Since the devastating January earthquake near Port-au-Prince, the need in Haiti has been of principle concern for many of the aid groups on campus. However, some UT students have been working to bring aid to Haiti even before the earthquake struck. Give Haiti Hope, a new organization at UT, is …
G.J. McCARTHY/DMNThe players, missing hands or feet, have been practicing in Frisco in preparation for competition in World Amputee Football’s World Cup event. The men are a sign not only of Haiti’s rebirth after the deadly January earthquake but also of social progress in a nation that has historically shunned people with disabilities.
PORT AU PRINCE, HAITI—At the Oasis Institute, an orphanage in the midst of this city’s devastation, there is hope and promise in the bright eyes of the young girls. Some 35 of them, neatly dressed and spruced up for visitors, stare intently at members of the Haiti Support Project (HSP) delegation. What they cannot express in words glows incessantly from their eyes.
In the late 1950s, When Maryse Déjean was a child in her mother’s arms, the infamous Tonton Macoutes burst into their home in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, looking for her diplomat father, Joseph.Albert Grandoit, left, Maryse Dejean and Marc Bien-AimeJoseph Déjean, Haiti’s…
Even before candidates in Haiti’s Nov. 28 elections began battling it out with billboards, they were already fighting one of the dirtiest battles of Haiti politics – graffiti campaign wars.
Study finds that quakes occurring on faults not previously believed to often produce tsunamis can in fact do so, report says. Experts say coastal California needs to be better prepared. Haiti and Jamaica are at greater risk for destructive tsunamis than previously believed, according to a new study of tsunamis generated during the catastrophic Haiti earthquake in January.
An unusual discovery about how earthquakes triggered tsunami waves in Haiti could mean that similar coastal cities, including Los Angeles, are at a higher risk from these deadly waves.
When surgeons from Harvard Medical School went to Haiti soon after last January’s earthquake, they took along some experimental three-dollar devices they hoped would help victims’ wounds heal faster. The devices had never been tested in patients before, but they didn’t need electricity, and they could be operated by the average person — exactly what was needed in the post-earthquake devastation.
Members of the United States Congress expressed concern that Haiti had excluded candidates from more than a dozen parties.
Five university students from Haiti, who survived that country’s devastating earthquake in January, are getting a new start at the University of Winnipeg.