Hurricanes’ Toll on Haiti: Massive!

This is a disaster that calls on all people of good will, Haitian and non-Haitian alike, to help Haiti recover from this nightmare that could not have come at a worse time as the global economy is rocked by the near collapse of the US financial system.

What do we do as individuals in response to distress calls?

I have been in communications with many friends and colleagues who naturally wanted to spring into action at the news that Haiti had indeed weathered great damage following the battering by tropical storms Fay, Gustav, Hanna and Ike. As in 2004, Gonaives became a muddy lake that trapped more than 250,000 people in a deathly grip.

Hello, Tamara… Please Don’t Let Me Down!

Fond des Blancs activists Canes and Marie-Therese Maignan who have been involved with the county’s children’s rights committee have been deeply affected by the storms that battered Haiti in the country’s south. It’s hard to imagine that a worse fate could have fallen onto their shoulders as they were barely unable to make ends meet while struggling for social change in their community.

Children in Servitude, the Poorest of Haiti’s Poor - NYTimes.com

On this site, I have called attention to Haiti’s dirty little secret, the fact that tens of thousands of minds are literally being wasted, because they are cast-offs as slaves, nothing but slaves. Several reports describe the utter despair that Haitians are experiencing as the result of the wreck that is now Haiti after being [...]

ANALYSIS-Deadly storms a big setback for impoverished Haiti | Reuters.com

The sight of the Haitian port city of Gonaives sitting in a slick of polluted water is only the most visible symbol of the damage done to the Caribbean nation of 9 million by four consecutive storms this summer.

Hurricanes and Haiti - Los Angeles Times

Human poverty is hugely susceptible to nature’s depredations, and Haiti, one of the world’s poorest countries, has again and again been the victim of demonically destructive wind, rain and flood.

In flooded Haitian city, `Every home is a shelter’ - 09/11/2008 - MiamiHerald.com

In flooded Haitian city, `Every home is a shelter’
Posted on Thu, Sep. 11, 2008
Associated Press

ARIANA CUBILLOS/AP PHOTO
A woman reacts as flood victims line up to received food from UN peacekeepers in Gonaives, Haiti, Thursday
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GONAIVES, Haiti –
In a cathedral surrounded by mud and flood waters, the 34-year-old motorcycle taxi driver shivers on a pew, [...]

Haiti: After the Storms, the Riots

“If we don’t find a way to deliver massive humanitarian aid, we will see fights and riots that will kill more people than the cyclone did,” warned UN spokeswoman Vicky Delore-Ndjeuga.

A View from Hinche, in Haiti’s Central Highland (Plateau Central)

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Cabaret, Haiti hit hard by Ike; bodies on every street corner

In this tiny Haitian town flooded by Hurricane Ike, the grim reality set in Sunday morning as the bodies of a dozen children lay dead on a concrete slab.