This is a song about the hardworking Haitian farmer. The song helps one to realize that those locked in poverty in Haiti remain poor despite their strong work ethic. The song begins by repeating the term “working” “Travay, m ap travay o”....
The United Nations accidentally introduced cholera into Haiti in October 2010. Since then, more than 7,000 people have died from the disease. The UN owes Haiti reparations. It has yet to fulfill this responsibitity. Ask your Rep. to sign a letter being circulated by the Office of Representative John Coyers. The letter to UN Ambassador, Susan Rice, urges UN authorities to play a central role in addressing the cholera crisis. http://ijdh.org/archives/26647
Cholera in Haiti (Rehydration Fluid Recipe)An estimated 2,000 people in the Artibonite region have been struck by a killer diarrhea epidemic caused by Cholera Vibrio. Like the other islands in the Caribbean, during the past 100 years, Haiti has been sheltered from this disease....
Letter to the CDC Piarroux et al provide additional new evidence for the UN camp in Meille, Haiti as the source of that country’s cholera epidemic1....
Free Education Monday, October 3rd, 2011 was the first day of school in Haiti and the official launch of a plan to give all of Haiti's children access to a free education (up to the 6th grade by 2015 and up to the 9th grade by 2020)....
Family Planning May 9th 2010 marked the 50th anniversary of the birth control pill, an event that Haiti helped to launch by being one of the two principal places where the pill was studied before its release in the U.S. in 19601. Yet, Haiti has benefited little from this major tool in family planning....
The Measure of our WealthHaiti is often applauded for having been the richest colony in the Americas. Today, the country is frequently derided as the poorest nation in the hemisphere. Haiti as the region's poorest nation is based on the country's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) even though GDP is not a measure of wealth....
A Sovereign Fund for HaitiThe Haitian Diaspora sends approximately 2 billion dollars in remittances home to Haiti each year....
Haitian StockMany of the most successful companies operating in Haiti are not publicly traded. Digicel, CAM, Barbancourt, are among the most well known companies that are privately owned. The following group of companies are publicly traded....[Companies investing in Haitian Gold include: Newmont Mining Corp (NEM), Eurasian Minerals (EMX.V), and Majescor Resources (MJX.V)]
Corruption in the Haitian government has a long history. In 1922, Kelsey, a social scientist, described how Haitian officials used government contracts to build their own home
Today, only 1% of Haiti's original tree cover remains. The need for environmental education and action to reforest the country is of the highest priority.
