Category Archives: Earthquake response

Situation Report

Posted on 27 January, 2011 by

I received the January Sitrep (situation report) for the nutrition cluster today.  This is a monthly report put out by the national nutrition cluster, which is part of the humanitarian response here in Haiti.  The clusters are organized by the … Continue reading →

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Food Distribution Program

Posted on 11 July, 2010 by

Here’s a little taste of what the food distributions are like.  In the video we are measuring the mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC) to screen for acute malnutrition, and are preparing the corn soy blend/sugar/oil mixture for distribution. WFP food distribution, … Continue reading →

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Excellent 6th Month Coverage

Posted on 10 July, 2010 by

The Guardian has posted some great slide shows and videos of personal stories 6 months after the EQ http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2010/jul/10/haiti-six-months-on-what-happened-next

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Hitting the Reset Button

Posted on 19 June, 2010 by

This was something that we talked about among ourselves in the weeks after the earthquake and I have since not thought much about in the past couple of months as things have become more “normal” – the need to hit … Continue reading →

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NYT – Signs of a Cover-Up After Killings in a Haitian Prison

Posted on 23 May, 2010 by

Deborah Sontag of the New York Times has written some superb articles about Haiti. She and photographer Damien Winter visited us here for a couple of days before she filed the story about rural Haiti. Yesterday’s story about the prison … Continue reading →

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Haiti Wants Food Aid to Stop?

Posted on 22 April, 2010 by

This article on the CBS website takes a complex situation and just makes it look bad.  So many people have donated money and now they are going to wonder why. The problem with the article is that it just talks … Continue reading →

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Sleeping with Peace

Posted on 14 April, 2010 by

I’ve recently stopped feeling phantom aftershocks. Even when I was home in Canada and there would be vibrations from people walking heavily across wooden floors, or from furnaces starting, I would be startled for a split second until I realized … Continue reading →

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Port au Prince

Posted on 6 April, 2010 by

I have a love-hate relationship with Port au Prince. Going there now, usually for morning meetings, means getting up in the middle of the night and leaving here at 4 am.  In the past, if we had morning meetings we … Continue reading →

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Beautiful story

Posted on 1 April, 2010 by

There are some amazing people blogging from Haiti. Here’s a beautiful story from Haiti is Such a Strong Word.

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PBS: The Quake

Posted on 28 March, 2010 by

Since I’m not in Haiti at the moment, the only things I really have to post about are news articles and things I’m finding on the internet.  I’m taking advantage of having increased internet access. It’s been great to be … Continue reading →

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