Join UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Grammy Award-winning band Linkin Park, the United Nations Foundation, Music for Relief’s Download to Donate, and our very special guests for “Haiti Today, Haiti Tomorrow” - a Facebook Town Hall.
Fans already know this, but Arcade Fire are long time advocates for Haiti. One song on their Grammy award winning album is even titled Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains), which refers to this book about Paul Farmer's quest to transform global health policy through the work of his NGO Partners in Health in Haiti.
The UN is out with a new report showing that natural disasters cost about $109 billion in economic damage in 2010. That's compared to about $35 billion in 2009.
Jean Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier's surprise return to Haiti is a side show. The real story this week is the tightening of screws on the Haitian government for refusing to certify the proper results of November's presidential elections.
UN Foundation CEO Kathy Calvin has an op-ed in the Philadelphia Inquirer about how some small interventions in Haiti can go a long way toward improving the health and welfare of women living in Haiti's sprawling tent cities.
I think that things will get better this year. Disaster recovery is slow. The volume of money donated to Haiti had everyone thinking that reconstruction would be quick. However, the obstacles to Haiti recovery were larger than a lack of money
January 12 marks the one year anniversary of the devastating earthquake in Haiti. Over the next few days we will be running a series of posts taking a look at progress over the past year and what still needs to be done to help get Haiti back on its feet.
January 12 marks the one year anniversary of the devastating earthquake in Haiti. Over the next few days we will be running a series of posts taking a look at progress over the past year and what still needs to be done to help get Haiti back on its feet.
