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  • 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.

  • 15 Dec 2010
    Haitians need greater role in earthquake recovery, says report

    Ordinary Haitians want a greater role in rebuilding their country after January’s devastating earthquake, says a new Progressio report.

  • 25 Aug 2010
    Don't forget Haiti, say church development officers

    US church development agency executives have told the world not to forget Haiti, which is still recovering from a devastating earthquake.

  • 13 Jul 2010
    Haiti quake disaster 'still seems like yesterday', says priest

    Six months after a calamitous earthquake hit the desperately poor nation of Haiti, people feel as if it was 'only yesterday', an Anglican priest has told ENI.