By Jennifer Browning Although the cruise line mostly bills the stop as Hispanola, Miami's Royal Caribbean Cruises has been making Labadee, Haiti a frequent port of call. Now the cruise line is making a an investment, nearly $55 million, to fuel hope that Haiti can become a...
Read MoreBy Jennifer Browning University of Texas Health and Science Center in San Antonio, one of our partnering universities, entered Healthcare for Haiti as an idea to support on Ideablob.com in order to help them raise money for their medical trip in January, and to help funding...
Read MoreBy Jennifer Browning A water cistern in Marmont is still in need of repair. Project Medishare is dedicated to helping the people of Marmont have safe drinking water, but funding is still needed to complete the repairs. Clean water plays an important role in not only preventing...
Read MoreBy Jennifer Browning Under the enhanced Heavily-Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative, United States Ambassador Kenneth H. Merten and Haitian Minister of the Economy and Finance Daniel Dorsainvil today signed a bilateral debt relief agreement. In recognition of Haiti's successful completion of the HIPC, under the terms of...
Read MoreBy 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...
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