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- Grameen Foundation in Haiti
- http://www.grameenfoundation.org/americas/haiti
- "Although there are many challenges facing Haiti, microfinance promises hope, as the industry increased its outreach in Haiti by 40 percent between 2005 and 2007. Grameen Foundation has been supporting microfinance activities in Haiti since 2003..."
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- "Temporary Shelters in Tent Cities - Photo Essay by Julie Dermansky" (Haiti Rewired)
- http://haitirewired.ning.com/profiles/blogs/temporary-shelters-in-tent
- "Torrential rains have begun in Haiti before the official start of the rainy season. Approximately 600,000 are living in makeshift tents in Port-au-Prince. They have gotten a taste of what is to come. While people in Hawaii and Japan dodged a bullet with a tsunami warning, people in Haiti contended with a heavy downpour..."
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- "Haiti Hospital’s Fight Against TB Falls to One Man" (New York Times)
- http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/06/world/americas/06tuberculosis.html
- "PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — At a fly-infested clinic hastily erected alongside the rubble of the only tuberculosis sanatorium in this country, Pierre-Louis Monfort is a lonely man in a crowded room.
Haiti has the highest tuberculosis rate in the Americas, and health experts say it is about to drastically increase..."
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- Google: "Haiti Imagery Layer Now Available" (blog)
- http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2010/01/haiti-imagery-layer-now-available.html
- 1/13/10: "We've worked closely with GeoEye throughout the afternoon to make their most recent satellite imagery of Haiti, taken at approximately 10:27am EST today, available as a KML overlay for Google Earth. You can download the KML here and open it in Google Earth, or look at it via the browser plug-in below. As you'll see, the imagery shows a powerful glimpse into the destruction in Haiti. Here are before-and-after screenshots of the Presidential Palace and an area of Port-au-Prince..."
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- Ushahidi: Haiti
- http://haiti.ushahidi.com/
- This Crisis Map of Haiti represents the most comprehensive and up-to-date crisis map available to the humanitarian community. The information here is mapped in near real time and gathered from reports coming from inside Haiti via:
* SMS
* Web
* Email
* Radio
* Phone
* Twitter
* Facebook
* Television
* List-serves
* Live streams
* Situation Reports
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- Lambi Fund
- http://www.lambifund.org/
- "Founded jointly in 1994 by Haitians and Americans, the Lambi Fund of Haiti is a unique grassroots organization whose mission is to assist the popular, democratic movement in Haiti. Its goal is to help strengthen civil society in Haiti as a necessary foundation for democracy and development..."
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- U.S. Senate Bill 1183: Haiti Reforestation Act of 2009
- http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s111-1183&tab=summary
- "6/4/2009--Introduced.
Haiti Reforestation Act of 2009 - Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to offer to enter into agreements with the government of Haiti to provide financial assistance, technology transfers, or capacity building assistance to reduce deforestation and increase reforestation in Haiti. Authorizes appropriations..."
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- "Animal Relief Coalition for Haiti Grows" (Discovery News)
- http://news.discovery.com/animals/animal-relief-coalition-for-haiti-grows.html
- "In the past few days, several organizations have joined forces to create the Animal Relief Coalition for Haiti (ARCH), with the goal of raising funds to help animals in the earthquake-stricken country and to provide direct aid to animals once rescue teams can be assembled in Haiti.
The ASPCA is the latest to join..."
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- Barack Obama: "Why Haiti Matters" (Newsweek)
- http://www.newsweek.com/id/231131
- 1/15/10: "In the last week, we have been deeply moved by the heartbreaking images of the devastation in Haiti: parents searching through rubble for sons and daughters; children, frightened and alone, looking for their mothers and fathers. At this moment, entire parts of Port-au-Prince are in ruins, as families seek shelter in makeshift camps. It is a horrific scene of shattered lives in a poor nation that has already suffered so much..."
