Storm
From here the mountains around
Port-au-Prince are green; too
far to see the denuded hillside,
too far to see the brown wounds
From here the mountains around
Port-au-Prince are green; too
far to see the denuded hillside,
too far to see the brown wounds
When you leave from here, head down
Canape Vert to your cooling hotel room,
to the breadfruit casserole and barbecue
chicken, to the closed in peace of your
life
The faces of mothers of mothers,
their cheekbones gleaming against
taut skins; their eyes glazed
with the scarring of so much loss.
Every crumbled building is a tomb.
We step over grey crushed bricks
and the entanglement of steel.
At the origin of the cholera epidemic now spreading across the country, Dr. Wesler Lambert of Partners in Health explains how and why the disease has found fertile ground in Haiti.
As many as 120,000 people live with HIV in Haiti. Many have been displaced since the earthquake that devastated the country, in conditions that experts warn may lead to a health disaster.
William Wheeler discusses the cholera outbreak in earthquake-ravaged Haiti, which has left more than 1,200 people dead.
Photographing and telling the stories of HIV positive Haitians after the earthquake requires sensitivity, earning the trust of the subject and allowing their common humanity to show through.
"Haiti's Lost Generation" explores education in Haiti - a critical issue that has been overshadowed by the grave humanitarian crises which followed the January, 2010 earthquake.
Haiti's post-earthquake tent cities house many willing students but lack accessible education.
School infrastructure in Haiti is largely absent, but the children are determined to learn anyway.
In the wake of the earthquake, a reevaluation of accessibility to education in Haiti and the role foreign aid should play in reconstructing the system.