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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.
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 » More Photos GONAIVES, Haiti — In a cathedral surrounded by mud and flood waters, the 34-year-old… Read More ›
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.
US Navy reaches Haiti as floodwaters recede
The sun came out in Haiti on Monday as waters from Hurricane Ike receded and a U.S. Navy hospital ship equipped with helicopters and amphibious boats was arriving in the capital to deliver food and water to cities still marooned by flooding.
But Haiti — and the world — still lacks a complete picture of the destruction, and desperation was setting in among people who have spent days in the floodwaters and mud.
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.
Eureka: Haiti Has a New Government!
It’s official! The curtain has come down on Act III: Michèle Pierre-Louis is now officially the Honorable Prime Minister of Haiti. It took 146 days for the Honorable Members of the Haitian Parliament and His Excellency René Préval to come to an agreement on a new leader
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