By Jennifer Browning During the Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting yesterday, Water.org co-founders Matt Damon and Gary White announced the organization's $2 million commitment to provide 50,000 in Haiti with safe water and sanitation over the next three years. As part of the commitment, Water.org has also...
Read MoreBy Jennifer Browning Come To Haiti! Join The Global Syndicate and The Haiti Project as they take you back to a time when tourists flocked to Haiti for a taste of paradise! The event will be in Washington D. C. on Saturday, September 26 from 1-4...
Read MoreBy Jennifer Browning Last Spring, juniors Ananth Sastry and Ashish Shah from University of Miami's Delta Epsilon Psi Fraternity boarded their flight to Port-au-Prince with four newly repaired computers. Health care agents now use those computers in participation with Project Medishare's Community Health Program. ...
Read MoreBy Jennifer Browning While this year's hurricane season has been a quiet one for Haiti, an eye is being kept on an active tropical system in the Atlantic basin. Hurricane Fred was 740 miles west of the Cape Verde Islands yesterday with maximum winds near 100 mph...
Read MoreBy Jennifer Browning Paul Farmer returned from Haiti Tuesday marking his first visit to the country in his new capacity as the United Nations' deputy special envoy. The trip was part of a follow-up trip that UN Special Envoy Bill Clinton made last month to...
Read MoreBy Jennifer Browning According to About.com Guide to Caribbean travel, Robert Curley things are looking up for Haiti in terms of travel. The United Nations has stated that the crime rate is down. In addition to the overall crime, murder rates have decreased and the rate of...
Read MoreBy Jennifer Browning The International Fund for Agricultural Development and the Food and Agriculture Organization have combined efforts in a $10.2 million effort to distribute and multiply quality seeds in Haiti in order to significantly increased food production, making cheaper food accessible and boosting farmers' incomes,...
Read MoreBy Jennifer Browning The new Ambassador of the United States in Haiti, Ambassador Kenneth H. Merten, arrived Port-au-Prince yesterday where he presented his letters of accreditation to Haitian President Rene Préval. Ambassador Merten reiterated the United State's support to Haiti. “I know that these are still difficult...
Read MoreBy Jennifer Browning Photographer Jeff Antebi traveled to Haiti this past April to photograph the Haitian Senatorial elections. In his article on The Huffington Post, Antebi explains his own initial fears and hesitations about his first visit to the country. After listing the horrifying statistics that make...
Read MoreBy Jennifer Browning The Haitian Group for the Study of Kaposi's Sarcoma and Opportunistic Infections (GHESKIO) was featured in the August 20 edition of the New England Journal of Medicine where follow-up data was released regarding the detailed outcomes of GHESKIO patients after five years of...
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