From Wyclef’s Yele-Haiti.org PORT-AU-PRINCE, July 12, 2010 – Wyclef announced the creation of Yéle Corps, a new program that will provide jobs to nearly 1,000 people a day cleaning the streets and removing garbage. The program also includes a vocational training component. Nearly 1,000 people attended a Yéle Corps rally at the Place St. Pierre tent camp where Wyclef addressed […]
Students and community members in the Indiana Memorial Union Sunday cheered as Indianapolis Colts wide receiver Pierre Garcon took the stage. Some brought jerseys and T-shirts for him to sign. Garcon was there to speak about his work to support Haiti relief efforts. He is of Haitian descent and was invited to the White House […]
Join Eastern Star & 29 Churches To Pray for Haiti at the Main Campus of Eastern Star Church 5750 E. 30th Street between Emerson and Arlington Streets Sunday at 5pm
A reported 40,127 Haitians have made professions of faith in Jesus Christ since the Jan. 12 earthquake hit the impoverished nation, according to pastors and the director of missions of the Confraternite Missionaire Baptiste d’Haiti (CMBH). “Haiti is ripe for a spiritual movement from God,” said Craig Culbreth, director of the Florida Baptist Convention Partnership […]
Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) — A Haitian judge Wednesday freed eight of 10 Americans detained in Haiti and said they can leave the country immediately, a lawyer involved in the case told CNN. Although the Americans are released, there was no bond required. They are being released on their word. The eight Americans are part of […]
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according to CNN.com I know from hideous memory that you smell a mass grave long before you see it, so the stench of death filling our car tells me we’re getting close. Up on the hillside, I see the machines of this macabre industry: a bulldozer, a backhoe and a dump truck. As we drive […]
Mia Pean’s heart sank last week when she saw the Toyota pickup truck cruising the debris-cluttered streets of Léogâne, ground zero for the earthquake that has devastated Haiti. Each time the driver saw a child — especially a young teen — he would stick his head out of the window and shout, “Manje, manje,” Creole […]
Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) — A sweet sadness blankets Hector Mendez’s face, appropriate, perhaps, for a middle-aged man who has seen suffering and miracles at once. Many rescuers have left the Haitian capital, no hope left in their hearts 16 long days after the massive earthquake that ravaged this country and entombed so many in the […]
Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) — On Wednesday, Dr. Toni Eyssallenne was walking the aisle of a small makeshift hospital in Haiti run by the University of Miami when a patient beckoned to her. “I assumed she was in pain, so I walked over and asked her what was wrong,” Eyssallenne told me. “But she said she […]
As gospel music artists gathered in Nashville, Tennessee to celebrate the biggest and brightest at the 25th Stellar Awards last weekend, they also came together for a higher purpose. With the recent tragic earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Kirk Franklin assembled numerous gospel artists in Nashville’s Quad Studios to lend their voices to “Are You Listening,” […]
