ACT Appeal: Emergency Response to Hurricanes Fay, Gustav, Hanna and Ike, Haiti (AlertNet)
Action by Churches Together (ACT) - Switzerland Appeal Haiti Haiti - Emergency Response to Hurricanes Fay, Gustav, Hanna, Ike - LAHT 81 Appeal Target: US$ 1,295,152 Balance Requested from ACT Alliance US$ 644,055 Geneva, 14 ...

M-DCPS Lends Helping Hand To Haiti (CBS4 Miami)
The 2008 hurricane season is one the people in Haiti will never forget. Four tropical systems slammed the impoverished country and left thousands in need of help. But Tuesday, the Miami-Dade County Public School system stepped in to lend a helping hand.

Two Die In Haiti Chopper Crash (Local 10 Miami)
At least two people have died in a chopper crash in Haiti, and two Florida driver's licenses were found in the wreckage.

Haiti's lax regulation yields unsafe buildings (McClatchy Washington Bureau)
LABOULE, Haiti -- The rusty trucks groan as they climb the rugged mountain one after another, puffing toward a loading station to be filled with tons of sand scraped off the ridge. In this dirt-poor nation, the construction process often begins at this rock pit midway up a bleached mountain outside Port-au-Prince where sand entrepreneurs load up, then fan out across the capital in search of ...

Canadians accused of sex assault at Haiti orphanage (AFP via Yahoo! News)
A Canadian humanitarian aid worker pleaded guilty on Monday to sexual assault on young orphans in Haiti in 2006 and 2007, and was sentenced to three years in jail.