Tag Archives : Haiti

The holiday season that covers the celebrations of Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year is a time of joy, happiness and a chance to bring your loved ones closer to you. The holiday spirit is so intense with the blessings of the Lord, that it can even make the most bitter of enemies into inseparable friends. Each year, this time is the most celebrated [...]

The earthquake that devastated the capital of Haiti, killing about 300,000 people in January may have been caused by a fault different from what was previously considered the reason for the tremor. The pressure has accumulated could cause another concussion, experts said yesterday. Two articles published in the journal Nature Geoscience, while adopting [...]

Haiti’s government on Saturday confirmed the deaths of at least 196 people due to cholera outbreak in the country. More than 2,500 people are hospitalized on suspicion of infection, which causes high fever, diarrhea, vomiting and dehydration. According to Haitian President Rene Preval, the authorities are taking steps to ensure that cholera does [...]

Michael Reynolds, architect, was convened by the United Nations (UN) to spearhead a project to build houses made from tires – which he said can easily be raised up to $ 50 and in just one day. For this, the architect defends a fundraising campaign in the face of large organizations to get the minimum amount of raw material required to bring this [...]

On February 18, the United Nations had the largest fund-raising in its history, garnering $1.44 billion for emergency aid to Haiti in 2010. However, there has been a lot of criticism regarding the failure of coordination of such a humanitarian aid among the UN agencies and NGO recipients of these funds. Huge humanitarian needs remain unmet in spite [...]

Ron Corben reports in VOANews.com from Bangkok that ‘residents of the Klong Toey slum near Bangkok’s port have come to the aid of the children of Haiti. Volunteers and children from the Duang Prateep Foundation, which works with the community, on Sunday walked through narrow lanes and alleys seeking donations.’ Klong Toey is one of the poorest [...]

J.T.College students have made the old Japanese practice of keeping a goldfish in a bowl to detect earthquakes, obsolete. They have invented an ‘Earthquake Detector Robot’, which can not avert the destruction, but at least can help in saving lives. The recent havoc caused by an earthquake in Haiti drove these students to device this robot. This [...]

The Haiti earthquake has left behind nearly one million orphans and these innocent kids who have lost parents and homes have become the most vulnerable targets for predatory child traffickers. There are shocking reports of a boy being offered for sale for mere $50 and poor desperate parents giving up their children to foreigners for better future. The [...]

On January 22 hundreds of celebrities from different walks of life came together for “Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief” telethon and concert to raise funds for Haiti. The money raised will go to different international aid organizations which are actively carrying out rescue and relief operations in Haiti after it was [...]

International rescue teams have rescued some 130 survivors from under the rubbles and each one of them is a miracle survivor of the devastating earthquake which killed more than estimated 120,000 people, injured millions of others, destroyed entire city of Port-au-Prince and pushed Haiti to the brink of abyss. The most recent miracle survivor is 22 [...]