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  • 14 Jan 2013
    Urgent action needed on housing three years after Haiti 'quake

    Three years on from the Haiti earthquake the housing situation in the country is nothing short of catastrophic, say aid and human rights organisations.

  • 11 Jan 2013
    The Haitian people are key to rebuilding

    This week marks the third anniversary of the appalling earthquake in Haiti. I have written about this for the Catholic Herald and Ekklesia (http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/17774), and have witnessed myself the struggle to rebuild and recover.

  • 11 Jan 2013
    Seeking hope after catastrophe for Haiti

    It is three years since the devastating Haiti earthquake. Pascale Palmer from the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development looks at the task of rebuilding supported by CAFOD and others, and the immense challenges faced by the people of the country. She also draws attention to a campaign for changes in the global food system that could help prevent food insecurity in countries like Haiti.

  • 18 Mar 2012
    Haiti: debt is the disaster, too

    In 2010 an earthquake ripped through Haiti killing more than 200,000, making millions homeless. Speaking to Haitians now, they date everything from that day – “après le douze”, “avant le douze” meaning after or before the twelfth of January when the 7.0 magnitude quake shook itself out from near the capital Port au Prince.

  • 16 Mar 2012
    Haitians need partnership not colonial patronage

    On Sunday 11 March 2012 I travelled out to a community called Fonds Jean Noel, two hours from the Haitian capital Port au Prince up a jaw-breaking road of loose rocks and scree.

  • 13 Mar 2012
    Right-headed defiance in Haiti

    It’s taken me a few days to get my head even part of the way around Haiti: it’s a strange and wonderful place that has so many signs and so few destinations. What I mean by that is that you see here the beginnings of things and the leftovers of things, but they often don’t seem to lead far. As though the events and history of this half of the Hispaniola island have always been in a constant stop-start mode. It’s as though there are so many influences culturally, politically, religiously - not to ever forget the impacts of serial natural disasters - that few things move in a linear manner to a meaningful conclusion.

  • 27 Apr 2011
    Haitians look past the quake toward 'the life ahead' at Easter

    Residents of the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince marked Easter 2011 by looking past the rubble of the recent quake and placing hopes on a better future.

  • 27 Apr 2011
    Haitians look past the quake toward 'the life ahead' at Easter

    Residents of the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince marked Easter 2011 by looking past the rubble of the recent quake and placing hopes on a better future.

  • 3 Feb 2011
    The Haiti disaster and faith-based relief

    'Faith-based' programmes often get a bad press, especially when they are seen to compromise welfare with proseytising motives. But Jonathan C. Bergman shows in relation to the experience in Haiti, one year after the tragic 2010 earthquake, that there is another, positive side to the story.

  • 7 Jan 2011
    Report reveals sexual violence in Haiti's camps

    A new report from Amnesty International says women and girls living in Haiti’s makeshift camps face an increasing risk of rape and sexual violence.