Jacmel

Amazing Graces: Days Two and Three

James S. Gordon | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Meditation, Haiti Earthquake, Ptsd, Trauma, Guided Imagery, Jacmel, Haiti, Mindful Eating, Haiti Recovery, Haiti Recovery Effort, Impact News
James S. Gordon

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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Day One of Training

James S. Gordon | Posted 04.29.2012

Read More: Haiti Earthquake, Trauma Relief, Jacmel, Ptp, Haiti, Self-Help, Health, Haiti Relief, Haiti Relief Organizations, Impact News
James S. Gordon

We are working in a school because no hotel in Jacmel can accommodate our crew -- 120 trainees plus 40 international faculty, interns, interpreters and staff.

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Private Initiative Marshall Plan Launches for the New Haiti

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Earthquake, Long Distance Learning Institute, Mdgs, Luce Group Investments, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Commerce, Jérémie, Iraq, NYU Polytechnic, Cayes-Jacmel, Léogâne, International University of Haiti, Oiww, Belo Water, Liberal Arts, Indonesia, Stewardship Report, Jim Luce, James Jay Dudley Luce Foundation, Social Programs, Social Responsibility, Port-Au-Prince, Global Leadership Institute, Gonaives, Institute for Haitian Stability., Oloffson Hotel, International Film Institute, Integrated Development, Education, Cholera Epidemic, Social Entrepreneurism, Universities of the West Indies, Microfinance, Art Restoration Institute, New York City, Haiti, Vocational Studies, Tsunami, Private Initiative, Marshall Plan, New Haiti, Millennium Development Goals, Haitian Museum of Art, International University, YMCA Léogâne, Luce Group Integrated Development Plan for the New Haiti, Professional Development, Ganthier, Luce Publications, Orphans International Worldwide, Integrated Import-Export, Jacmel, Betaville, Cap-Haïtien, World News
Jim Luce

I have been working in Haiti since Christmas 1999. That New Year's Eve I hired my first staff -- my first local partner -- with a handshake at the Ol...

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The Dichotomy of Haiti: Hell Meets, well, Heaven

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New Orleans, Jeremie, Gateway to Haiti?S South, Togo, Cayes-Jacmel, Jacmel, Coffee Merchants, Sri Lanka, Mario Benjamin, Leogane, French Quarter, Citadelle, Ewe, West Africa, Artibonite, Kenscoff, Dante?S Inferno, Franketienne, Poverty, Caribbean, Neuschwannstein, Ghana, Earthquake, Benin, Oiww, Rene Preval, Southern Province, Tourism, Nobel Prize, Cap Haitien, Haiti, Orphans International Worldwide, Petionville, Gonaives, Petit-Goave, Saint-Marc, Port-Au-Prince, Central Plateau, Impact News
Jim Luce

There is a fundamental dichotomy in Haiti between Heaven and Hell. I chose to embrace its heaven while trying to eradicate its hell.

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How you gonna keep 'em down on the farm?

Crossover Dreams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Oxfam, Haiti, Peasants, Farmers, Agriculture, Suco, Marigot, Sud-Est, Jacmel, World News
Crossover Dreams

By Peter Costantini ~ Seattle Farmers from different districts of Jacmel - Des agriculteurs venus de différentes communes de Jacmel - Photo: le No...

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WORLD ART: Art That's as Hot as Haiti

Carine Fabius | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gyodo, Haitian Art, Justin Griffith-Williams, Haitian Cultural Foundation, Killy, Jacmel, Manuel Mathieu, Port-Au-Prince, Haiti Earthquake, Pascale Monnin, Sebastien Jean, Dubreus Lherisson, Haiti, Barbara Prezeau, Curators, Arts News
Carine Fabius

Got to find joy wherever you can, and the beach is a good place to start. Next stop is the art. I've been tapped by the Haitian Cultural Foundation to curate a major traveling exhibition of Haitian art.

