Campfire Cooking
S’mores are our Minnesota campfire specialty. Here in Haiti they kick it up a notch and actually feed many families a full meal from giant pots of rice and beans. Lately Jeronne has been hearing lots of compliments about how good her rice and beans are … Which is true and has inspired her to make them more often … Which has meant we eat it more often … Which has meant a couple of pounds on
Haiti, Venezuela pose early tests for Obama administration
The Obama administration is getting an early reality check on some of the sticky issues facing U.S. foreign policy in this hemisphere.
Haitians facing deportation look to Obama for help
The United States is set to deport more than 30,000 Haitians to their impoverished homeland, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials announced this week.
UN Voluntary Trust Fund Makes Small Grants Available to Fight Slavery | Haiti Innovation
The United Nations Voluntary Trust Fund on Contemporary Forms of Slavery makes grants available for up to $15,000 for programs of humanitarian, legal and financial assistance to individuals whose human rights have been violated as a result of contemporary forms of slavery…
InterIntel’s Approach to Clean Energy in Haiti | Haiti Innovation
Below is a reader blog by Daniel Schnitzer, the Director of InterIntel. InterIntel is a small organization that specializes in innovative environmental management and alternative energy projects…
COHA Readership Responds to Haiti Analysis
Council on Hemispheric Affairs Below, COHA is reprinting several letters that it recently received in response to its research finding issued on February 9, 2009, “‘The Rock in the Sun’: Haiti’s Préval Pleads For the U.S. and Rest of the World to End Global Negligence Towards Latin America’s Poorest Country.”
Louis Michel Inaugurates Humanitarian Office in Haiti
Louis Michel, European Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid, is on a two-day visit to Haiti.
Love from Annie ~ Lydie B. ~ Phoebe
Dear Grandma & Grandpa,We miss you – we love you – we want you to see how big we’re getting! When will you come visit us again!?!? Let’s get something on the calendar because as you can imagine we are quite popular and that sort of demand causes our schedules to fill quickly. Please check with our manager and let her know when you’ll next be heading south. We are saving our very best tricks for
Doctor talks to UM students about work in Third World countries – Miami-Dade
As a world-renowned physician, Dr. Paul Farmer has brought his approach to public health to some of the most gut-wrenching places in the world.