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CARICOM Develops Health Project in Haiti

Port-au-Prince, Dec 16 (Prensa Latina) The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is developing a project to improve the healthcare infrastructure and raise Haitian residents'' awareness in the Brooklyn neighborhood, in the community of Cite Soleil, in this capital.

  The project, called WASH, consists of personal hygiene and food safety practices, and is part of support for Haiti's national strategy to fight the epidemic of cholera, the website caribbeannewsnow.com reported on Friday.

CARICOM Develops Health Project in Haiti

Port-au-Prince, Dec 16 (Prensa Latina) The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is developing a project to improve the healthcare infrastructure and raise Haitian residents'' awareness in the Brooklyn neighborhood, in the community of Cite Soleil, in this capital.

  The project, called WASH, consists of personal hygiene and food safety practices, and is part of support for Haiti's national strategy to fight the epidemic of cholera, the website caribbeannewsnow.com reported on Friday.

Self-sustaining nutrition enterprise in Haiti

Big pharma companies such as Abbott Laboratories, the Illinois-based company is donating the time of dozens of workers with expertise in food sciences and engineering, in addition to $6.5 million cash, to build a charitable, self-sustaining nutrition enterprise in Haiti,

Partners in Health proposes cholera vaccine plan for Haiti

(Reuters) - A U.S. NGO plans to start a ground-breaking cholera vaccination campaign in Haiti in January, it said Wednesday, as experts warned that efforts to combat the year-old deadly epidemic were faltering badly.

Muhammad Yunus 2006 Nobel Prize Winner, talks 'social business' in Haiti

Yunus said the "social business" idea is different from the "microcredit" industry that he pioneered in the 1980s, when he gave tiny loans to poor people to help them start small businesses. "There's a business world. There's a charity world," "Why can't we take those ideas and try to make money and also solve (social) problems?" 

 



 

U.S. State Department's New Haiti Travel Warnings

The Department of State has issued this Travel Warning to inform U.S. citizens traveling to or living in Haiti about the security situation in Haiti. This replaces the Travel Warning dated January 20, 201.

New Clinton Bush Haiti Fund Grant Will Strengthen Female-Run Businesses in Haiti

The Clinton Bush Haiti Fund continues to nurture economic opportunities for Haiti, today announcing a grant to a unique Haitian microfinance institution. The $850,000 grant to Fonds Haïtien d’Aide à la Femme (FHAF) will help put this institution on a path to financial recovery, and allow it to continue to provide loans to women throughout Haiti.

Cholera cases increasing in Haiti and Dominican Republic

Mobile units to fight the cholera outbreak

An emergency operation for the creation of mobile units against cholera in Haiti has recently been approved

Red Cross reopens Haiti cholera centre

The Red Cross has reopened a cholera treatment centre near Port-au-Prince to fight a resurgence of a disease that killed thousands last year, said a statement on Thursday.  According to Haitian health authorities, at least 10 people died in recent days of a new cholera spike in areas near the Haitian capital.

Micro-finance paying off in Haiti

Lucien, a computer engineer who emigrated from Haiti to Massachusetts at 16, has been involved for years with the islanders of Ile a Vache, visiting three or four times a year, helping restart one of their schools, starting a micro-credit program and creating a modest tourist resort, among several other initiatives.

"We're going to build a hospital," Studdert, Steven

Stephen Studdert, a Utah County businessman who orchestrated a 120-person "rescue and relief" mission to earthquake-ravaged Haiti, now aspires to help rebuild the country. He'll leave the business of food, water and housing to others. But the 62-year-old has ambitious plans to tackle the impoverished country's growing health crisis.

Haiti 3 Months On: World Vision Provides Aid to 1.8 Million People

Three months after the earthquake in Haiti, international relief agency World Vision has provided aid to around 1.8 million people, bringing much-needed aid to affected families throughout the capital city.

Architecture: A Plan to Spur Growth Away From Haiti's Capital

The lucid, far-reaching reconstruction guidelines that the Haitian government is scheduled to unveil on Wednesday at a donors’ conference at the United Nations should give all who care about Haiti’s future cause for hope.

John Stanton Envisions Copper-Free Haiti

Speaking at the International CTIA Wireless Show today, Trilogy Chairman John Stanton described the role of wireless technology in recovery efforts in Haiti and unveiled his vision for transforming Haiti – the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere – into the world’s first truly wireless nation.

Haiti's $14billion Dollar Vision of a Caribbean paradise

Haiti’s President went to the White House yesterday with a vision of a Caribbean paradise waiting to be rebuilt after January’s catastrophic earthquake — and a price tag that could rise to $14 billion (£9 billion).