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Zafen: New Interest-Free Microloan Initiative Launched for Haiti

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Robert Maloney, Microloans, Economics, Chicago, DePaul University, St. Louise De Marillac, Laura Hartman, Haitian Diaspora, Business Ethicist, St. Vincent De Paul, Haiti, Haitian Hometown Associations Resource Group, Katleen Felix, Haitian Business, Haitian Entrepreneurs, Roman Catholic, Jacmel, Vincentian Family, Hhtarg, Zafen, Centre, Mirebalais, Bethsaida, Ile-a-Vache, New York News
Jim Luce

Haiti provides fertile ground for economic experiments. Its people are ready and willing, and when the right program hits, everyone will benefit. Zafe...

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Film Shown at U.N. Donor Conference on Collapse of Haiti's Presidential Palace

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Undp, Syria, White House, French, Thirty-Five Long Seconds: Haiti?S Deadly Earthquake, United Nations, Sri Lanka, Leogane, Kenneth H. Merten, Canada, China, Paris, U.S. Secretary of State, Towards a New Future in Haiti, Indonesia, Haitian School of Law, Palmyra, Ban Ki-Moon, Helen Clark, Port-Au-Prince, Haitian Presidential Palace, Gonaives, Bill Clinton, Thought Leader, Elisabeth Delatour Préval, Rene Preval, Morgan Freeman, Washington D.C., Mario L. Delatour, European Union, Ecole D?Architecture, Amistad Films, Brazil, U.N. Donor Conference, Haiti, New York, France, Film Producer, Tsunami, Place L?Ouverture, Cap Haitian, Haitian Interim Commission for Reconstruction, Haitian Government, U.N. Development Programme, Overpopulation, U.N. Special Envoy for Haiti, Global Citizen, Hillary Clinton, India, Jacmel, Spain, World News
Jim Luce

Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The film "Thirty-Five Long Seconds: Haiti's Deadly Earthquake" was screened recently as part of the recent Donor's Conference ...

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Live Report: No Spiders to Bite Me in My Pre-Dawn Haitian Shower

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Radio Amikal, Orphans International Worldwide Haiti, Philippe Beauliere, Morgan Freeman, United Nations, Leogane, Jim Luce Stewardship Report, Idps, Thought Leaders, Creole, Global Citizens, International Rescue Committee, Dr. Tiffany Keenan, Evens Anozine, Jim Luce, Internet, Jean-Michel Tijerina, Ngos, CharityHelp International, Colline Academie, Jacmel, World News
Jim Luce

Up before sunset in post-disaster Haiti, showering in the outdoor latrine in the pitch dark, I trust there are no spiders, lizards, or snakes to bite ...

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Haiti: Time for an NGO Police?

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 05.25.2011

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Georgianne Nienaber

"Any military commander will tell you that the first step to taking control of an area is to take over the airport." And so Dr. Tiffany Keenan, an ...

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We Are The World, "Nou Se Mond La"

Nick Demas | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cine Institute, Paul Haggis, Haiti Earthquake, We Are the World, Doug Liman, Jacmel, Impact News
Nick Demas

The chorus of "We Are The World," of course, is instantly recognizable to anyone over 30, and now too by all Haitians, as it has been translated into the Creole "Nou Se Mond La."

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Dr. Judy on the Trauma of Disasters - like Haitian Earthquake

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Earthquake, Petites Desdunes, Clinical Psychology, Children, United Nations, Sri Lanka, Peking University Health Science Center, Mathato Mosisili, Leogane, 9/11, U.N. Committee on Mental Health, Summit for the First Ladies of Africa, Fordham University, Father Wismick Jean-Charles, AIDS Orphans, Disaster Relief, Beyond Bullets and Bombs: Grassroots Peacebuilding Between Israelis and Palestinians, Pakalitha Mosisili, U.S. Doctors for Africa, South Africa, Webster Hall, Dr. Judy Kuriansky, Port-Au-Prince, Hurricane Katrina, American Psychiatric Association, Long Island, Lesotho, Bill Clinton, Red Cross, Roman Catholic Church, Quarterly Arts Soiree, Global Citizenship Award for Leadership in Helping Humanity, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Nicolas Neidhardt, New York City, Haiti, Columbia University Teachers College, Doctors Without Borders, Tsunami, Haitian Boy Scouts, Orphans International Worldwide, Jacmel, L'Hopital De La Communaute Haïtienne, International Association of Applied Psychology Israel, New York News
Jim Luce

New York clinical psychologist and well-known TV and radio personality Judy Kuriansky, Ph.D. just returned from Haiti where she trained "comforters" -...

