collecting shoes for Haiti
My sister gave me the best christmas present this past winter. In a red box were a pair of little green crocs. She knew I wanted to start collecting crocs for the children. I thought once we received our referral I would start this …
A Reprieve in the Haitian Countryside
It is so great to visit with them, and see a softer, gentler side of Haiti. It is much safer here. You can walk around without fearing a mugging (or worse). They leave their doors unlocked. They seem to be friends with everyone in the …
Haiti: Lovinsky Pierre Antoine - Still Missing After Nine Months
That coup ousted Haiti’s first democratically elected Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide only seven months after his inauguration. According to human rights groups there were five thousand people killed by the military regime of …
Postcard Perfect: Heading Home to Haiti, a Myss Moxie Special IX
MYSS MOXIE CHRONICLES HER TRAVELS TO HAITI VIA BLOGOSPHERE: Ain’t nothing like waking up to the sound of waves crashing on the beach. ahhh. Jacmel is beautiful in the morning. After we ate breakfast, we picked up a couple of paintings …
An unwilling sitting for Citizensit http://it.youtube.com/citizensit Haiti by Josephine Baker 
4 in. x 6 in. / 10 in. staff 
3 ft. x 5 ft. 
An hour south of Miami is the Western Hemisphere’s poorest nation. In 2004, the democratically elected president Jean-Bertrand Aristide was taken against his will from Haiti in an American helicopter. Having been deposed once with CIA backing in 1991, the 2004 coup d’etat was not the first American intervention into Haitian politics, nor will it likely be the last.
Airdate: 05/04/08 Twenty five years ago, Dr. Paul Farmer found his life’s work in Haiti, in one of the poorest parts of one of the poorest countries in the world. Since then, Dr. Farmer has dedicated his life to delivering medical care to the impoverished through his organization, Partners in Health. Now working in nine countries, Partners in Health is saving lives in places where no one thought there was any reason for hope. Byron Pitts reports.
When Haitians tell a story, they say “Krik?” and the eager listeners answer “Krak!” In Krik? Krak! In her second novel, Edwidge Danticat establishes herself as the latest heir to that narrative tradition with nine stories that encompass both the cruelties and the high ideals of Haitian life. They tell of women who continue loving behind prison walls and in the face of unfathomable loss; of a people who resist the brutality of their rulers through the powers of imagination. The result is a collection that outrages, saddens, and transports the reader with its sheer beauty.
