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December 22, 2010 | USA Today
Haiti Camps No Safe Havens for Women
Rape, a serious problem in Haiti prior to the 2010 earthquake, has gone up threefold in Port-au-Prince, according to Refugees International.
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December 20, 2010 | Pulitzer Center
Haiti: Obstacles to Education Reform
About 65 percent of Haiti's population is under the age of 30. An entire generation is at risk if the country does not act to provide an education for its youth.
December 17, 2010 | Pulitzer Center
A Divine Mission
Thirteen years ago, Deacon Patrick Moynihan gave up his life as a commodities trader to become a Catholic missionary in Haiti. He is now the director of the Louverture Cleary School, where 350 students with no financial means receive a high school education for free.
December 17, 2010 | Pulitzer Center
A Time to Act
Alzire Rocourt knows that time is of the essence. She teaches classes to primary-school age children in tent city camps. But she cautions that Haiti will cease to be a nation if drastic measures aren't taken to reform education.
December 15, 2010 | Pulitzer Center
Carrefour
Political turmoil continues following Haiti's election, on the heels of a cholera outbreak and ongoing damage and displacement from January's earthquake.
December 14, 2010 | Essence
Fighting Back
A year after Haiti's capital was destroyed by an earthquake, violence and rape haunt the lives of vulnerable women and children living in makeshift settlements. But a handful of Haitians have mobilized to fight for protection and justice for their sisters.
December 14, 2010 | Pulitzer Center
Pastor Sainton During the Riots
In the midst of riots and cholera outbreak, Pastor Joel Sainton continues to minister to Haitians with HIV/AIDS.
December 14, 2010 | Pulitzer Center
Bebe the Mother
A woman relies on sex work to make ends meet, struggling to support herself and her children following Haiti's earthquake.
December 13, 2010 | Pulitzer Center
Ganthier
I thought, he said of the wife
who lasted six months, before
the news of this treachery of the
blood, before he lay on his back
December 13, 2010 | Pulitzer Center
Precious Are The Feet of Those
I will clap my hands,
bundle my fingers into fists,
lift them and shake them
and laugh, this belly laugh
of pure simple joy
for the precious feet
December 13, 2010 | Pulitzer Center
Job
This is a home,
this is a shelter,
these walls, shaken,
the lines of jagged
cracks, the split
at the ceiling
that lets in light
and rain
December 13, 2010 | Pulitzer Center
Boy in Blue
The words cluster behind your teeth;
close in, the smooth patina, deep brown,
of your face is alight with the effort:
you, boy, carrying the weight
of an old man