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'Art Is Almost Everywhere In The City'

Jaime Rojo & Steven Harrington | Posted 04.17.2013 | Arts
Read More: Steven P. Harrington, c215, Viktor Gjengaar, Brooklyn Street Art, Port-Au-Prince, BrooklynStreetArt.Com, Christian Guémy, Haiti, Jaime Rojo, Arts News
Jaime Rojo & Steven Harrington

Parisian street artist C215 has been traveling again, this time to Port Au Prince in Haiti, where he drew many curious audiences during the week-long ...

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The Joy of Haiti

Misha Lyuve | Posted 05.15.2013 | Impact
Read More: Jane Aronsons, Wwo, Orphans, Haiti, Worldwide Orphans Foundation, Port-Au-Prince, Making a Difference, ARE WE READY, Kenscoff, Video, Impact News
Misha Lyuve

It became clear -- money, supplies and good people are not enough. It all has to be applied thoughtfully and deliberately to transform communities in a way that they can start taking care of themselves.

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Share the Gift of Story on World Read Aloud Day

Pam Allyn | Posted 04.29.2013 | Impact
Read More: Manila, Harlem, Women's Empowerment, Social Justice, Education, Literacy, Illiteracy, Human Rights, Kibera, Community, Port-Au-Prince, Children's Rights, Reading, World Read Aloud Day, Reading Aloud, Impact News
Pam Allyn

Reading aloud delivers a deep comfort for a child. In stories, they find a safe place to return to, and tools to navigate life. Books provide a risk-free environment to grapple with the world's big questions.

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The Caribbean's Next Hot Spot?

Paul Clammer | Posted 04.03.2013 | Travel
Read More: Port-Au-Prince, Cap-Haitien, Caribbean, Adventure Travel, Travel Guides, Caribbean Travel, Haiti Travel, Haiti, Bradt, Travel News
Paul Clammer

Haiti, it's fair to say, completely blindsided me. On that first trip I travelled the breadth of the county, squeezed into rickety buses or perched on the back of motorbike taxis.

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Each New Day in the New Haiti Brings New Opportunities to Create Happiness

Petra Nemcova | Posted 03.18.2013 | Impact
Read More: Happy Hearts Fund, Haiti Earthquake, Haiti, Haiti Schools, Haiti Education, Haiti Relief, Haiti New Opportunities, Sean Penn Haiti, Haiti Earthquake Anniversary, Port Au Prince, Kaiti Kindergarten, The Muspan School, Bill Clinton Haiti, Impact News
Petra Nemcova

For my part, I am sticking by Haiti today, and for the long run! Remember that the road to recovery is difficult and long. It continues after the breaking news stops and cameras depart.

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LOOK: Haiti 3 Years Later: Where Has The Money Gone?

Posted 01.12.2013 | Impact
Read More: Haiti UN, Red Cross Haiti, Haiti Earthquake, Red Cross Haiti Donations, Haiti-Earthquake-Three-Year-Anniversary, World Bank Haiti, Oxfam Haiti, Port-Au-Prince, Haiti Earthquake Help, Impact News

Three years on, much of the conversation surrounding the Haiti earthquake recovery has centered around charities squandering money, the gains U.S. con...

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Haiti Warning Revised By State Department

AP | Posted 02.28.2013 | Travel
Read More: State Department Warnings, Travel Tips, Caribbean, Caribbean Travel, Haiti Travel, Port-Au-Prince, Haitian, Haiti, State Department, Adventure Travel, Travel News

WASHINGTON — The State Department has issued a revised Haiti travel advisory, warning Americans planning to travel to the Caribbean island natio...

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World Bank President Says He Sees More Hope In Haiti Than Ever Before

AP | TRENTON DANIEL | Posted 11.08.2012 | Impact
Read More: Video, Hope for Haiti, Jim Yong Kim, Partners in Health, Impact News, Haiti, World Bank, Port-Au-Prince, World Bank President, Impact News

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- It was a whirlwind tour for World Bank President Jim Yong Kim, who helicoptered from the grounds of the demolished National P...

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Haiti and the Danger of a Single Story

Dr Alvaro Bermejo | Posted 12.17.2012 | World
Read More: HIV Prevention, HIV/AIDS, Port-Au-Prince, Haiti Earthquake, Hiv, Haiti, Natural Disaster, UK Impact, Tsunami, Disaster, Earthquake, Flooding, World News
Dr Alvaro Bermejo

The best, most cost-effective model of integrated HIV care, training and research I've ever seen is Haitian.

