Haiti’s Misery

Haiti’s Misery, Editorial, The New York Times, March 26, 2010 The emergency in Haiti isn’t over. It’s getting worse, as the outside world’s attention fades away. Misery rages like a fever in the hundreds of camps sheltering hundreds of thousands of the 1.3 million people left homeless by the Jan. 12 earthquake. The dreaded rains have already swamped tents and ragged stick-and-tarp huts. They have turned walkways into mud lakes and made difficult or impossible the simple acts of collecting and cooking food, washing clothes, staying clean and avoiding disease. The rainy season peaks in May. More...

Keeping the Focus on Haiti at Teaching for Change's Busboys and Poets Bookstore

Keeping the Focus on Haiti at Teaching for Change's Busboys and Poets Bookstore--Books and Resources on Its People and History
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TransAfrica Forum's Haiti petition and other resources

Other Worlds Are Possible - rebuilding a just Haiti

Teaching about Haiti - downloadable teaching guide and resource links

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HAITI: Watching the Sky with Dread

HAITI: Watching the Sky with Dread, by Daniel Zueras, Inter Press News Service, March 25, 2010 With the spring rains and hurricane season just around the corner in Haiti, some 600,000 people are still living in camps, many in areas prone to flooding. And plans to provide solutions for the survivors of the devastating Jan. 12 earthquake are moving forward slowly. More...

HAITI: Artists Join UN to Rebuild Cultural Life

HAITI: Artists Join UN to Rebuild Cultural Life, by A. D. McKenzie, Inter Press Service News Agency, March 25, 2010 As international donors prepare to meet at the United Nations headquarters in New York to discuss ways to rebuild Haiti, after the devastating Jan. 12 earthquake, the country’s artistic community has been mobilising to make culture a key aspect of reconstruction. More...

South Africa: Aid Shipment Destined for Haiti

South Africa: Aid Shipment Destined for Haiti, BuaNews (posted on allAfrica.com), March 12, 2010 A shipment of aid is expected to leave South Africa on Freedom Day, April 27, for Haiti in solidarity with the world's first black republic, the Minister of Defence and Military Veterans, Lindiwe Sisulu, announced today. More...

Liberian Group Makes Donation to Haiti Earthquake Victims

Liberian Group Makes Donation to Haiti Earthquake Victims, Liberian Government (posted on allAfrica.com), March 25, 2010 Cash in the amount of L$25,000 and US$200, collected by a group from Maryland County, was today presented to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for onforwarding to the people of Haiti, in the wake of the devastating earthquake which hit that island country in January. More...

DEVELOPMENT: Haiti Must Destroy Before Rebuilding

DEVELOPMENT: Haiti Must Destroy Before Rebuilding, by Garry Pierre-Pierre. Inter Press Service News Agency, March 22, 2010 When the Jan. 12 earthquake struck this mountainous country, in less than a minute, it transformed it from one of the poorest countries in the Western Hemisphere to the largest construction site this side of the Atlantic. More...