Jul 14 Haiti Aims to Move Residents Out of Tents, Back Into Habitable Homes By Talea Miller With 1.5 million Haitians still living in tent camps, international organizations and the government are struggling to find legally available land for new settlements and ways to decongest the existing camps. The government is now advising people who can return… Continue reading
Jul 14 Life in Haiti’s Tent Cities By Talea Miller More than 1,300 tent camps are housing an estimated 1.5 million people in Haiti displaced by a powerful earthquake in January. Some camps are well serviced by a variety of NGOs, but other more informal camps have little support. Continue reading
Jul 14 Watch In Haiti, Amputees Face Different Kind of Healing As part of his latest series of reports from Haiti, Ray Suarez details the road ahead for citizens who lost limbs after the country's devastating earthquake in January. Continue watching
Jul 13 What Now in Haiti? President Preval Talks With Ray Suarez By Ray Suarez The temperature has been in the mid-90s, but the humidity makes it feel like it's over 100. The sun pounds the pavement, heat radiates from the cinder block walls that push pedestrians to a narrow strip of sidewalk in most… Continue reading
Jul 13 Watch Preval Assesses Haiti’s Quake Recovery Ray Suarez talks with Haitian President Rene Preval about the recovery the country still faces, six months after a devastating earthquake. Continue watching
Jul 12 Haiti a Patchwork of Starts and Stops on Quake Recovery By Ray Suarez Six months after a powerful earthquake rocked Haiti, more than one million people are still homeless and the people of Port-au-Prince and surrounding regions continue to suffer the economic, physical and mental after-effects of the devastating temblor. The… Continue reading
Jul 12 Watch Politics and Aid Intermingle in Haiti’s Recovery Margaret Warner talks with Ray Suarez, who has returned to Haiti six months after a devastating earthquake. Continue watching
Jul 12 Watch Six Months After Quake, Haiti Still Rebuilding Ray Suarez reports on the still-recovering Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, where some one million people still remain homeless. Continue watching
Jul 09 Dispatch From Haiti: Getting Back to Work in Port-au-Prince By Talea Miller PORT-AU-PRINCE | Renette Saintjuste stocks a dizzying mix of items for her tiny makeshift shop in the Centre Sportif Dadadou tent camp in Haiti's capital. Fresh eggs, dried pasta, soap, earrings and cookware are all for sale to her… Continue reading
Jul 08 Scenes From Haiti, 6 Months After the Earthquake By Talea Miller An estimated 1.5 million Haitians were displaced in January’s earthquake. Six months later, the majority of that population is still living in tent settlements and the medical infrastructure is still fragile. A reporting team from the PBS NewsHour, including… Continue reading