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Sean Penn's Nonprofit Has Big Plans For Haiti's National Palace

AP | TRENTON DANIEL | Posted 10.22.2012 | Impact
Read More: Video, Haiti National Palace Demolition, Haiti Earthquake, Haiti, Sean Penn Haiti, Port-Au-Prince, Sean Penn, Sean Penn Haiti Nonprofit, Haiti National Palace, Impact News

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The nonprofit aid group founded by Hollywood star Sean Penn in the aftermath of Haiti's deadly 2010 earthquake will over...

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Latrines with Walls: Preventing Cholera in Haiti

Jason Hayes | Posted 09.29.2012 | World
Read More: Haiti Cholera Outbreak, Doctors Without Borders, Cholera, Port-Au-Prince, Knowledge, Haiti Cholera, Hopital Albert Schweitzer, Haiti, World News
Jason Hayes

How exactly you tip the scales is an extremely complicated matter. In the fields and rice paddies when people need to use the bathroom, they just go. By the river, when people are thirsty in this heat that makes your breath draw like gel, they just have a drink.

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Haiti Frees 2 Jailed Americans

AP | TRENTON DANIEL | Posted 09.05.2012 | World
Read More: Haiti America, Video, William Jason Petrie, Haiti, Steven Shaw, Conspiracy, Port Au Prince, Port-Au-Prince, Haiti American Prisoners, Haiti Army, World News

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Two Americans locked up for almost two months in a Haitian prison for their alleged roles in a pro-army demonstration we...

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Haitians Protest Slum Destruction

AP | EVENS SANON | Posted 08.25.2012 | World
Read More: Petionville, Video, Port Au Prince Slums, Port Au Prince Protests, Haiti Slum, Haiti, Port Au Prince, Haiti Protests, World News

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — More than 1,000 Haitians marched through the Caribbean nation's capital Monday to protest a reported plan to destroy the...

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Film on Haitian Art: In the Eye of the Spiral

Jim Luce | Posted 06.26.2012 | Impact
Read More: Thought Leader, Eve Blouin, Film, Paul Haggis, Haitian Art, In the Eye of the Spiral, Blu Putnam, Robert Beevers, Mario Benjamin, Raynald Leconte, Haiti, Global Citizen, Stanford Luce, Isabel Hegner, Jim Luce, James Jay Dudley Luce Foundation, Dans L?Oeil De La Spirale, Frantz Zephirin, Rachel Nadjarian, Annie Lennox, Port-Au-Prince, International University Center Haiti, Art, International Development, Ram, Franketienne, Kaiama Glover, Oloffson Hotel, Haitian Cultural Foundation, Hcf, Vodou Rock Band, Impact News
Jim Luce

We believe that the art of this nation can be the catalyst to begin a positive and expanding spiral for the people of Haiti. I believe in Haiti. I deeply admire its people and have great respect for its artists and intellectuals.

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Has Foreign Aid Hurt Haiti: An Interview with Mario Joseph

Dr. Tukufu Zuberi | Posted 06.06.2012 | Black Voices
Read More: Haiti Earthquake Relief, Haiti Earthquake, Haiti, Haiti Cholera Outbreak, Bill Clinton, Usaid, Foreign Aid, Haiti Relief, Haiti Rape, Haiti Cholera, Foreign Affairs, United Nations, Mario Joseph, United States, US Foreign Policy, Obama Foreign Policy, Humanitarian Aid, Foreign Policy, Ngo, Un Peacekeepers, Port-Au-Prince, Peacekeeping, Haiti Aid, UN Peacekeeping-Haiti, Black Voices News
Dr. Tukufu Zuberi

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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Shooting Haiti: The Rosena's Life Project

Jeroen Swolfs | Posted 05.07.2012 | Travel
Read More: Photography, Video, Red Cross, Streets of the World, Port-Au-Prince-Haiti, Port Au Prince, Travel, Jeroen Swolfs, Travel Blogs, Haiti, Urban, Travel News
Jeroen Swolfs

A girl who broke both her legs and lost most of her left hand under the rubble is still fighting for her dream: to become a nurse.

