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Middle School Girl Builds 27 Homes In Haiti -- But She's Not Stopping There

Posted 12.29.2011

Read More: Haiti Schools, Julie Wheeler, Video, Haiti Earthquake, Haiti, Food for the Poor, Rebuilding Haiti, Rachel Wheeler, Leogane, Impact News

When 12-year-old Rachel Wheeler was greeted with songs and praise in the Haitian village she helped develop, she felt satisfied. But, she also decided...

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Leogane Haiti -- Teaching Mind-Body Skills at Cardinal Leger Hospital

James S. Gordon | Posted 07.20.2011

Read More: Dancing, Meditation, Mind-Body Connection, Haiti Earthquake Relief, Mind.Body.Soul, Haiti Earthquake, Haiti, Leogane, Impact News

"We will use what you have taught us, ourselves," says Sister Yolande, the Director, "and we will teach our patients too."

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Rotary International Names Dynamic New General Secretary

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rotary International, Conflict, Sri Lanka, Leogane, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Sustainable Development, Marshall Scholar, Oiww, Tsunami, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Jim Luce, John Hewko, Rotary Foundation, Harvard Law School, Oxford University, India, Baker & McKenzie, Polio, World Health Organization, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Orphans International Worldwide, Usaid, Millennium Challenge Corporation, Impact News

There are 1.2 million Rotarians in 33,000 Rotary clubs in more than 200 countries and geographical areas, and they couldn't have a more capable general secretary than John Hewko.

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Architects Announce Six Final Plans for Haiti Housing Collaborative

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

The transition from relief to reconstruction has been slow in Haiti. But a group of architects have come together to submit dozens of proposals for affordable housing in the country.

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Top Ten Private Initiatives in Haiti Supplement Big Players in 2010-11

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: We Can?T Have That Foundation, Sandy Mitchell, Rotary International, Mirlande Manigat, Partners in Health, Marcel Duret, Hopital Albert Schweitzer Haiti, DePaul University, Anne Hastings, American Institute of Architects, Leogane, Collaborative Design for Sustainable Housing Haiti, Federation Des Caisses, Jurate Kazickas, Wyclef Jean, Yele Haiti, Hugh Locke, Jim Luce, James Jay Dudley Luce Foundation, Cine Institute of Jacmel, Yele Corps, Port-Au-Prince, International University Center Haiti, International Museum of Art Haiti, YMCA Haiti, Noushin Ehsan, Petite Goave, Orphans International Worldwide Haiti, Konsey Nasyonal Finansman Popile, Stanford L. Luce, Kenneth Merten, Haitian Diaspora, Larry Mellon, Microfinance, Zafen, Haitian Hometown Associations, Bob Cushman, NPH Saint Damien Hospital, Haiti, Fonkoze, Hopital Ste Croix Leogane, Katleen Felix, New Haiti, Teach the World on-Line, Achilles Kids, Ecole De La Redemption, Benjamin Gilman, International YMCA, Deschapelles, Coopcab, World News

Haiti needs hope -- and so many private initiatives doing so much could do even more -- with your support. There is so much hope for Haiti. Let's fund it.

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The F Word: Haiti's Hurricane Struggles

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rebuild, Partners in Health, Laura Flanders, Hurricane Tomas, Grittv, Cholera, Earthquake, Storm, Grit Tv, Haiti, Paul Farmer, Leogane, Politics News

Turning away from the U.S. elections for a moment, we can find plenty of places suffering not from a hurricane of campaign cash, but from actual hurri...

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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

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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Join Us in Integrated Approach to Build The New Haiti

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: We Can?T Have That Foundation, Usaid, University of West Indies, Microcredit, Nyu, Housing, Social Responsibility, World Bank, Liberal Arts, Internet Connectivity, Federation Des Caisses, International Developent Fund, Family Care, Harvard, Desjardins Developpement International, Yale, Leogane, Ganthier, Orphan Care, Kiwanis, International University of Haiti, Princeton, Lions International, James Jay Dudley Luce Foundation, Nyu-Polytec, Cheddi Jagan, Skype, Health Care, Agricultural Cooperatives, Rotary, Creating Global Leadership, International Development, Haitian Diaspora, Earthquake, European Union, Croix-Des-Bouquets, Chf, Oiww, New York City, Tourism, Thomas Dudley, Education, Commerce, College of Wooster, New Haiti, Orphans International Worldwide, Haiti, Petit-Goave, Professional Development, Hospital St. Croix, Creole Language, Ecole De La Redemption, January 12, World News

Léogâne, Haiti. I am perhaps the most excited I have been in my entire life as I prepare to move to Haiti next month. Ten months after the earthqu...

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Dear Wyclef: Do Business, Go Green

Michael Seager | Posted 05.25.2011

Instead of focusing on making a difference in Haiti through the public sector, why not try the private? Let me tell you about some good social enterprise ideas, and who might find them appealing in Haiti.

