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28 min ago | Maple Ridge News

Still much work to be done in Haiti

News reports about the devastating earthquake in Haiti have slowed to a trickle in North America but the destruction left in the disaster's wake is something Haitians still deal with every day.

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Related Topix: Central America, World News, Natural Disasters, Earthquake

4 hrs ago | Christian Science Monitor

Wyclef Jean mulling Haiti presidential run against politician uncle

Wyclef Jean released a statement Friday saying he will make a public announcement next week on whether he will run for president of Haiti.

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5 hrs ago | IRIN

In Haiti, testing a new and improved "flying toilet"

But in Haiti, aid teams are testing a specially treated bag designed to turn human faeces into compost within weeks.

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7 hrs ago | The Globe and Mail

Arcade Fire rocks its roots

Even as they share stages with Springsteen, Bowie and U2, the Montreal rockers have always stayed true to their indie origins.

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11 hrs ago | AlertNet

Project Hope Ceo in Haiti

Previous Next Dr. John P. Howe III, Project HOPE President and CEO, left, and Patricia Bacuros, Project HOPE GIK Director, right, chat with Theodore Clermelie and her 10-month-old son Joseph Salomon as a delegation put together by Project HOPE visits Clinique St.

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15 hrs ago | Florida Baptist Witness

Tampa church ministers to their - heart' family in Haiti

The first predominantly African-American congregation from Florida to minister in Haiti since the Jan.

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19 hrs ago | New Jersey Herald

Pa. church group spreads joy in Haiti

Submitted Photo Father Gerald Mullally of St. Patrick's Church in Milford, Pa., sits with children from the church's "sister-parish" in Haiti.

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Thu Jul 29, 2010

NewsBlaze

More Haitian Children to Be Vaccinated in UN-Backed Campaign

The United Nations and its partners are aiming to reach an additional 500,000 Haitian children during a second round of emergency immunizations in the Caribbean nation that was struck by a devastating earthquake just over six months ago.

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www.granma.cu | forhaiti

granma.cu - Cuba has not forgotten Haiti

SIX months have passed, but it seems like yesterday when, on that January 12, the faces of this agitated, forgetful world turned toward Haiti, the poorest nation of the American continent.

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www.reuters.com | forhaiti

Wyclef Jean steps toward Haitian presidential race

Grammy-award winning singer Wyclef Jean said on Thursday that he has taken legal steps toward running for president in quake-devastated Haiti, but has not made a definite decision to run.

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Related Topix: World News, Central America, Wyclef Jean, Black Entertainment, Hip-Hop, Earthquake, Natural Disasters, US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election

Irish Examiner

Housing charity for Haiti beats targets

AN Irish charity building houses in Haiti has said it has exceeded its targets in the impoverished country despite the destruction wrought by the hurricane last winter.

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Related Topix: Travel, Haiti Travel, Central America, World News

www.cnbc.com | forhaiti

Treasury to advise Haiti on tax collection

Treasury Under Secretary Lael Brainard met top Haitian leaders on Thursday to discuss the upcoming deployment of a technical assistance team to tighten financial management in Haiti.

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www.huffingtonpost.com | forhaiti

Sarah Ryley: Haitian Hospitals Awash With Supplies, Struggle to Pay Staff (Part 2)

Down a craggy pathway, past the open-air pews that line the emergency wing, to the right of a bright red shipping container packed with tents and toiletries that in five months has yet to be cracked open, is the Hopital Adventiste d'Haiti's "excess supply outpost."

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Rome News - Tribune

Insecurity rises in makeshift camps for Haiti quake victims

PRINCE, Haiti a ' If it weren't hard enough looking after 2,000 earthquake victims crammed into a sweltering schoolyard, Jean Robert Charles now has to worry about rapists.

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Time

Is Wyclef Jean About to Run for President of Haiti?

On the streets of Port-au-Prince, there's no missing Wyclef Jean. The hip-hop superstar's face is plastered on large billboards for the cellphone company Voila; and local stations constantly play the recent remake of "We are the World," which featured Jean as the literal voice of his island nation as he sings in Haitian Creole.

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The Catholic Sun Phoenix

Patience of Haitians six months after earthquake impresses US bishops

WASHINGTON -- With cleanup following the Jan. 12 earthquake moving at a snail's pace and life in makeshift shelters the new normal, Haitians are facing their predicament with a spirit of patience that has impressed two American bishops.

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Huntersville Herald

Haitian minister calls on locals for continued help

CORNELIUS There were two reasons to be at Bethel Presbyterian Church Monday, July 26: Pastor Leon Dorleans, a director of Haiti Outreach Ministries, spoke about the history of the organization and their work since the earthquake earlier this year.

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www.google.com | forhaiti

Parents mourn 2 boys killed by storm in Haiti camp

Distraught parents mourned the loss of two children in a camp for Haitian earthquake survivors Wednesday, a day after rains caused a wall to collapse on top of a row of tarp homes.

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www.nytimes.com | forhaiti

Op-Ed Contributor - In Haiti, a Lesson for U.S. Health Care

IN February, a month after Haiti's earthquake, I went down to Port-au-Prince as part of a team that was helping to reactivate cardiac care in the city's public hospital.

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www.msnbc.msn.com | forhaiti

22 killed in Haiti bus crashes

Haitian police and radio say at least 22 people have been killed in two bus accidents near the capital this week.

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