Breaking a vicious cycle of disempowermentActionAid has been promoting women’s leadership in emergencies for many years now. Yet this question never fails to come up, from individuals within the...
A lot has been written about the richest 1% who own half of the world’s wealth, or the 80 or so people who have more capital than 3 billion of the world’s poorest. But what isn’t being talked about,...
Hurricane Matthew has destroyed homes and schools in Haiti. Conditions in evacuation shelters are very poor in some of the worst affected areas. There is no water, electricity and very little food....
When I was in Haiti some weeks back visiting the local office of ActionAid, I learned an immense amount of things. Like the fact that half of the country’s rice is imported. That 80% of all schools...
The Je nan Je (meaning Eye to Eye) campaign was born in 2011 in response to Haiti's housing crisis. With hundreds of thousands of survivors from the 2010 earthquake still living in tents and an...
After the earthquake that killed close to 300,000 people in January 2010, ActionAid Haiti saw an opportunity to make one disaster-prone community much much safer.Philippeaux is a desperately poor...
When I joined ActionAid Haiti’s team in November 2010, about 10 months after the devastating earthquake of January 12, 2010, something particular caught my attention: ActionAid Haiti was responding...
Haiti 3 years on >>The 7.0 magnitude earthquake that struck Haiti on January 12, 2010 plunged an alarmingly fragile population into disaster. Over 220,000 people died, 250,000 were wounded, and...
It’s nearly a month after Hurricane Sandy swept past Haiti, killing 54 people and displacing thousands. Whilst the world’s media has turned its attention to disasters on the other side of the...