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Bill Clinton Puts Influential Muscle Behind Agricultural Production in Haiti

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Haiti Earthquake Relief, Bill Clinton, Haiti, Regine Simon, Sugar, Foreign Aid, Bagasse, Government of Haiti, Sustainable Agriculture, Sugarcane, Obama Foreign Policy, Leogane, Darbonne, Diana Jones, Community-Sustainable-Agriculture, Twitter, Youtube, Energy Debates, World News

BioTek's Regine Simon Barjon with Former President of the United States, co-chair of the IHRC, and UN Special Envoy for Haiti Bill Clinton at the Dar...

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Haitian-American Professionals Returning to Haiti to Help Post-Quake

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Earthquake, We Can?T Have That Foundation, Leogane, Ministry of Haitians Abroad, NYU Polytechnic, Wyclef Jean, The Stewardship Report, International Donors, Oiww, Deborah Pierre, Cycle of Dependency, Jlsr, Evens Anozine, Orphans, Port-Au-Prince, Haitian-Americans, Handal Murat, Miami, Haitian-American Professionals, Poverty, Haitian Diaspora, Child Sponsorship, Gramercy Park Hotel, Zafen, Haitian Hometown Associations, Montreal, Mentoring Program, Haiti, New York City, Fonkoze, Katleen Felix, New Haiti, Rose Bar, Leadership Training, Orphans International Worldwide, GreenLight Innovations, Cenaref, World News

Haitian-Americans are becoming increasingly vital to the reconstruction of Haiti. I accompanied several back to their native land last week to work w...

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Haitian Leadership Mentoring Program for Orphans Growing in Leogane

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: N.Y.U. Polytechnic Institute, Raising Global Citizens, Project Leogane, Leogane, Child Sponsorship, Orphan Care, End Orphanages Globally, Connectivity, Haitian Students, College Prep Leadership Training Program, NYU Polytec, Japan, Haiti, Leadership Mentoring, France, Oiww, Hurricane Jeanne, Internet, Israel, U.S.A., Scholarships, Gonaives, Orphans International Worldwide, Refugee Camps, Mentoring Children, Ecole De La Redemption, OIWW Family Care, January 12, World News

There is no reason for Haiti to be a hell hole. It has abundant and beautiful natural resources, an incredible and indomitable people, and is only tw...

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Trip to Haiti #22: Some Changes at Bottom, Same Old Stuff at Top

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Leadership, Educational Opportunities, Project Leogane, Orphans, Leogane, Agriculture, English Training, Disaster Relief, Oiww, Haiti Earthquake, U.N., Academic Scholarships, Japanese American Association New York City, Computer Training, Orphan Family Care, Scholarships, Orphaned Children, Mentorship, NYU Poly, Social Net, Connectivity, American Airlines, Haiti, Oxford Ohio, Global Mindset, New Haiti, Haitian-American, Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, Leadership Training, Orphans International Worldwide, Ecole De La Redemption, January 12, World News

My 22nd trip to Haiti since 2001, the third since the earthquake of January 12. Probably over 250,000 dead more than six months ago. The exact figur...

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Six Months On, Haitian Moms Still Need Health Care

Michelle Chen | Posted 05.25.2011

This is how things get done in Haiti. It is a system threaded together with grants and goodwill, hinging on the booms and busts of the global economy and the ebb and flow of natural disaster.

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'Orphan Doctor' Calls on World Community to End Orphan Crisis by Tackling Poverty

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nepal, Children, AIDS Orphans, Democracy Journal, The Baby Business, Leogane, Social Orphan, Psychosocial Services, Family Care, Glamour Magazine, China, The Stewardship Report, Dr. Jane Aronson, Oiww, Hague Convention, The Luce Index, Child-Welfare System, Child Advocate, Child Exploitation, Orphaned Children, International Community, Global Orphan Crisis, Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism, Developing World, E.J. Graff, Pediatrician, Adoption, Child Trafficking, Madonna, Unicef, Economic Orphans, Malawi, Biological Orphan, Top Ten New Yorkers, Global Leaders, Haiti, Worldwide Orphans Foundation, Universal Education, Thought Leader, The Orphan Doctor, Andeisha Farid, Global Poverty, Orphan, Social Services, Brandeis University, Extreme Poverty, Wwo, Afghanistan, CharityHelp International, Orphans International Worldwide, Kenya, Jlsr, World News

Dr. Jane Aronson, founder and CEO of Worldwide Orphans Foundation (WWO), has issued a bold response today to a recent article on child trafficking. J...

