reconsider how the world responds to a humanitarian crisis.

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Where's Haiti's Bailout?

Isabel Macdonald | Posted 05.25.2011

Six months after the earthquake, the plan for a "New Future for Haiti" (a "Haitian-led" effort being funded under World Bank oversight, through a commission whose members include only seven Haitians) seems remote indeed.

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Camp Obama Demonstrates The Shortfalls Of Haiti Aid

AP | JONATHAN M. KATZ | Posted 05.25.2011

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CROIX-DES-BOUQUETS, Haiti — You name it, Camp Corail has got it. And Camp Obama does not. The organized relocation camp at Corail-Cesselesse ha...

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Haiti Kids Kino Project: Showing Movies In Haiti

David Fitzsimmons | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Haiti Kids Kino Project (HKKP) is a temporary social cinema for children in Haiti affected by the earthquake. The project screens films for children and provides workshops where possible to make their own films.

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Rains Threaten the Bourdon Valley

Mark Jafar | Posted 05.25.2011

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As the looming rainy season threatens Haiti's Bourdon Valley, a massive relocation effort is underway to move 2,500 residents to Tabarre Issa, a newly built settlement that has the roots to be a lasting community.

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Nearly Deported: How The Haiti Earthquake Changed One Man's Life

Bradley Gallo | Posted 05.25.2011

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Healing Kids in Haiti

James S. Gordon | Posted 11.17.2011

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In Port-au-Prince there are no fewer people living in tents or on the streets, but more of them seem out and about, vertical and animated -- selling and shopping

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AIDS in Haiti: A Secret Too Scary To Tell

Dr. Toni Brayer | Posted 05.25.2011

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For a country with such poverty, lack of health care and lack of education, it is not a surprise that HIV/AIDS remains a significant problem in Haiti. Worse still, the disease carries a stigma and HIV infection is kept secret.

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Outlying Medical Centers Under Strain In Haiti

Andrew MacCalla | Posted 05.25.2011

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Medical facilities throughout Haiti are now over-burdened by the thousands of Haitians who have relocated from Port-au-Prince to come live with family and friends.

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Hospice and Healing

Jeanne Dennis | Posted 11.17.2011

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This first blog looks at end of life care from a cultural perspective and considers how individuals and entire communities process sudden and traumatic grief and loss.

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Poetry Helps Some Cope With An Earthquake's Aftermath

John Lundberg | Posted 11.17.2011

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"Two hundred years of words, I will need to describe the destruction my eyes have seen." Those are the words Jean-Dany Jaochim used to describe his home country of Haiti after the quake.

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Haiti Aid Agencies Fighting For Money

McClatchy | Jacqueline Charles | Posted 05.25.2011

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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- At an encampment on the outskirts of Haiti's capital, physicians from three international aid agencies provide identical serv...

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Educators See Opportunity In Haiti School Rubble

AP | JONATHAN M. KATZ | Posted 05.26.2011

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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — After seven weeks with seven kids huddled under a shelter of tarps and bed sheets on the median strip of a busy road, Li...

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Disaster, Religion And Resilience In Haiti

blogs.ssrc.org | Posted 05.25.2011

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Most of us seem to know intuitively that resilience matters for post-disaster recovery, yet we also know that Haiti desperately needs the internationa...

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How The Hatian Tragedy Is Building Community

The Baietto Brothers | Posted 11.17.2011

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Our efforts now are crucial. They not only aid the physical relief of our brothers and sisters in Haiti but also their emotional relief. I pray that we hold this same sense of community in our minds and hearts everyday.

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Doctors Without Borders President: U.S. Military Hampering Haiti Relief Efforts

Posted 05.25.2011

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Doctors Without Borders President Christophe Fournier said the U.S. military presence is reducing the efficiency of the organization's medical efforts...

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Haiti: Landing 149 Flights Without Electricity, Phones, Computers or Radar

Anne Dilenschneider | Posted 05.25.2011

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Given the severe limitations of the situation, the work that is being done in Haiti and the speed with which it is being done, is amazing.

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Progress In Haiti: Catastrophe To Simple Chaos (PHOTOS)

Mark Hyman, MD | Posted 11.17.2011

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Yesterday we received a flood of supplies and people. We now have hundreds of doctors and nurses from around the world, aid workers and supplies. It is the beginning of creating order from chaos.

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Haiti Journal: Hacksaws and Vodka -- Resurrecting Port-au-Prince's Largest Hospital From The Rubble

Mark Hyman, MD | Posted 11.17.2011

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We are still operating with no electricity, oxygen, suction, or cardiac monitoring equipment. It is a week after the earthquake and while supplies have spilled into the country, we're not getting them.

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Haiti Relief Effort: Dr. Mark Hyman Talks To '60 Minutes' (VIDEO)

60 Minutes | Posted 05.25.2011

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Dr. Mark Hyman, who is chronicling his efforts to provide medical attention in Haiti through his blog on the Huffington Post, was visited by a 60 Minu...

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Haiti Journal: 'Beyond Horror'

Mark Hyman, MD | Posted 11.17.2011

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Then we landed amidst the chaos - no immigration, no customs. Greeted instead by tears and relief and hope from the local Partners in Health volunteers who lost family, friend and co-workers.

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Haiti Relief Effort: Colleges Pitch In

Posted 05.25.2011

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Young, willing and able, America's college communities are doing what they can to help the victims of this week's earthquake in Haiti. Some are also s...

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Haiti Relief Effort: Food Bank Looted

AP | BRADLEY S. KLAPPER | Posted 05.25.2011

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GENEVA — Some 6,000 tons of food aid will be distributed shortly in Haiti, a U.N. spokeswoman said Friday, adding that reports that U.N. warehou...

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Haiti Relief Effort: A Roundup

Bill Lucey | Posted 05.25.2011

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Most humanitarian international agencies have been raising record amounts of money at lightning speed that will be directed toward relief efforts in Haiti.

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