More Haitian adoptees bound for Canada
More Haitian adoptees bound for Canada A Citizenship and Immigration Canada volunteer carries a Haitian child at the Ottawa airport on Wednesday, Jan.
U.N. Retools Food Distribution in Haiti
After two weeks of often chaotic food distribution, the United Nations announced plans on Saturday for a coupon-based system that aims to give rice to 10,000 Haitians a day at each of 16 locations around Port-au-Prince. The new program – with the first coupons delivered Saturday, and food to be distributed Sunday – ends what officials described as …
Desperation grows in Haiti, officials worry about santitation as well as food, water, shelter
A lack of sanitation threatens to create killer diseases in the vast refugee camps where hundreds of thousands of earthquake survivors have crammed in together, relief officials said Saturday, as the need for latrines increasingly joined food and water and shelter as major concerns.
PIH co-founder Paul Farmer testifies at Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Dr. Paul Farmer, PIH co-Founder and United Nations Deputy Special Envoy for Haiti, recently testified at the “Haiti: From Rescue to Reconstruction” hearing of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee yesterday.
You can still buy Haitian coffee
Just Haiti is a tiny 501(c)(3) (tax exempt) organization working with growers in Baradères, a remote impoverished area with a rich history of coffee growing –
Task of rebuilding Haiti expected to be ambitious, arduous
In a modest office in the neighborhood of Petionville, Haiti, engineers, architects, aid workers and government officials are working on the earthquake-ravaged country’s future.
Desperation, but no violence seen in Haiti
When our helicopter flew into Port-au-Prince, it almost felt like we were on some silent glide.
UN receives up to $2 bn for Haiti quake
United Nations agencies involved in assisting Haiti have received donations and pledges worth up to $2 billion, the top UN humanitarian emergency coordinator said.
Canadian military brings mobile surgical unit to hard hit Haitian community
The Canadian military has helped provide a critical medical facility in the earthquake ravaged Haitian community of Jacmel.
Cost Dispute Halts Airlift of Injured Haiti Quake Victims
The United States has suspended its medical evacuations of critically injured Haitian earthquake victims until a dispute over who will pay for their care is settled, military officials said Friday.