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Eunhee Jung O'Neill's Center for International Virtual Schooling

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Europe, Kindergarten, Good Neighbors, Long-Distance Learning, Information and Communication Technology, Center for International Virtual Schooling, Eunhee Jung, Seoul, Leogane, 9/11, International Virtual Elementary/Secondary Classroom Activities, Thought Leaders, Instructional Technology, Seoul National University, Intercultural Competence, Global Citizens, Gwangju National University of Education, English Language, Cottage Lane Elementary School, Virginia, Oiww, Muslim, Electronic Exchange Program, Middle East, Jim Luce, E.S.L., Cross-Cultural Education, Curry School of Education, University of Virginia, Africa, Latin America, Mobile Phone Technology, South East Asia, Gwangju Elementary School in Korea, Haiti, New York, Video Streaming, South Korea, Underdeveloped Countries, Distant Learning Association, Orphans International Worldwide, Charlottesville, U.N. General Assembly Resolution, Cultural Differences, Iveca, Impact News

Eunhee Jung O'Neill, Ph.D., is interested in long-distance learning, specifically about cultures. Eunhee is the founder and director of International Virtual Elementary/Secondary Classroom Activities.

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Airplane Interview with the American Ambassador to Haiti

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: First Lady of Haiti, Earthquake, Miami University, Justice, Beijing, United Nations, Leogane, Kenneth H. Merten, Agriculture, American Ambassador, Thought Leaders, Reconstruction, Stanford L. Luce!, Global Citizens, U.S. Secretary of State, Security, Oiww, Ohio, Port-Au-Prince, U.N. Blue Helmets, Gonaives, Bill Clinton, Rene Preval, Morgan Freeman, Health, University of Akron, Haiti, New York, Harvard University, Family Care, Hurricane Jeanne, U.N. Special Envoy for Haiti, Hillary Clinton, Orphans International Worldwide, Energy, U.N. Donors Conference, World News

Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Returning from a recent post-disaster trip to Haiti, I was pleasantly surprised to bump into the American Ambassador, the Hon....

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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

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: Tremendous Progress Accomplished in Six Short Haitian Days

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: We Can?T Have That Foundation, Europe, Colonel Wasantha Herath, Ravi Singh, Beijing, United Nations, Leogane, Kenneth H. Merten, Cooperative Solidarite Pour Le Developpement, Asia, Creole, Santos Alexis, Ngo, Khalsa Aid, Kona Shen, Jim Luce, Orphans, Academic Scholarships, Brown University, Minutsah, Evans Anozine, Service Oecumenique D?Entraide, Miami, Orphans International Worldwide Haiti, IDP Camp, Morgan Freeman, Canadian Navy, Skype, Ecole Primeraire La Redemption, Haiti, New York City, Haitian-American Engineers Association, Nouveu College Surin Eveillard, Internet, India, Richard Bercy, U.S. Ambassador to Haiti, Earthquake Recovery, Orphans International Worldwide, World News

Today was the beginning of the end of our six short days in Haiti to set the stage for post-disaster recovery here. April 1 officially begins the nex...

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Live Report: 200 Haitian Earthquake Survivors Interviewed for Ten Chinese Scholarships

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

We are 18 debris-strewn miles West of Port-au-Prince. I am leading an international NGO team in Haiti as part of the recovery and reconstruction here...

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

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

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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Live from Leogane: Orphans International Partners with Haitian School Founded by Orphan

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Special Education Teachers, N.Y.U. Polytechnic Institute, Earthquake, Raising Global Citizens, Seth Louis Jacques, Philippe Beauliere, OIWW Global Standards, Masoud Ghandehari, York College, Brooklyn, Leogane, Mathew?S Rule, Skype, Queens, Connectivity, Creole, Child Psychologists, Volunteers, Haiti, France, Carl Skelton, Oiww, Rainy Season, Practicum Abroad, Haitian School, Haitian Orphan, Orphans International Worldwide, American School System, University of Quebec, Ecole De La Redemption, January 12, World News

"My father, Ambroise Beauliere, wrote our school's mission statement forty years ago to provide private education at the best possible quality at the ...

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Live from Leogane: College Prep Leadership Training Begins for Orphan Mentors

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Earthquake, University Scholarship Programs, Raising Global Citizens, Minustah, Psychological Trauma, Brooklyn, United Nations, Sri Lanka, Leogane, Internet Connectivity, Canadian Red Cross, America, Carl Skelton, Seattle, Renaissance, Oiww, Indonesia, Evens Anozine, Orphans, Social Responsibility, Port-Au-Prince, Wasantha Herath, Haitian Prime Minister, Leadership Training, N.Y.U. Polytechnic, Skype, Connectivity, Barack Obama, Haiti, New York City, Mentorship Program, Tsunami, New Haiti, Orphans International Worldwide, Yes We Can!, Ecole De La Redemption, January 12, Austrian Red Cross, World News

The College Prep Leadership Training Program of Orphans International Worldwide (OIWW) Haiti launched this week at l'Ecole de la Redemption in Leogane...

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Haiti's Fayette Villagers Forgotten at Epicenter

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Floods, Epicenter, Foreign Aid, Remote Sensing, Nasa, Aid, Fayette, Facebook, Usgs, Landslides, Leogane, EO-1 Satellite, Haitiblog, Haiti Earthquake, Water, Disaster, Youtube, Port-Au-Prince, Villagers, World News

Fear continues to linger in Fayette, the village closest to the epicenter of the earthquake in Haiti. A visit from scientists who are doing more than passing through with their instruments would be appreciated.

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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

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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