Port-au-prince in the 40's and 50's. Haiti: Art, Music and Dance. Manje kreyòl: resèt pou kèk pla ayisyen. Association Haïtienne pour le Développement des TICs (Haiti) Haiti Soil. By Joel K. Bourne, Jr. Rice makes up 20 percent of the typical Haitian’s diet, and that percentage is growing. In 1981 Haiti imported 18,000 tons of rice.
Now the country imports close to 400,000 tons annually. Less than a quarter is homegrown. “Tè a fatige,” said 70 percent of Haitian farmers in a recent survey when asked about the major agricultural problems they faced. And no wonder. So what do you do if you live in the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere, and the price of the primary carbohydrate—“Miami rice” from the U.S. But there is more at stake than simply the ability of Haitian soil to feed a starving nation. That’s as it should be, officials say. The problem, says ecologist and activist Sasha Kramer, is that these days Haitian farmers can’t sell enough mangoes to afford imported rice. Until then Haiti remains a poignant lesson in what soil scientists have preached for years: As a nation’s soil goes, so goes the nation.
KOSANBA: A Scholarly Association for the Study of Haitian Vodou. Kosanba brochure and program Download the KOSANBA Brochure and Program KOSANBA 2013, colloquium X When Earth Meets Sky: Healing Rites & Sacred Knowledge in Haiti & Beyond Harvard University, Friday, October 18th – Sunday, October 20th, 2013 Conference Highlights: Opening Remarks, Professor Jacob K. Keynote, Professor Donald J. Closing Event, Professors Rachel Beauvoir-Dominique and Didier Dominique, Université d'Etat d'Haiti Read the call for papers... On January 12th, 2010, the Haitian earthquake known as "Goudougoudou" claimed 300,000 souls, and left at least ten million people mourning in Haiti as well as beyond its national borders. In Vodou, as in other African derived religions, intuitive knowledge coupled with wisdom from the ancestors—what we call konesans—is regarded as sacred and worthy of much protection.
In its 10th colloquium, KOSANBA aims to inspire conversations and discussion on healing practices and divine knowledge across the Atlantic. NEWS FLASH: VODOU not VOODOO. Wyclef Jean's Hopes For Haiti, Scott Pelley On The Rock Sta. This story was first published on Jan. 11, 2009. It was updated on July 31, 2009.
To live the life of Wyclef Jean is to believe that almost anything is possible. Wyclef is a Grammy Award winning multimillionaire rock star who comes from Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. He's one of thousands of Haitians who immigrate to the U.S. And many never return. But not Wyclef. As 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley first reported in January, he goes back to Haiti often, using his personal wealth to help his impoverished country. Wyclef's passion and determination have made him a hero to millions of Haitians.
Pelley got to see firsthand how they feel about Wyclef Jean when they visited Cite Soleil, one of the most infamous slums on Earth. Cite Soleil is a sprawling slum by the bay of Port-au-Prince. "They know you're here," Pelley remarked, hearing the cheers. They're coming for Wyclef. "Yeah, they're not gonna give up. "I came from Haiti. . © 2009 CBS. Rescue mission for popular Haitian religion | The Power of Cultu. "That is needed", says Paul Faber, curator Africa at the Tropenmuseum in Amsterdam, "because the island's poor economy has cost so many temples. Ritual objects are sold to cover the medical costs of priests or their families. " To prevent unbridled export, the Foundation for the Preservation, Enhancement and Production of Haitian Cultural Works was established in 1989 (FPVPOCH). This initiative was launched by Marianne Lehmann, a Swiss national who has lived on the island for fifty years.
One day she purchased a vodou object being sold door-to-door to help a priest who was ill. She ended up buying some three thousand of these objects. Bizango room. 250 objects from this unique collection will be shown in a series of European museums to draw attention to this situation. Bizango figure. What kind of support can be found on Haiti itself? Haiti - Shock Doctrine. Haiti Earthquake: Twitter Pictures Sweep Across the Web [PHOTOS] An outpouring of well wishes and support for the Haitian people has swept the web in the wake of a devastating 7.0 earthquake in Haiti. And just like during the Eureka earthquake, tweets have quickly spread moving and gut-wrenching TwitPics of the disaster. Photos taken by journalist @CarelPedre on his mobile phone are providing a glimpse into the devastation that has slammed the Caribbean nation.
