Posts belonging to Category Haitians
Posted by Cassandra on January 25, 2010
This post includes an audio interview. See link at the end. The Haitian Development Fund serves the medical needs of residents in the Port-au-Prince neighborhood called Sarthe. For almost a decade, HDF has provided critical care to the mothers and children who visit the Sarthe Neighborhood Medical Clinic, which is “smaller than a Chicago bungalow,” [...]
Categories: Chicago, Haitians, Relief |
Tags: clinic, development, medical | 
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Posted by Cassandra on January 23, 2010
brick stone dust and bones an island in ruins, floating on sea of memory
Categories: Haiku, Haitians |
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Posted by Cassandra on January 20, 2010
A guest editorial by S. Eudora Smith Unlike any other mass tragedy of our time, the devastation from the earthquake in Haiti has been framed through the intimate lens of social media—from the video posted on blogs of children fleeing a crumbling orphanage in Port-au-Prince to tweets from the owner of a hotel describing the [...]
Categories: Communications, Haitians, News, Technology |
Tags: citizen journalism, Haiti, reporting, social media | No Comments »
Posted by Cassandra on January 18, 2010
When we learned Denver-based jazz singer Rene Marie was performing to help raise money for Haitian relief efforts, we wanted to talk with her directly. We first heard Rene perform at Green Dolphin Street in Chicago about seven years ago. She is a supremely talented vocalist, who always makes time to sing for a good [...]
Categories: Benefits 4 Haiti, Denver, Haitians, News |
Tags: Denver, doctors without borders, Haiti, music, Relief | No Comments »
Posted by Cassandra on January 17, 2010
We’re still trying to set up an interview with Illinois State Sen. Kwame Raoul, who had an aunt and several cousins missing as of late Saturday. Other relatives, he told the Chicago Tribune, are sleeping in a courtyard. Raoul’s parents emigrated from Haiti in the 1950s, and he grew up in Chicago. Raoul, 45, visited [...]
Categories: Haiti history, Haitians, News |
Tags: Donations, Haiti, Illinois, Kwame Raoul, Relief | No Comments »
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