Haiti Earthquake on Huffington Post

Haiti To Clean Up With Waste-To-Energy Plant

2012-05-17T16:41:17Z

By Earthtechling's Julie Mitchell:

Ever since a devastating earthquake hit Haiti in 2010, the country has suffered from a severe sanitation crisis....

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James S. Gordon: Helping Haiti Heal

2012-05-16T12:48:23Z

For two years, my colleagues and I have been training health and mental health professionals, teachers, priests, nuns, and voodoo healers to deal with their own stress and trauma and then to help the populations they serve.

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Dagfinn Høybråten: In Haiti: Rebuilding a Healthier Future With Vaccines

2012-05-15T12:52:20Z

In post-earthquake Haiti, the women weren't lined up waiting for food. They sat on wooden benches inside a large tent and waited patiently to have their children vaccinated.

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Adriana Lima: St. Damien's: A Mother's Story

2012-05-12T17:58:05Z

After meeting the Haitian leadership at St. Damien's and St. Luke's Hospitals, I can tell you first hand that there is a great deal to be hopeful about in Haiti.

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Michael Trainer: Why I'm Living on $1.50 a Day

2012-05-11T14:29:55Z

Today I am living on $1.50 for all of my food and drink costs. Why? Because 1.4 billion people around the world don't have the option, and because I want to support a friend who showed me how to be a better man, a more gracious leader, and a more inspired human being.

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SEC Cracks Down On 'Storm Chasers' In Haiti Stock Scam

2012-05-02T17:28:43Z

On Wednesday, federal regulators announced a crackdown on 11 individuals alleged to have used the 2010 Haitian earthquake as a backdrop for perpetrati...

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Alyson Renaldo: Discussing Haiti... With a Haitian

2012-05-02T15:10:49Z

How is 'need' and 'sustained recovery' being assessed if not through continuous dialogue with the injured group, in this case Haitian people and its governance?

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Ingrid Arnesen: Despite Rape and Abject Poverty, Haiti's Women Hold the Power for Change

2012-04-27T12:35:07Z

The fight for women's rights has been a long struggle in Haiti. Until seven years ago, rape wasn't even punishable by law. It wasn't a crime until some very brave Haitian women won the battle in 2005.

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Sean Penn Earns Big Award For Work In Haiti

2012-04-25T15:38:53Z

CHICAGO — Oscar-winning actor Sean Penn gave an emotional speech Wednesday urging the world community to help Haiti as he accepted an award from...

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Dr. Jane Aronson: Haiti Journal #3 -- The Highs and Lows of Fieldwork

2012-04-25T15:27:28Z

Everyone was astonished by the condition of both buildings from the earthquake ... and the tent camps that still remain in the main square.

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Sean Penn: I'm In Haiti For The Long Haul

2012-04-24T12:27:00Z

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Sean Penn no longer lives in a tent, surrounded by some 40,000 desperate people camped on a muddy golf course. And he no long...

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Auren Kaplan: A Palace of Trash and the World It's Changing

2012-04-17T21:14:40Z

On its face, the idea sounds wonderful: get trash out of the oceans, and use it to make building blocks for homes that can then be built in the poorest of communities.

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Mark Schuller: Chaos and Cholera: Haiti's Message to the Tea Party (and the Rest of Us)

2012-04-13T10:28:50Z

This Tuesday, April 10, Rick Santorum, who had given Republican frontrunner Mitt Romney a serious run for his money, bowed out of the race, leaving th...

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Dr. Tukufu Zuberi: Has Foreign Aid Hurt Haiti: An Interview with Mario Joseph

2012-04-06T12:03:19Z

Mario Joseph is Haiti's most influential and respected human rights attorney. Since 1996, he has led the Bureau des Avocats Internationaux (BAI) in Port-au-Prince, which uses prominent human rights cases and a victim-centered approach in the interest of the poor majority.

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Geeta Rao Gupta: A Call To Protect All Children

2012-04-05T14:22:06Z

All of these children are in need of rescue -- all are children whose potential contributions to their society are being lost. All are a challenge to our consciences and to our capacity to do what we all instinctively want to do when we see a child in danger -- to save that child.

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77 New Cases A Day

2012-04-03T18:03:41Z

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Haiti is seeing a jump in the number of cholera cases as the Caribbean nation heads into the annual rainy season, a United Na...

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Mark Canavera: Brutal Aftershocks: The Persecution Of LGBT Haitians After The Earthquake

2012-04-02T17:15:00Z

The scapegoating and persecution took several forms documented in the report, including physical violence against LGBT people in the camps where displaced people were living, and sexual violence, including so-called "corrective rape."

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American Anthropological Association: Why the Cultural Conversation Should Never Stop

2012-03-26T11:52:20Z

My understandings of relationship and research changed substantially after the earthquake struck in Haiti. How did this event two years ago change me and the ways I approach my work? The list is long.

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PHOTOS: 12-Year-Old Visits Haiti Village She Helped Build

2012-03-26T09:30:19Z

At just 12 years old, a local South Florida girl has made a world of a difference.

Rachel Wheeler of Lighthouse Point just returned from a 3-day tr...

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Jared Leto: A Homecoming: My Return Trip to Haiti

2012-03-26T07:15:00Z

The experiences I had upon going back to Haiti and seeing the incredible poverty and turmoil this already impoverished nation was coping with have affected my life in a way that has forever changed me.

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PHOTOS: Lynn Memorial To Students Killed In Haiti Earthquake

2012-03-19T15:15:02Z

In January 2010, Lynn University student Courtney Hayes wrote on her Facebook wall, "It's 32 degrees in Boca; I'm off to sunny Haiti to save the world...

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James S. Gordon: Day Five: Images of Our Time Together

2012-03-06T11:41:09Z

So much happens to all of us in the Jacmel training as we go deeper, become more aware, take chances, and connect over five days.

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James S. Gordon: Amazing Graces: Days Two, Three, and Four

2012-03-02T18:57:00Z

The loss of life here in Jacmel is far less than in Port-au-Prince but the burden is still heavy. There are of course the ordinary deaths that come with age, and the losses of younger people cut down by accident, sudden illness, or murder.

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Beverly Bell: Business As Government: Capitalizing on Disaster In Post-Earthquake Haiti

2012-03-01T17:48:47Z

The pursuits of foreign firms -- making governance decisions about rebuilding, paving the way for other firms, racking up humanitarian clout -- have been at the expense of Haitians still struggling for basic needs and democratic power.

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James S. Gordon: Amazing Graces: Days Two and Three

2012-02-29T17:17:00Z

By the second day there are actually 135 participants -- almost 180 of us altogether. The ones who didn't come to the opening are present and others from the waiting list have found a way.

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