Information About Haiti

At its annual fundraiser, on Thursday, the St. Boniface Haiti Foundation will honor four “champions” who have given time and money to the organization’s relief work in Haiti.

A 7.0-magnitude earthquake rattled Haiti on Jan.12, and United Nations advisors said the disaster not only shook the foundation of the Caribbean nation, but completely changed its development course.

UNITED NATIONS (Xinhua) – A 7.0-magnitude earthquake rattled Haiti on Jan.12, and United Nations advisors said the disaster not only shook the foundation of the Caribbean nation, but completely changed its development course. “I think only one ministry building was able to survive the earthquake,” Fernando Hiraldo del Castillo, United Nations Development Program (UNDP) advisor for Latin America …

Bill Clinton will hold a special session on Haiti’s recovery with the country’s president and prime minister at his annual philanthropy summit as part of what he called an effort to “shake loose” funds promised by governments to the earthquake-devastated island, Reuters reports.

(AP:PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti) U.S. and Haitian officials signed an agreement Monday with a South Korean clothing manufacturer to build garment factories that they said will employ 10,000 people in this quake-ravaged nation.

Associated Press PETIONVILLE, Haiti — Haiti held its second presidential debate ever Saturday, a sparsely attended event that was short on detailed responses from the candidates and disrupted by multiple power blackouts.