Just a quick note before I go in to work. Thanks to a link on CNN’s iREport website, I have finally heard news of my cousin and her daughter. They have been found alive and well.
We got lucky, too many families have been broken up or have perished entirely. Please continue your [...]
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January 14th, 2010 | Tags: Haiti, Haiti earthquake | Category: Miscellaneous | Leave a comment
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Just a few thoughts, as I watch CNN’s Anderson Cooper report. January 14th, 2010 | Tags: Earthquake, Family, Haiti, Natural Disaster | Category: Personal, world events | Leave a comment
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My heart is truly in pain, looking at these pictures. Please donate $10 to the Red Cross by texting the word ‘Haiti’ to 90999, or $5 to Wyclef Jean’s “Yélé Ha&itrema;ti Earthquake Fund” by texting YELE to 501501. Click the Yélé image to visit Wyclef’s site. Obviously, this is only a preliminary Gallery. I will add [...] January 14th, 2010 | Tags: Earthquake, Family, Haiti, Natural Disaster | Category: world events | Leave a comment
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I had not thought I’d be essentially reopening The Brown Study with such a dire story, but it so happens that this one touches me pretty directly: although Haiti is not my nation, it is the land of my ancestors, and I have family there, including a cousin, Marie Jo Bredy, and “Granny” Serette, who [...] January 12th, 2010 | Tags: Earthquake, Haiti, Haiti National Palace, Natural Disaster | Category: Personal, world events | Leave a comment
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As reported by the oldest worldwide news agency in the world, the Associated Press, another school has collapsed in the land of my ancestors, Haiti. That’s two in less than a week, for a combined death toll of nearly 100 and some 150 injured. The country, where Mother Nature’s wrath, in the form of four [...] November 12th, 2008 | Tags: Haiti, Haitian government, life and death | Category: Social Commentary, world events | Leave a comment
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Haiti Quake: Day 10 – Miracles, Hope, and Despair
It is now day 10 since the Enriquillo Fault line twitched, sending buildings crashing on top of nearly 3 million people, chasing those not caught in the debris into the streets. Despite all the odds, people keep emerging from the rubble that was downtown Port-au-Prince, hungry, dehydrated, but alive.
In the past week alone, I [...]