Looking Back on World Water Day 2009 | Haiti Innovation
World Water Day has come and gone. About 1.1 billion people still do not have access to safe drinking water, and two in every five people on the planet still have no access to a proper toilet. The international community has become increasingly aware of the disastrous consequences of the status quo for public health and economic growth.
Haiti jails former pension CEO in laundering case
The former CEO of Haiti’s national pension fund has been arrested and jailed on money laundering charges.
Conditions in Haiti Merit TPS for Haitians
The inscription on the Statue of Liberty should read ‘Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free-unless they are Haitian’. During the week of February 16, 2009, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced that, ‘based on conditions on the ground’ in Haiti, the U.S. has deemed it appropriate to resume …
Giving birth is fraught with danger in Haiti
The pain was different from before _ deeper, sharper. Everyone else was sleeping in the banana grove shack, but Yslande Aristide could not bear it. She stood on the dirt floor and started to scream.
In rushed her sisters with candles and water. Then came the midwife, who made tea from a leaf called ti-zan and told the howling 23-year-old to drink it.
Then she looked under her patient and saw the baby’s foot. Aristide’s fifth child was breech, a life-threatening birth position that under normal medical care would require a Cesarean section.
Kid Pics by Paige
Paige has become interested in photography and spent some of her afternoon photographing her fan club. (Or at least the core group of her fan club.) Most of her subjects cooperated, but not everyone loved it. Click on the photo to make it larger.
Coast Guard returns 146 Haitian migrants
The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Legare returned 146 Haitian migrants to Cap Haitien, Haiti, Friday morning.
Cardinal George urges Obama to grant Haiti Temporary Protected Status
Cardinal Francis George, president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, has asked President Barack Obama on March 19 to designate Haiti as a nation with Temporary Protected Status .
Haiti Benefit supper and auction set for Saturday
The 10th annual Haiti Benefit supper and auction is scheduled for Saturday. Food, including chicken, pork, sausage, scalloped potatoes, green beans, will be served beginning at 2:30 p.m. with an auction to follow at 3 p.m. at Dinky’s Auction Center, CR 900E.
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The Rockland County Jews for Justice urges the designation of the country of Haiti for Temporary Protected Status.
Haiti: UN Council mission reports strides in security, worrisome poverty
Haiti is making strides in security sector and judicial reform but continues to grapple with widespread poverty and vulnerability to disasters, the leader of a United Nations Security Council mission to the impoverished Caribbean nation said today.