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Haiti a Year Later: Lots of 'Solutions,' Little Shelter

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- If people in L.A. all have a screenplay in their pockets, in Haiti, everyone's got a blueprint -- geodesic domes, Styrofoam cinder blocks, shipping container shacks. In the year since the earthquake, Haiti has become an architectural Eden, where no one has "plans" or "designs" -- just...

US Aid Worker Accused of Kidnapping Freed From Haitian Prison

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - An American aid worker has been released from a notoriously overcrowded Haitian prison after a judge apparently cleared him of allegations that he kidnapped an infant from a hospital where he worked as a volunteer. Paul Waggoner was receiving medical treatment Wednesday at an undisclosed location...

No Sanctuary at This Church in Haitian Storm

LEOGANE, Haiti (Nov. 8) -- The water in Haiti's seaside town of Leogane rose to the doorsteps of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. But if you're local, and homeless, you needn't have bothered coming here for help. Help is for Mormons only. Hurricane Tomas swiped the western coast of Haiti late last week,...

Does Our Aid Make a Difference in Haiti?

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Nov. 6) -- It's raining in Haiti still. It began to rain Thursday and forecasters predict the effects of Tomas, now a tropical storm, will bring rain through today, and maybe Sunday. But everywhere, there is the feeling that it's always raining on Haiti, even when the sun is shining. That Haiti is a...

Cholera: Three Key Steps to Stopping an Outbreak

(Oct. 25) -- Cholera, a virulent illness that comes on quick and can be fatal mere hours after symptoms appear, kills more than 100,000 people a year. The infection is characterized by chronic diarrhea, rapidly leading to life-threatening dehydration and electrolyte imbalances. And because nearly three-quarters of those...

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THE HUFFINGTON POST

U.S. Content to Sit on Haiti Aid

When I gratefully walked through customs a few weeks ago in Miami following my first trip to Port-au-Prince, a smiling full-of-Christmas-spirit customs officer looked at my passport, welcomed me home, and asked, "How was Haiti?""