Haiti and the aftermath of the January 2010 earthquake
Read Haiti: Earthquake's aftermath in the March-April 2010 issue of NewsNotes.
Several Maryknoll Affiliates have deep ties with Haiti. Renate Schneider, a Maryknoll Affiliate, is coordinator of Haitian Connection.
Renate shared this YouTube link with us, a song for Haiti by gospel performer Kirk Franklin and others: Are you listening?
Other organizations have had years of experience in Haiti and are doing tremendous work to serve the people there: Catholic Relief Services, Fonkoze, and Partners in Health, to name a few.
News, analysis and messages from Haiti:
Where's Haiti's bailout? The Huffington Post, July 12
Six months after earthquake, Haiti struggles to rebuild, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, July 8
Washington aid may be shifting, published on IRIN, April 19
What Haiti needs right now, editorial in New York Times, April 16
Perspective on Haiti, written by Brian Price, published on Yale Daily News, April 7
What Bill Clinton's mea culpa should mean, written by Ruth Messinger, published on HuffingtonPost.com, March 29
Blog postings on Haiti by Mark Schuller, HuffingtonPost.com
Post-disaster reconstruction: Putting Haitian citizens into the equation, posted March 15 on CommonDreams
Haiti Debt Relief and Earthquake Recovery Act of 2010 passed in U.S. House of Representatives on March 10
Experts urge change in “culture of aid” to Haiti, posted March 8
How to help Haiti, published in The Nation, March 5
House subcommittee approves measure to cancel Haiti’s debt, March 5
Filmmaker Raoul Peck: I want to give the world a different view of Haiti, posted on CNN.com March 4
A future for agriculture, a future for Haiti, posted March 2 on CommonDreams
Post-disaster needs assessment, posted Feb. 26 on CommonDreams
Collapsed house, no number, link to Haiti Rewired, Feb. 23
Raising up another Haiti, link to Haiti Rewired, Feb. 23
Food crisis looms in rural Haiti, link to FAO story, Feb. 19
Passing the riot test in Haiti, article by Mark Schuller on Huffington Post, Feb. 18
Haiti Relief and Reconstruction Watch, an excellent resource from the Center for Economic and Policy Research
Toward a new Haitian state: The disastrous earthquake provides an opportunity to create a more democratic Haiti with a strong government, by Robert Fatton, Jr.
Video: Al Jazeera report on Haiti on one-month anniversary of earthquake (link to YouTube)
Haiti expert shares a vision at Harvard: Paul Farmer says quake opened road to transformation (link to Boston Globe article)
Feb. 12: Day of prayer for Haiti
On the path to debt cancellation for Haiti (link to Jubilee USA)
Victory in Iqaluit -- debt relief for Haiti
Haiti: The earthquake can be a sign of peace for the world, a statement from Daniel Tillias, Pax Christi Port au Prince
Uncertain ground: Haiti's earthquake and its aftermath, article by
Mark Schuller, Feb. 8
U.S. must be Haiti's watchdog, Guardian UK article by Mark Weisbrot, CEPR, Feb. 8
Statement from AJWS at Senate Foreign Relations hearing, Feb. 4
Haiti: After the catastrophe, what are the perspectives? January 27 statement by progressive Haitian organizations
Haiti: The rest of the story is ours, Joan Chittister's column in National Catholic Reporter, January 25 (link to NCR website)
Why the U.S. owes Haiti billions, by Bill Quigley
Haiti by the numbers, by Bill Quigley
Earthquake frees Haitian prisoners from Port-au-Prince jail, 80 percent never charged with a crime, Democracy Now! radio interview, January 21
Letter from Camille Chambers, Haitian Platform to Advocate Alternative Development (PAPDA), January 15
Click here for prayer resources from Catholic Relief Services.
Writer and poet Rose Marie Berger composed the following prayer, available also at her blog:
A prayer for Haiti (January 2010)
Most Holy Creator God, Lord of heaven and earth,
we bring before you today your people of Haiti.
It is you who set in motion the stars and seas, you who
raised up the mountains of the Massif de la Hotte and Pic La Selle.
It is you who made her people in your very image:
Their gregarious hearts, generous spirits,
their hunger and thirst for righteousness and liberty.
It is you, O Lord, who planted the rhythms of konpa, Twoubadou,
and zouk in the streets of Cite-Soleil. You who walk the paths
outside of Jacmel and Hinche. Your people, O Lord, cry out to you.
Haiti, O Haiti: the world’s oldest black republic,
the second-oldest republic in the Western world.
You are a God who answers the cries of the suffering.
You are a God who sees, frees, and redeems your people.
“I too have heard the moaning of my people,” you spoke to Moses.
Now, Lord, speak to Chanté, Agwe, Nadege, and Jean Joseph.
Speak now, O Lord, and comfort Antoine, Jean-Baptiste,
Toto, and Djakout. Raise up your people from the ash heap
of destruction and give them strong hearts and hands,
shore up their minds and spirits. Help them to bear this new burden.
As for us, Lord, we who are far away from the rubble and the dust, the sobbing and the moans, but who hold them close in our hearts, imbue us with the strength of Simon the Cyrene.
Help us to carry the Haitian cross; show us how to lighten the yoke
with our prayers, our aid, our resources. Teach us to work harder
for justice in our own country and dignity in Haiti,
so that we may stand with integrity when we hold our Haitian families in our arms once again.
We ask this in the name of Jezikri, Jesus Christ. Amen.
(c) Rose Marie Berger (Reprint freely. Downloadable version here.)
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