Haiti Struggles To Rebuild One Year Later
A year ago this week a powerful magnitude seven earthquake plunged Haiti into chaos. While devastation still surrounds the capital city, Haitians are starting to rebuild in the suburbs of Port-au-Prince.
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A year ago this week a powerful magnitude seven earthquake plunged Haiti into chaos. While devastation still surrounds the capital city, Haitians are starting to rebuild in the suburbs of Port-au-Prince.
This week marks one year since the devastating earthquake in Haiti. The powerful magnitude-7 jolt threw an already impoverished nation into even deeper devastation.
One of the first doctors to arrive in Haiti after last year's devastating earthquake says not enough has been done to rebuild.
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Haitian children displaced by the earthquake that ravished their country will have a brighter Christmas as they receive toys at an annual holiday party.
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The strain of cholera that is devastating parts of Haiti has been traced back to a strain found in South Asia, The Los Angeles Times is reporting.
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American Airlines has canceled all flights in and out of Port-au-Prince, Haiti due to the unsettled political atmosphere and recent violence in the last few weeks.
South Florida health officials have confirmed that a passenger suspected of suffering from cholera was sick with the potentially fatal disease when they landed at Miami International Airport last month. Although cholera can kill, it can not be easily spread from person to person in normal circumstances, they said.
A South Florida girl is making her mark on earthquake ravaged Haiti. Twelve-year-old Gianna Moline-Willsey won a contest to name a brand new school that is giving hundreds of Haitians a chance at a brighter future.
Still reeling from the effects of an earthquake in January, the passing of Hurricane Tomas over the summer and an outbreak of cholera in the fall, the people of Haiti are doing all they can to hang on.
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Haiti's presidential candidates are wrapping up their campaigns with loud, musical rallies, as Haitians in South Florida watched from afar as their homeland prepares for Sunday's election, the first since an earthquake devastated the country.
South Florida health officials are gathering more information about a passenger, who may be suffering from cholera, that landed at Miami International Airport. As they investigate, they are warning people that even if the person has the disease, there is virtually no chance of it spreading here as it has in Haiti.
Project Medishare continues to work hard to help Haiti in the aftermath of the devastating earthquake of January 2010.
More than 400 Haitian-Americans gathered at a South Florida university Sunday hoping to hear how a handful of Haiti's presidential candidates would rebuild their Caribbean homeland. But they also were skeptical that anything in Haiti would change after the Nov. 28 election, because so little has been accomplished since a catastrophic earthquake in January.
Hoping to raise funds and support, some of Haiti's presidential candidates are in Miami meeting with Haitian-American leaders.
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