06Mar

With Haitian Schools in Ruins, Children in Limbo

Posted by ADMiN as Children and Youth, Earthquakes, Education and Schools, Haiti, New York Times, News

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Earthquake-damaged schools in and around the capital could stay closed for months or never reopen, officials say.

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05Mar

Haitian Singer and His Guitar Fight Urge to Weep

Posted by ADMiN as Disasters and Emergencies, Earthquakes, Haiti, Music, New York Times, News

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Beken, known for songs about redemption, lost his home and is struggling to find the will to make music again.

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24Feb

Questions Surface After Haitian Airlift

Posted by ADMiN as Adoptions, Children and Youth, Haiti, New York Times, News, Orphans and Orphanages, Pittsburgh (Pa)

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Twelve of the 52 children transported from Haiti to Pennsylvania last month were not in the process of being adopted and might not all even be orphans.

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22Feb

Countless Lost Limbs Alter Life in Haiti’s Ruins

Posted by ADMiN as Amputation, Haiti, Handicapped, New York Times, News, Physical Therapy, Therapy and Rehabilitation

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New amputees are facing life in a shattered country that has never been hospitable to the disabled.

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21Feb

Could a Start-Up Competition Help Haiti?

Posted by ADMiN as Andrew Hyde, Clint Nelsen, Foodspotting, Haiti, Marc Nager, Melissa Carrier, Mugasha, New York Times, News, Piryx, Shaherose Charania, Skribit, SnapImpact.org, Startup Weekend, The Prize, Tom Serres, Women 2.0

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Attempts to organize a Startup Weekend in Nigeria in 2008 failed because the non-profit lacked a network in the country to help secure a venue, promote the event, and recruit participants.

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20Feb

Poor Sanitation in Haiti’s Tent Camps Adds to Risk of Disease

Posted by ADMiN as Bathrooms and Toilets, Cholera, Earthquakes, Epidemics, Haiti, International Committee of the Red Cross, Medicine and Health, New York Times, News, Refugees and Displaced Persons, Typhoid, Waste Materials and Disposal

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Public health specialists consider the diseases stemming from the buildup of human waste in tent camps as possibly the most pressing health threat in the ravaged country.

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19Feb

On Religion: Myths Obscure Voodoo, Source of Comfort in Haiti

Posted by ADMiN as Earthquakes, Haiti, New York Times, News, Religion and Belief, Robertson, Pat, Voodoo

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Dismissive attitudes follow a history of misrepresentation in American journalism and popular culture.

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18Feb

Judge Releases Eight Americans Jailed in Haiti

Posted by ADMiN as Children and Youth, Earthquakes, Haiti, Human Trafficking, Kidnapping, New York Times, News, Prisons and Prisoners

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Eight of 10 Americans arrested on child abduction charges were ordered released after the parents testified.

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16Feb

Missionaries in Haiti Skeptical of Newcomers

Posted by ADMiN as Disasters and Emergencies, Earthquakes, Haiti, Missionaries, New York Times, News

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As a broad band of religious groups rush to Haiti, what seems to divide missionaries most is how long they have been working in the country.

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15Feb

Trafficking Charges for Adviser to Jailed Americans in Haiti

Posted by ADMiN as El Salvador, Haiti, Human Trafficking, New York Times, News, Puello, Jorge, Sexual Slavery

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A man who falsely portrayed himself as a lawyer in Haiti is at large with Salvadoran charges pending against him.

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15Feb

Haiti Emerges From Its Shock, and Tears Roll

Posted by ADMiN as Earthquakes, Funerals, Grief (Emotions), Haiti, New York Times, News

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After a numb month during which few individuals had ceremonies to mark their deaths, grief is pouring out at memorials and funerals.

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13Feb

Church Adviser May Face Warrant

Posted by ADMiN as Central Valley Baptist Church, Earthquakes, El Salvador, Haiti, Human Trafficking, Kidnapping, New York Times, News, Puello, Jorge

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The man providing legal advice to American church members arrested in Haiti may have charges against him in the United States and a warrant for his arrest in El Salvador for sex trafficking.

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13Feb

Doctors Haunted by Haitians They Couldn’t Help

Posted by ADMiN as Carrefour SA, Earthquakes, Haiti, Haitian-Americans, Humanitarian Aid, Medicine and Health, New York Times, News

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Many of the foreign medical workers who initially flew to Haiti are now overwhelmed by their experiences and the limits to what they could do there.

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13Feb

Doctors Haunted by Haitians They Couldn’t Help

Posted by ADMiN as Earthquakes, Haiti, Haitian-Americans, Humanitarian Aid, Medicine and Health, New York Times, News

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Many of the foreign medical workers who initially flew to Haiti are now overwhelmed by their experiences and the limits to what they could do there.

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12Feb

Doctors Haunted by Haitians They Couldn’t Help

Posted by ADMiN as Amputation, Doctors, Earthquakes, Haiti, Hospitals, Medicine and Health, New York Times, News

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Many of the foreign medical workers who initially flew to Haiti are now overwhelmed by their experiences and the limits to what they could do there.

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12Feb

Adviser to Detained Americans in Haiti Is Investigated

Posted by ADMiN as Baptist Churches, Children and Youth, Decisions and Verdicts, Haiti, Human Trafficking, Idaho, New York Times, News, Orphans and Orphanages, Saint-Vil, Bernard

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The Salvadoran police are trying to determine whether the adviser and a suspect in a human trafficking case are the same person.

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11Feb

Finding Parents in Haiti’s Rubble Was Easy Part

Posted by ADMiN as Earthquakes, Families and Family Life, Haiti, Immigration and Emigration, Medicine and Health, New York Times, News

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In Haiti, a Chicagoan found his family, only to encounter one bureaucratic or logistical hurdle after another.

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09Feb

Americans Jailed in Haiti Plead for Aid From U.S.

Posted by ADMiN as Earthquakes, Haiti, Kidnapping, Missionaries, New York Times, News, Prisons and Prisoners

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The 10 Americans detained on child kidnapping charges say the U.S. government could be doing more.

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09Feb

Paperwork Hinders Airlifts of Ill Haitian Children

Posted by ADMiN as Airlifts, Airlines and Airplanes, Children and Youth, Haiti, Hospitals, Humanitarian Aid, New York Times, News

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Doctors and aid workers are wrestling with proving that they are not illegally transporting children, whose risk of dying is rising while the paperwork awaits.