Haiti and the broken promises

Six months after the earthquake devastated Haiti, most of the 3 million people who have been affected by the quake still live in misery. The Haitian government estimated that at least “222,570 people died, 300,572 were injured, 188,383 houses collapsed or were damaged, of which 105,000 were completely...

July 19th, 2010 | Haiti | Read More

Not a mouthpiece but a megaphone

In response to Amanda Kijera’s article Co-written by Susana Morris, Crunk Feminist Collective We are extremely disheartened to know that you were raped. We are emboldened by your courage to speak out about this experience and to attempt to grapple so soon with the social and political implications...

April 30th, 2010 | Haiti | Read More

We are not your weapons – we are women

By Amanda Kijera, civic journalist and activist in Haiti Two weeks ago, on a Monday morning, I started to write what I thought was a very clever editorial about violence against women in Haiti. The case, I believed, was being overstated by women’s organizations in need of additional resources....

April 19th, 2010 | Haiti | Read More

Social Media Activism: Adding to the Haitian narrative

American relief efforts should be driven by an understanding of what resources would provide the greatest benefit, rather than driven by an ego-based desire to be the hero that swoops in and saves the day. -Trina Chiasson, executive director of Media Make Change NEW YORK – A survivor of a natural...

March 23rd, 2010 | Featured, Haiti | Read More

Mercenaries circling Haiti

On March 9 and 10, there will be a Haiti conference in Miami for private military and security companies to showcase their services to governments and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) working in the earthquake devastated country. On their website for the Haiti conference, the trade group IPOA...

March 3rd, 2010 | Featured, Haiti | Read More

Three in a million – Voices from the Haitian Camps

The United Nations reported there are 1.2 million people living in “spontaneous settlements” or homeless camps around Port au Prince. Three people living in the camps spoke with this author this week, before the hard rains hit. Jean Dora, 71 My name is Jean Dora. I was born in 1939....

February 19th, 2010 | Featured, Haiti | Read More

U.S. Brags Haiti response is a “Model” while more than a million remain homeless in Haiti

Despite the fact that over a million people remained homeless in Haiti one month after the earthquake, the U.S. Ambassador to Haiti, Ken Merten, is quoted at a State Department briefing on February 12, saying “In terms of humanitarian aid delivery…frankly, it’s working really well,...

February 14th, 2010 | Haiti | Read More

Haiti numbers – 27 days after quake

890 million. Amount of international debt that Haiti owes creditors. Finance ministers from developing countries announced they will forgive $290 million. Source: Wall Street Journal 644 million. Donations for Haiti to private organizations have exceed $644 million. Over $200 million has gone to the...

February 9th, 2010 | Featured, Haiti | Read More

Haiti – Still Starving 23 Days Later

You can walk down many of the streets of Port au Prince and see absolutely no evidence that the world community has helped Haiti. Twenty three days after the earthquake jolted Haiti and killed over 200,000 people, as many as a million people have still not received any international food assistance. On...

February 5th, 2010 | Featured, Haiti | Read More

The Haiti Hustle: Street vendors in Port-Au-Prince sell U.S. Aid in black market

This is not an original report. The information presented here was collected from various media outlets. The Christian Science Monitor and Reuters reported that Haitian street vendors are selling portions of rice from U.S. food-aid bags for 22 gourdes each ($0.55) in Haiti’s capital city Port-Au-Prince. “It...

February 5th, 2010 | Featured, Haiti | Read More

‘We Are The World’: 25th Anniversary remake

“I know that [Lionel Richie] has been asked like 150-something times to redo ‘We Are the World’ and he said no to everything until this Haiti thing happened. The moment he saw that it happened he was like, OK, ‘We Are the World.’ And to be one of the people they called to have fresh input to...

February 3rd, 2010 | Featured, Haiti | Read More

Ten Baptist workers arrested for child trafficking in Haiti

The group of Americans who were arrested for "abduction" in Haiti. AP photo PORT-AU-PRINCE – Jan 31, 2010 - Ten Baptist church workers will appear in a Haitian court tomorrow for attempting to transport illegally 33 Haitian children by bus in an attempt to save children, the workers...

January 31st, 2010 | Featured, Haiti | Read More

Hell and hope

Race-Talk contributor Bill Quigley is on the ground in Haiti his latest diary entry Smoke and flames rose from the sidewalk. A white man took pictures. Slowing down, my breath left me. The fire was a corpse. Leg bones sticking out of the flames. Port-au-Prince police headquarters is gone, already bulldozed....

January 29th, 2010 | Haiti | Read More

On the ground in Port au Prince

Hundreds of thousands of people are living and sleeping on the ground in Port au Prince. Many have no homes, their homes destroyed by the earthquake. I am sleeping on the ground as well – surrounded by nurses, doctors and humanitarian workers who sleep on the ground every night. The buildings...

January 28th, 2010 | Featured, Haiti | Read More