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05
2011
Haiti Mission
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Eighteen months after the massive and devastating earthquake, Haiti is still reeling from the wreckage and a cholera epidemic. Ray Suarez and Dr. Paul Farmer discuss his new book, „Haiti After the Earthquake.“ Video Rating: 5 / 5 In this short video, families from Camp Django in Delmas 17 left the space they have called [...]
A Partners In Health-supported clinic in Haiti draws women from far and wide, offering specialized maternal health care. The OBGYN-led surgical team is at once, proud and overwhelmed… hoping for relief from the new hospital in Mirebalais.
Little Havana is a well known neighborhood in Miami, Florida. But Cubans are not the only immigrants with an area of the city all their own. VOA’s Alex Villarreal introduces us to the sights, sounds and celebrations of one of South Florida’s most vibrant communities.
Almost a year after a nationwide outbreak, the spread of the waterborne disease cholera is showing no signs of ending in Haiti. So far, more than 6000 have died and about 400000 have been infected, with people often relying on rivers as their main source of water for drinking, bathing and washing. Epidemiologists say the [...]
New revelations from WikiLeaks show how the US micromanaged Haiti’s economy and politics to align it to US interests. Al Jazeera’s Imran Garda reports.
Haiti is a poor country but it is rich in natural resources. The country grows some of the world’s finest mangoes and it is one of the country’s biggest exports after textiles. It should have a thriving mango industry but it only exports 10 per cent of its crop because of poor infrastructure. Al Jazeera’s [...]
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Haitian President Michel Martelly returned to Haiti on Thursday after doctors in Miami performed surgery on his left shoulder. Haiti’s President Michel Martelly, center, his left arm in a sling after undergoing surgery on his shoulder, looks on upon his return from Miami at the Toussaint Louverture airport in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, [...]
Many of Haiti’s more than 600000 still displaced by country’s devastating 2010 earthquake and forced to live on private property, are now struggling to finding shelter again. A significant number have already been left with nowhere to go after evicted from their meager tents by landowners trying to take back control of their property. Some [...]