Another Twitter user, @MarvinAdy, shared those pictures through TwitPic, resulting in tens of thousands of views and countless retweets. There are also thousands of Facebook and Twitter updates on the disaster appearing every minute. The web has been moved by the plight of the Haitian people. Our best wishes go out to the victims of this devastating natural disaster, as well as their families. Haiti Earthquake in Pictures. News : Haïti : le père de l’étudiante disparue pessimiste sur le. Untitled. Tv5 monde.
Vincent Marissal : En attendant la secousse politique | Vincent. Reconstruire. Dans les grandes capitales du monde, on en parle comme s'il s'agissait de lancer un nouveau programme d'infrastructures nationales pour stimuler une économie en récession. Sur le terrain, on comprend tout de suite qu'il s'agit d'une tâche incommensurable. Une tâche à accomplir avec une population sonnée, traumatisée même, ultra-pauvre, sous-instruite et sans chef de file.
Reconstruire. Il y a quelques semaines, de Montréal, je posais la question: par où recommencer? J'ai réentendu dans ma tête, comme un enregistrement qui tourne en boucle, les promesses de reconstruction faites lors de la rencontre des amis d'Haïti à Montréal, juste avant mon départ pour Port-au-Prince. La première chose que la communauté internationale devrait faire si elle veut vraiment aider ce pays, c'est, au contraire, de prendre officiellement (et non pas par derrière comme en ce moment) le contrôle, ce qui redonnerait un début d'espoir à la population. Il y en aura d'autres. Redirect to Tim Wilson's Profile. The land that wouldn't lie. After weeks of intense media attention, some of the causes of Haiti's glaring poverty are obvious: years of chronic underinvestment, disadvantageous terms of trade, deforestation, soil erosion. What is less well understood is that -- natural disasters aside -- the fundamental reasons for Haiti's current destitution originate as responses to Haitian strength, rather than as the result of Haitian weakness, corruption or incompetence.
Haiti is the only place in the world where colonial slavery was abolished by the slaves themselves, in the face of implacable violence. As historians of the revolution that began there in 1791 have often pointed out, there is good reason to consider it the most subversive event in modern history. Independent Haiti was surrounded by slave colonies in the Caribbean and flanked by slave-owning economies in northern, central and southern America. This extraordinary victory provoked an extraordinary backlash.
New plantations "Death plan" Grotesque inequalities. Information. Haiti: real looters are sitting in Washington|23Jan10|Socialist. Four days after the disaster in Haiti, the media shifted its attention from images of suffering to those of looting. Talk has turned to keeping “law and order”. Haitians are increasingly depicted as savages. But the real savages and looters are the US ruling class. Instead of helping to rebuild Haiti’s infrastructure to meet people’s needs, the US is ensuring that the rich who have plundered Haiti for 200 years get even richer. Ex-president Bill Clinton, now UN special envoy to Haiti, has begun to implement plans to turn north Haiti into a tourist playground, convincing Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines to invest £34 million to build a pier at Labadee.
The US government has made it easy to set up sweatshops in Haiti. Billionaire George Soros has offered £31 million to build a new industrial park. US intervention is making it more difficult for aid to get through and people are, unsurprisingly, trying to fend for themselves. The people of Port-au-Prince are not looting – they are trying to survive. The Shock Doctrine in Haiti » The Comment Factory. You want to hear about chutzpah? You want to hear about sheer gravity-defying audacity? Well, ladies and gentlemen, comrades and friends, prepare to catch your lower jaw. Forget Limbaugh’s racist anxieties. Forget about Pat Robertson drooling about Haiti’s ‘pact with the devil’.
Amidst the Suffering, Crisis in Haiti Offers Opportunities to the U.S.In addition to providing immediate humanitarian assistance, the U.S. response to the tragic earthquake in Haiti earthquake offers opportunities to re-shape Haiti’s long-dysfunctional government and economy as well as to improve the public image of the United States in the region…While on the ground in Haiti, the U.S. military can also interrupt the nightly flights of cocaine to Haiti and the Dominican Republic from the Venezuelan coast and counter the ongoing efforts of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to destabilize the island of Hispaniola. While you’re letting that sink in, let me lay this on you.
Well, quite. Hexayurt-Haiti Fund | Science for Humanity. Volunteer in Haiti addressing PTSD | Haiti Volunteer Network. Untitled. Haiti : Le temps est à la coopération. Amid the devastation in Haiti, still time for a soccer match | J. What happens if you walk into a Haitian neighborhood, pull out a new soccer ball and toss it into the street? Thanks to co-worker and avid soccer fan Bridget Murphy, we can answer that. Before we left Jacksonville, Bridget bought a sweet-looking ball - a replica of the official ball of the 2010 World Cup - and asked us to give it to some Haitian kids.
