Haiti
Office and Community Manager – Haiti
Volunteer Opportunity Office and Community Manager - Project Perpetual Help Haiti Help significantly those affected by the earthquake in Haiti. Contribute to the development and implementation of Project Perpetual Help Haiti. Become a member of the newly established CTF-SOS DRS community in Port au Prince where we live, work and worship together. CTF-SOS DRS is an international, [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )July 8 – Haiti – Eternal Weight
Haiti’s Eternal Weight “According to our research and conversations with aid groups in Haiti, less than 5 percent of this [debris] has been removed since January, and even less has been properly disposed of. Based on our calculations … we estimate that it could take 20 years or more.” Fr. Scott Comment: Eternal Weight. I wasn’t sure [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )July 6 – Haiti and Chile – Lessons Learned
Earthquake devastation – Lessons learned from Haiti and Chile. The Daily Star [Dhaka, Bangladesh] – “But if we look at the recent earthquakes in Chile and Haiti, the Richter scale magnitude appears as not the major factor that contributed to the damages. Chile earthquake was far stronger (8.8 magnitude) than the Haiti earthquake (7.0 magnitude) [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )July 4 – Haiti – Camps of Despair
Haiti’s Camps of Despair [Montreal Gazette] Six months after the earthquake, life in Haiti’s 1,300 camps is crowded, unsanitary and increasingly dangerous. Sue Montgomery goes back to Port-au-Prince and finds electricity, water and schools, but little real shelter in the makeshift settlements. And for most people, proper housing is years away. – Fr. Scott [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )July 3 – Haiti – Elections?
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – President Rene Preval on Wednesday rejected U.S. Senate proposals for upcoming elections in Haiti and said one of them could even sow “anarchy” in the earthquake-shattered Caribbean country. Fr. Scott Comment: Haiti’s tumultuous electoral history promises to be only more so in the wake of the seismic shift that took place on January [...]
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