Helping Haiti
As the one-year anniversary of the Haitian earthquake approaches, this series brings readers inside relief operations in Leogane, the earthquake's epicenter, to look at the everyday realities of providing and receiving aid, how aid works (or doesn't), and the unintended consequences — good and bad — of help. Using a unique combination of journalistic and ethnographic methods, this series investigates this world through the eyes of an embedded reporter and volunteer, creating a vivid illustration of life amid crisis in Haiti. The dispatches that emerge from this study reveal the sometimes messy, occasionally troubling, but always very human story of crisis met with philanthropic ambitions.
Haiti After Hurricane Tomas
In November 2010, Hurricane Tomas threatened to reverse months of post-earthquake relief efforts in Haiti. News organizations flew journalists to the island from all over the globe to cover the predicted catastrophe as aid organizations and Haiti’s government braced for the storm. Terri Bennett took photographs from an aid worker’s perspective the day after Hurricane Tomas hit the island.
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Categories: Haiti, Watch, Poverty and Development, Global Health
Beneath the Headlines Quiet crises linger in the shadow of a hurricane and cholera outbreak in Haiti
Before Terri Bennett landed in Haiti, she'd seen the destruction in the news. The National Palace looking like a puzzle that should be put back together. The tent camps. The trash. Now, she says what's most difficult to grapple with is the long road leading back to "normal, everyday life" for Haitians.
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Categories: Haiti, Read, Commentary, Poverty and Development, Global Health
Breaking the Rubble Rules
Rubble covers much of Haiti's streets, making driving – even walking – chaotic. Rubble has become an every day reality – and so have the rules for dealing with it.
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Categories: Haiti, Blogs, Commentary, Poverty and Development
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