Working, Not Begging in Haiti
I'm flying back to Haiti, remembering words spoken to me nearly a decade ago: "We are not beggars!" The speaker was Rwandan master weaver Pascasie Mukabuligo.
I'm flying back to Haiti, remembering words spoken to me nearly a decade ago: "We are not beggars!" The speaker was Rwandan master weaver Pascasie Mukabuligo.
Posted 01.12.2012
Two years after the devastating 7.0 earthquake devastated Haiti, lives and buildings are still far from restored. Although $4.6 billion has been c...
AP | Posted 12.21.2011
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- The Clinton Bush Haiti Fund says it hopes $1.5 million in grants will help Haiti build its hotel, education and technology se...
Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 05.25.2011
NGOs must stop operating as corporations. Only by putting themselves out of business, by actually solving problems, can they claim success.
HuffingtonPost.com | Carly Schwartz | Posted 05.25.2011
Marie Georges is a 45-year-old Haitian mother of six. Until the earthquake devastated her country one year ago, she ran a small business out of her ho...
Crossover Dreams | Posted 05.25.2011
By Ansel Herz Within hours of my op-ed being published in the New York Daily News today, the $50 million Clinton Bush Haiti Fund posted an update on ...
AP | JONATHAN M. KATZ | Posted 05.25.2011
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Former U.S. President Bill Clinton expressed frustration Saturday over the slow pace of Haiti's earthquake recovery, but...
Posted 05.25.2011
In the aftermath of the devastating earthquake in Haiti, former Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush joined forces to establish the Clinton Bush...
AP | TAMARA LUSH | Posted 05.25.2011
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Former President George W. Bush ambled into a steamy, fragrant mango warehouse in Haiti on Tuesday and surveyed several ...
Posted 05.25.2011
President Clinton posted a video to his YouTube page on Tuesday, describing the Clinton Foundation's efforts in Haiti, and how money donated to the Cl...
AP | SAMANTHA GROSS | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW YORK — Former President Bill Clinton is urging the aid groups serving Haiti's devastated communities to help rebuild the country's governmen...
Jeff Muskus | Posted 05.25.2011
During their first joint visit to Haiti this week, George W. Bush appears to have wiped his hand on Bill Clinton's shirt after shaking hands with a cr...
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama plans to donate the $1.4 million from his Nobel Peace Prize to helping students, veterans' families and surv...
Posted 05.25.2011
Have some cash burning a hole in your pocket and trying to decide whether to use it on something good for the world or something that'll look good on ...
Dr. David Washington | Posted 05.25.2011
The impact of social networks and new media on fundraising for emergency relief efforts in the aftermath of the Haiti earthquake is a truly inspiring sign that philanthropy has entered the 21st century.
Dr. Rajiv Shah | Posted 05.25.2011
Together with our international and non-governmental partners, we can help Haiti regain the path towards a better future. Long after television cameras leave, American support will remain.
Bill Clinton | Posted 05.25.2011
In the midst of an awful tragedy, the Haitian people are reimagining a future that the Haitian government is committed to build. It won't be easy, it won't be quick, but it can be done. And we can help.
Carol Hoenig | Posted 05.25.2011
There is one young girl who is not only curious about the men and women who made it into history books, but is already, at the age of eight years old, inspiring others with her passion.
Petra Nemcova | Posted 05.25.2011
As in all times of natural disaster, there is one potent countervailing force that can match the power of nature -- and that is the human heart.
Posted 05.25.2011
Friday's 'Hope For Haiti' telethon, organized by George Clooney and broadcast across nearly every major network, raised over $57 million in phone, onl...
Yasamin Beitollahi | Posted 05.25.2011
The international outpouring of help displays humanity's better angels -- a global sense of grief and sympathy.
Willa Shalit | Posted 04.15.2012