Many responding to Haiti’s most recent disaster are seeing a new level of coordination among outside aid groups, demonstrating how much was learned from the catastrophic 2010 earthquake and the […]
Category: Haiti
Delta Donates $100K for Haiti Relief, Deploys Three Planes to Transport Afghan Evacuees
Delta Air Lines Inc. is helping ameliorate two acute humanitarian crises on different sides of the world that have transfixed Americans in recent weeks. On Monday, just over a week […]
Georgia Nonprofits Respond as Haiti Reels From Dual Disasters
Georgia-based nonprofits find themselves in a tragically familiar position this week, sending emergency relief to Haiti as the country reels from a string of new natural disasters. Nearly 2,000 people […]
Reeling From President’s Assassination, Haitian Consulate Hosts Local Remembrances
Reeling from the shock of its president’s assassination, the Consulate General of Haiti has spent the last week providing space for remembrance, engaging with both its diaspora and the international community in […]
Hartsfield-Jackson Features Haitian Art That Draws Diplomats from D.C. and NYC
For Gandy Thomas, returning to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport on Jan. 30 was a kind of homecoming. “I have been dreaming of this ever since I first arrived in Atlanta,” […]
Opinion: There Are No ‘S***hole Countries’ — What Haiti Taught Me
Summit the hill leading to the Hotel Montana, and it’s easy to see the devastation wrought by Haiti’s 2010 earthquake — or at least it was in 2012, when I […]
Books 2017: A Journey Into Haiti’s Cultural Heart
Book: The Serpent and the Rainbow: A Harvard Scientist’s Astonishing Journey into the Secret Societies of Haitian Voodoo, Zombis, and Magic Author: Wade Davis, 1985 Review by: Trevor Williams, managing […]
Haiti’s Charms and Challenges Keep Former Habitat Exec Mrs. Blake Motivated
Haiti never seems to be far from Elizabeth Blake’s mind. Or so it seemed when she spoke at the Kiwanis Club of Atlanta downtown on Feb. 21 or even when […]
Haitian-American Reconnects With Her Roots Through Soccer
Though she has still never visited her ancestral country, soccer is giving Georgia State University freshman Taina Anglade a chance to reconnect with her Haitian roots. The 18-year-old in January joined the Haitian women’s national soccer […]
Atlanta Group Crowdfunding Homes for Haiti
A new Atlanta-based nonprofit is using crowdfunding to build homes for Haitian families, hoping to use its model to scale up to other countries and causes. New Story provides an […]