Posted in Uncategorized on October 2, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Barack Obama
for President of the USA!
Support Rally
Wednesday, Oct 1st, 6-9 pm
Café Terrasse
Rue Grégoire, Pétionville
Entertainment, Cash Bar, Speeches, T-shirts,
Obama-Mania !
As a reminder, registration and absentee ballot deadlines are approaching. If you are an American citizen living in Haiti and need to register/request and absentee ballot, go to www.fvap.gov. If you have friends or family living in [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
By Stephanie Busari For CNN
LONDON, England (CNN) – Humanitarian aid workers and United Nation peacekeepers are sexually abusing small children in war-ravaged countries, a leading European charity has said.
Children like this 15-year-old girl have suffered abuse at the hands of some UN soldiers and aid workers.
Children as young as 6 have been forced to have [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on March 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
By THOMAS BENDER
Published: July 1, 2001
AMERICANS celebrate the Fourth of July Americana-style, much like the way the nation thinks about the revolution it commemorates. The rituals of family picnics, parades, fairs, fireworks, stories of midnight rides and tea parties reinforce a sense of the Revolution’s Americanness: singular, exceptional, unrelated to any history beyond the territory [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on February 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We can make it happen! Joanne Borgella is the first Haitian-American that is competing for the title of American Idol! We should support her as much as possible!
Posted in Haiti, Health, Uncategorized on November 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
By Edwidge Danticat, November 7, 2007
A new study on the early path of the AIDS epidemic threatens to stigmatize Haitians and Haitian-Americans once again.
Late last month, a group of researchers published a study that concluded that the explosion of the AIDS pandemic in the United States resulted from the virus first being brought from the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on October 28, 2007 | 1 Comment »
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Glassy-eyed and so thin his bones protrude through his skin, a newborn infant named only Rony stares up at a dirty ceiling hour after hour, frozen in his crib because of a softball-sized tumor on the back of his neck.
Susie Scott Krabacher holds an abandoned baby at the General Hospital in [...]
