TomVanderwell Haiti News Democ, Haiti 0 Comment
A friend of mine who works in Port Au Prince posted this and asked for people to share it and take part in the survey if they felt they knew enough about Haiti and its government to respond intelligently. Please help propagate the following survey: The state and the prospects for Democracy in Haiti Aim [...]
TomVanderwell Haiti News, Ways to Partner Adoption, Haiti, USCIS 0 Comment
Jodi Tucker from the Christian Alliance for Orphans sent me this (and posted it on Facebook). The US government is looking for input about people’s experiences with the US government during the process of adoptions. In order for the input to be used in a Senate Foreign Relations Roundtable on March 1, they [...]
Dixie And Life Goes On, Haiti News, Our Kids GLA, God's Littlest Angels, Haiti, Orphanage 1 Comment
I had to take my son, Mark, down to his school this afternoon (Saturday) because he had a basketball game. We left the house at 1:45 PM and didn’t get back home until 8 PM! I hate going down to Port-au-Prince on Saturdays. The traffic is horrible and I don’t really like driving home in [...]
TomVanderwell Haiti News, Ways to Partner God's Littlest Angels, Haiti, Orphans 2 Comments
Thursday night we had the first team meeting for the 18 of us who are going down to GLA this summer to help. I was talking to one of the team members afterward and he said, “You know, I’ve been asksd a question and I don’t really know the answer – maybe you can help. [...]
TomVanderwell Haiti News Farming, Haiti, New York Times 0 Comment
Haiti Can Be Rich Again – NYTimes.com Haiti Can Be Rich AgainBy LAURENT DUBOIS and DEBORAH JENSONPublished: January 8, 2012 HAITI wasn’t always the “poorest nation in the Western hemisphere,” though it’s almost impossible to read about the country today without coming across that phrase. In the two years since the earthquake that devastated it, [...]
TomVanderwell And Life Goes On, Deep Thoughts, Haiti News, Orphan Care, Our Kids, Video, Ways to Partner earthquake, Haiti, Orphan 0 Comment
Those of us who were involved with Haiti on Jan. 12, 2010 will always remember 4:53 PM that afternoon. That’s the time when, for 35 seconds, the earth shook violently under Port Au Prince Haiti. Hundreds of thousands died on that day and shortly after and for literally millions of people, the world changed forever. [...]
TomVanderwell Haiti News earthquake, Haiti 0 Comment
Haiti – Reconstruction : 2 years after, 50% of debris removed – HaitiLibre.com, Haiti News, The haitian people’s voice Haiti – Reconstruction : 2 years after, 50% of debris removed08/01/2012 11:04:17 The return safely of the people to their home neighbourhoods of origin to resume their everyday life and supporting the development of the private [...]
TomVanderwell Haiti News earthquake, Haiti 0 Comment
Haiti – Humanitarian : 1,050 transitional shelters built in Petit-Goâve and Grand-Goâve – HaitiLibre.com, Haiti News, The haitian people’s voice Haiti – Humanitarian : 1,050 transitional shelters built in Petit-Goâve and Grand-Goâve 1.050 transitional shelters have been built for the inhabitants of Petit-Goâve and Grand-Goâve, through the hard work of 18 months, of 214 Haitians [...]