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- " Big Crisis, Small Help" (Fonkoze in Haiti - Newsweek) )
- http://www.newsweek.com/id/233334
- "A microlender was able to distribute cash in Haiti much more quickly than traditional banks. How microcredit can play a larger role in disaster recovery..."
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- Fonkoze
- http://www.fonkoze.org/
- "Fonkoze is Haiti’s Alternative Bank for the Organized Poor. We are the largest micro-finance institution offering a full range of financial services to the rural-based poor in Haiti. Fonkoze is committed to the economic and social improvement of the people and communities of Haiti and to the reduction of poverty in the country...."
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- Bill Clinton: "Business Can Help Haiti" (BusinessWeek)
- http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_07/b4166084349692.htm?chan=magazine+channel_business
- "Today, perhaps counterintuitively, opportunities in Haiti abound. Amid the destruction, the Haitian leadership rightfully views this as an opportunity to reimagine their country and "build back better" in ways that create jobs, improve education and health care, and enhance environmental sustainability. Nearly every sector of the economy needs investment and offers opportunity, but I'd like to highlight a few specific sectors of particular importance...."
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- "Agroforestry and sustainable resource conservation in Haiti: A Case Study" (Partners in Progress)
- http://www.piphaiti.org/overview_of_haiti2.html
- "Soil erosion and deforestation are endemic in Haiti due to centuries of agricultural exploitation, first under the colonial plantation system—intensive monocropping of export commodities such as cotton, indigo, tobacco, sugarcane, and coffee—and later by the widespread harvest of timber for export markets and the expansion of peasant subsistence agriculture on marginal sloping land....
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- Solar Cell Phones: "Haiti Gets 1,000 Solar Mobile Phones" (eWeek)
- http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/news/haiti-gets-1-000-solar-mobile-phones-3061
- "Solar-powered phones are being sent to Haiti to help earthquake surivivors and aid workers communicate in a country where power and other amenities are disrupted.
One thousand phones will be sent to Haiti by Intivation – the company which makes the solar charger built into the phone, and Digicel – a mobile operator which serves Haiti, along with the Dutch postcode lottery. The solar-powered phones, launched in June 2009, are designed to operate in areas where electric power is unreliable but mobile signals can be provided..."
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- ESRI: Mapping Sources/ Tools for Haiti Quake
- http://www.esri.com/haiti/index.html
- ESRI is able to assist your agency, organization, or business in response and recovery to the earthquake in Haiti.
We can help your GIS operations with software, data, imagery, project services, and technical support.
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- "Rebuilding Haiti: On Trees, Charcoal, Compost and Why Low Tech, Low Cost Answers Could Make the Big
- http://trackerblog.trackernews.net/2010/02/10/treesandcharcoal/
- by J.A. Ginsburg: Rebuilding Haiti from the soil microbes up; Schweitzer hospital's Haiti Timber Re-Introduction Project (HTRIP), Amy Smith and the MIT D-Lab's on how to make charcoal from ag waste; Kristof takes a tours SOIL's compost toilets
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- "Microfinance Project Could Be New Kiva For Haiti’s Diaspora" (Haiti Rewired)
- http://haitirewired.wired.com/profiles/blogs/microfinance-project-could-be
- "...Now, a new project, Zafen.org, proposes to connect diaspora groups directly to projects on the ground in Haiti in need of support. Modeled in part on the online lending platform, KIVA, Zafen is as a joint project of Fonkoze, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and a Catholic order commemorating St. Vincent De Paul. It launches in April..."
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- Haiti Timber Re-Introduction Project - HTRIP
- http://reforesthaitinow.org/haititrees.html
- Started in 2005 by the Hopital Albert Schweitzer in Haiti to address link between deforestation and health issues; Long term community involvement; On track to plant 1 million trees by 2016
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- "Don't Forget the Animals! (HaitiRewired)
- http://haitirewired.wired.com/profiles/blogs/dont-forget-the-animals
- "Could some of the tech tools developed to address the human crisis in Haiti could be adapted for the animal crisis?
