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...
Five years after the earthquake, a new report from international aid agency ActionAid reveals how a US-backed industrial park, paid for with disaster relief funding, has evicted food-producing...
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...
In Haiti, grassroots communities, international partners, and the government are sounding the alarm of an impending food crisis, with potentially disastrous consequences for nearly 2 million Haitians...
Nessilo Dorestant is 49 years old and is from La Source, Roseux. Like many Haitian farmers, his crops were mostly destroyed by Hurricane Sandy in October 2012. He explains the need to shore up Haiti'...