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Eleanor Goldberg

How Far Can Your $1 Go To Provide Jobs For Poor Through Microloans?

HuffingtonPost.com | Eleanor Goldberg | Posted 09.25.2012 | Impact
Read More: Microloans, Global-Poverty-Project, Haiti Education, Charity, Haiti Unemployment, Port Au Prince, Cite Soleil, Poverty Resolutions, Video, Haiti Earthquake, Haiti, Matt Jones, Andrew Jones, Rebuilding Haiti, Slidepollajax, Impact News

When Matt Jones tells an auditorium full of students that he's rich, they usually laugh. The 32-year-old doesn't quite give off the millionaire imp...

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Philanthropist Shot, Robbed While Picking Up Money For Haiti Orphanage Project

AP | By JENNIFER KAY | Posted 03.28.2012 | Impact
Read More: Haiti Charity, Nicolle Bompart, Video, Project Medishare Hospital, David Bompart, Haiti, Port-Au-Prince, Miami, Eyes Wide Open International, Impact News

BY ASSOCIATED PRESS/JENNIFER KAY MIAMI -- A U.S. man who helped build a trauma center in Haiti after January 2010's devastating earthquake was tre...

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Haiti Marks Second Anniversary Of Deadly Quake

AP | TRENTON DANIEL | Posted 03.13.2012 | World
Read More: Haiti Quake, Haiti Earthquake Anniversary, Haiti Earthquake, Haiti Port Au Prince, Haiti, Port Au Prince, Haiti Earthquake Memorial Services, World News

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Haitians gathered in makeshift churches and even a United Nations supply base Thursday to mark the second anniversary of...

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PHOTOS: Haiti: Two Years Later

Posted 01.11.2012 | World
Read More: Photos, Photography, Haiti Earthquake Anniversary, Natural Disasters, Haiti Earthquake, Exposure, Port-Au-Prince, Photojournalism, World News

Jan. 12, 2012 marks the two-year anniversary of the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti and left 300,000 dead and some 1.5 million homeless in t...

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Aid Group Believes It's Tracked First Haiti Cholera Case

AP | By TRENTON DANIEL | Posted 01.09.2012 | Impact
Read More: Louise Ivers, American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Video, Haiti Earthquake, David Walton, Partners in Health, Paul Farmer, Disease, Haiti, Cholera, Port-Au-Prince, Impact News

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- A mentally ill man who bathed in and drank from a contaminated river most likely was the first person to be infected in the C...

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Where Did Money Raised For Haiti Go?

The Chronicle Of Philanthropy | Posted 01.07.2012 | Impact
Read More: Haiti Charity, Habitat for Humanity International, Haiti Earthquake, Haiti, Pan-American-Development-Foundation, American Red Cross, Port-Au-Prince, International Medical Corps, Relief International, Impact News

International aid charities have spent about two-thirds of the money they raised after the deadly earthquake that rattled Haiti nearly two years ago. ...

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Creating and Bleeding in Haiti's Grand Rue at the Ghetto Biennale

Carine Fabius | Posted 02.28.2012 | Arts
Read More: First World Art, Third World Art, Sculptors of the Grand Rue, Port-Au-Prince, Atis Rezistans, Ghetto Biennale, Oloffson Hotel, Pascal Giacomini, Haiti, Arts News
Carine Fabius

I happen to like Ghetto Biennale. The artwork -- made by the local artists from trash, junk and found objects in one of the poorest and challenging environments anywhere -- is being created and exhibited in the ghetto.

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No Photos, Please

AP | EVENS SANON | Posted 02.11.2012 | Miami
Read More: Oprah, Haiti Earthquake, Sean Penn, Haiti, Port-Au-Prince, Miami News

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Oprah Winfrey toured an encampment for Haitians displaced by a massive 2010 earthquake under tight security Monday, with...

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WATCH: Boy In Haiti Rescued From Deep Hole, Possible Sex Trafficking (VIDEO)

Posted 12.07.2011 | Impact
Read More: Dominican Republic, Port-Au-Prince, Yves Prophete, Child Trafficking, All of God's Children Orphanage, Haiti, Video, Impact News

Badly baten, naked and hungry, a Haitian child now called Miguel had been left in a deep hole for days. Haiti officials believe he was put there by...

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