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Haiti Earthquake: Greening of Hillsides Can Bolster Recovery

Joseph B. Treaster | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: United Nations Environment Program, Soil, Knight Foundation, Green, Knight Center for International Media, Earth, Tents, Trees, Crop, Port-Au-Prince, Earth Institute, Countryside, Miami, United States Agency for International Development, Hurricanes, Jeffrey Sachs, Poverty, Forest, Corn, Flood, Seed, Earthquake, Plant, Mountain, University of Miami, Haiti, Rivers, Firewood, Rice, Columbia University, Water, Deforestation, Food, Sustainability, Jacmel, Marc Levy, Green News
Joseph B. Treaster

Now with parts of Haiti in ruin and perhaps 200,000 people dead, the tree-planting and the soil sampling have halted. But the catastrophe makes it more critical than ever that Haiti be re-greened.

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No Word Yet From Our Orphaned Children in Haiti

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Earthquake, International Relief Agencies, Minustah, OI Haiti, Cyvadier Plage Hotel, United Nations Peacekeepers, Thought Leaders, Global Citizens, Oiww, Indonesia, Family Care Model, Leogane., Prince Albert of Monaco., Port-Au-Prince, Gonaives, Peter Paul and Mary, Peter Yarrow, Olafson Hotel, Cite De Soleil, Emmet Murphy, Monaco Red Cross, Haiti, Jacques Africot, Tsunami, Hurricane Jeanne, American Red Cross, Orphaned Children Haiti, Orphans International Worldwide, Jacmel, Chernik House, Norwich Mission House, U.S. State Department, Cyvadier, Haiti Earthquake, Impact News
Jim Luce

I cannot imagine, however, how bad Haiti is at this moment -- and we cannot reach our project there outside Jacmel. We have just gotten through to our American neighbor there.

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In Sri Lanka: The Basics for Americans

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tamil Tigers, Islam, India, Funny Boy, Galle, New York State, Kandy, Jaffna, Jacmel, West Virginia, Sri Lanka, Tamil Nadu, Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, Hindu Mythology, Colombo, Hinduism, Rama's Bridge, Indonesia, United Nations Peacekeeping Mission, Serendib, British East India Company, New Hampshire, Yala National Park, Adam's Bridge, Indonesian Shadow Puppets, Commonwealth of Ceylon., Buddhism, Ramayana, Mahabharata, Sanskrit, Unawatuna, South Asia, Terrorism, Malaysia, Manado, Galle Fort, Tsunami, Shyam Selvadurai, Tamil, Kotte, Orphans International Worldwide, Sinhalese, Sinhala, Gonaives, Port-Au-Prince, Mount Washington, China, World News
Jim Luce

As I travel through Sri Lanka, covering the nation as it seeks reconciliation among its diverse population after decades of conflict, I am receiving e-mails from my friends at home asking me to review the basics.

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2,870 Mayors for Peace: Does Yours Belong?

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nuclear Disarmament, Nuclear Weaponry, Atomic Bomb Dome, Delhi, Atlanta, Chicago, Washington, United Nations, Takeshi Araki, Sri Lanka, Boston, World Peace, Thought Leaders, Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, Hiroshima, Denver, Global Citizens, Seattle, Nagasaki, 2020 Vision Campaign, Prague, Mayors for Peace, Tanzania, Tadatoshi Akiba, Aaron Tovish, Philadelphia, Total Abolition of Nuclear Weapons, Santo Domingo, Mathew Luce, Los Angeles, Barack Obama, Haiti, Japan, New York, Hiroshima Peace Park., Federation of the American Scientists, Tipping Point, Thousand Origami Cranes, San Francisco, Hiroshima-Nagasaki Protocol, Orphans International Worldwide, Senbazru, Lome, Galle, Moshi, Manado, Jacmel, World News
Jim Luce

It is possible to disarm all nuclear weaponry by 2020. It is do-able. For the sake of our orphans, for the sake of your own families' children, let us commit ourselves to believing this.

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