The animal health component often gets lost in the haze of a crisis, but it can pretty significant on lots of levels. An estimated 2/3 of human diseases are zoonotic, which means they affect other animal species as well. For example, in Haiti, rabies is a real potential threat - only 20% the country's 500,000 dogs are vaccinated..."
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- Haiti Rewired Collaborative Network (sponsored by Wired magazine)
- http://haitirewired.wired.com/
- "...the disaster may prove to be a unique chance for an architectural and communications reboot of an entire country.
That's why we've created this community, Haiti Rewired. We believe that better answers to the difficult questions could be created through the collaboration of technologists, researchers, geographers, infrastructure specialists, aid groups and others. Our writers and editors can aggregate information, report new stories and add to the discussion, but the focus of this effort is squarely on the thoughts, plans and actions of our contributors..."
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- 2/18/10: Haiti Rewired Weekly Article Round Up
- http://haitirewired.wired.com/profiles/blogs/links-from-around-the-web-2
- Stories one: One month memorial services, status; Damage estimates, Relief issues - shortages & shantytowns; Sarkozy's visit - France's shameful Haitian history; Long term support issues - almost complete lack of much-needed support for Ag sector
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- "The artists of Haiti's Grand Rue, after the earthquake" (video - in Kreyol with subtitles)
- http://dotsub.com/view/c1cf8385-7b79-414b-b621-510681873f5a
- "Grand Rue in Port-au-Prince Haiti is one of the city's most disadvantaged neighbourhoods, but also home to a vibrant community of artists who create stunning objects out of the discarded materials they find in their environment. The area was host to the first Ghetto Biennale in December 2009. This video highlights the impact of the January 12 earthquake on the artists' surroundings and their way of life. ..."
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- "World Food Program On Haiti Efforts" (NPR - audio / Print)
- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122867528
- "The World Food Program, the lead agency supplying food in earthquake-ravaged Haiti, says it has delivered more than 3 million meals, but some have criticized how long the U.N. agency it took to distribute the food. WFP Executive Director Josette Sheeran offers her insight."; Why helicopter food drops don't work in cities with fragile buildings; Demolished infrastructure; 90% of WPF staff in Haiti homeless; Planning meetings under a tree; Logistical nightmare
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- Yele
- http://yele.org/
- "Yéle Haiti is a foundation started by Grammy-Award winning musician, producer and social entrepreneur Wyclef Jean that is changing lives in this desperately poor but optimistic nation.
Through Yéle Haiti, Wyclef uses music, sports and the media to reinforce projects that are making a difference in education, health, environment and community development. In practical terms this translates to over 3,000 new jobs, close to 7,000 children being put in school, more than 8,000 people a month receiving food and approximately 2,000 young people a month learning about HIV/AIDS prevention."
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- Hopital Albert Schweitzer - Haiti
- http://www.hashaiti.org/
- "Hôpital Albert Schweitzer (HAS) is a model for health care facilities in developing countries around the world. An integrated rural health system, HAS provides medical care and community health and development programs for more than 300,000 impoverished people in the Artibonite Valley of central Haiti."
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- Crowdsourced Translation: "How to Give Work to Haiti, Not Just Aid" (Haiti Rewired blog)
- http://haitirewired.wired.com/profiles/blogs/how-to-give-work-to-haiti-not
- By Samsource's Leila C. Janah; Crowdsourcing emergency text message translations through microwork services; Samasource, FrontlineSMS, Crowdflower working with Ushahidi; Link to Samasource volunteer sign up page
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- Architecture for Humanity's Kate Stohr Interview (BBN - video)
- http://watch.bnn.ca/#clip258406
- "The future of Haiti has never seemed so bleak. Large-scale reconstruction is not yet a priority, but the country will be rebuilt. BNN investigates how other nations have recovered from this catastrophe and what's involved. BNN speaks to Kate Stohr, managing director and co-founder, Architecture for Humanity."
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