Read more: Mark Woods and Jon Fletcher's blog from Haiti It took us a while to get around to it, but we can report back to Bridget that we finally inflated the ball and headed into the streets. We had considered taking the ball to a soccer field. And when we got to a street at the foot of the ruins of the Sans-Souci Palace, which was destroyed in an earthquake in 1842 - we found a scene begging for a new soccer ball. A group of kids were kicking around a plastic bottle and swinging around an old iron. I pulled the ball out of a bag I felt like I had stepped into one of those Coca-Cola ads.
It was chaos, but a good chaos. Game on. Haïti-Séisme-Chili : Michèle Bachelet pro. P-au-P, 20 février 2010 [AlterPresse] --- Le ballet des chefs d’Etat se poursuit à Port-au-Prince avec, ce samedi 20 février 2010, la visite de la présidente de la République du Chili, Michèle Bachelet, qui a rencontré son homologue haïtien René Garcia Préval. La reconstruction post-séisme et l’aide bilatérale chilienne figurent au nombre des sujets qui ont été abordés. « Le Chili est un pays de tremblements de terre et nous avons beaucoup d’expériences dans la reconstruction », signale la cheffe d’Etat chilienne.
Ce pays latino-américain compte soutenir le plaidoyer d’Haïti pour les abris provisoires dans les différentes réunions et rencontres qui se tiendront, entre autres, à Cancùn (Mexique) et à New York (États-Unis d’Amérique) sur la reconstruction. En tout, il faudrait 14 milliards de dollars américains pour la reconstruction, selon la banque interaméricaine de développement (Bid). Inside USA - The politics of rice - 04 Jul 08 - Part 1. Rape on the rise in Haiti's camps - Americas, World - The Indepe. Displaced men and women patrol some camps with makeshift arms to ward off attackers; girls wear jeans under their skirts for protection if they go out after dark; temporary women-only health centres are being set up; and NGOs try to deliver aid to dangerous neighbourhoods where women are too scared to go out in search for food.
Sarah Spencer, gender-based violence co-ordinator for the International Rescue Committee (IRC), who arrived in Port-au-Prince two weeks ago, said: "Violence against women was a problem in Haiti before this crisis. Now, women and girls are dramatically more vulnerable to attack. The humanitarian community focuses on food, water and shelter, understandably, but this is at the sake of protection for women. Criminal gangs have regrouped; security is poor; people are sleeping in the streets, too frightened to go inside or else in crowded, unlit camps, surrounded by strangers. Chronicles of an Unplanned Return. Webothon Haiti on USTREAM: Le Webothon des Médias sociaux pour H. Watch without ads Ustream © Search Log in / Sign up With Facebook (faster) Log in or sign up with Facebook See what your friends like and watch, get awesome recommendations Instant login, no passwords or With email or username Forgot your password? Don’t have an account? Go live! Find more broadcasts Expand Video Webothon Haiti Follow Following Unfollow 76 followers Watch without ads Flag this content Please select your reason for flagging this video as inappropriate from the dropdown below.
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Scheduled for March 9-10, the organisers and sponsors claim to be working on "reconstruction principles" identified at last month's Montreal Conference on Haiti hosted by Prime Minister Harper. However, Caricom, which participated in the Montreal Conference and which has been mandated by Haiti to function as its special advocate at international fora in relation to the country's post-earthquake reconstruction, received no invitation or official information about this upcoming summit. The Agenda France's "aid" Haiti-Séisme : Plus d’un mois après, amél.
Rapport de l’Organisation Panaméricaine de la Santé [1] Repris par AlterPresse le 21 février 2010 Plus d’un mois après le séisme, le nombre de blessés est de plus de 300.000, mais il n’y a eu aucune épidémie. 29 hôpitaux et d’autres établissements de santé ont été endommagés, détruits partiellement ou totalement. Crucial besoin de tentes pour les personnes déplacées à l’approche de la saison des pluies. La situation humanitaire s’améliore quotidiennement. Une partie de l’infrastructure essentielle, comme le port, l’aéroport, les institutions gouvernementales, les réseaux électriques et de télécommunications et les routes commencent à fonctionner mieux.
Toutefois, il est aussi évident que des besoins humanitaires de base demeurent insatisfaits, en particulier dans des secteurs fondamentaux comme les abris et d’autres produits non alimentaires et sanitaires. Le PNUD et les organismes connexes soutiennent les initiatives spontanées de récupération des Communautés touchées. 19 février 2010. HAITI: Food Crisis Looms.
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