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Bending the rules of aid distribution
The two rules of aid distributions are usually 1) you have to have a card to receive aid, and 2) you need to be a woman.
Formation, Animation, Discovery for Haiti’s kids
On Saturday morning, we didn't need an alarm to wake us up. We set the program to begin at 8:30am, but at 7am kids are already on the ground waiting.
Waking up in the mud
Haitian student Emmanuel Midi reports for Inside Disaster on the aftermath of yesterday's rainstorm in Port-au-Prince.
Time to skip town
Don’t worry Haitian friends, we have enough images in our psychological luggage to knead our brains for weeks to come; we won’t forget your plight as we settle back into our comfortable Toronto lifestyles.
First aid: Camp Marassa
I haven’t seen a camp like this until now, 17 days after the earthquake. Even in Cite Soleil people seemed to be better off than this.
You never, ever know…
Neighbors had heard her calls and called the Haitian police, who called in the rescue team. Fifteen days after being buried, is this possible?
Life and death in Cite Soleil
I watched the people in the front row get their legs caught in the barbwire as the crowd walked over them. A good video journalist would have kept filming.
“It’s worse than a war zone”
CBC's Matt Galloway interviews Inside Disaster director Nadine Pequeneza from Haiti.
A brief history of Haiti: how natural are “natural disasters”?
Haiti's history reveals that the structural inequalities in the country run deeper than the foundations of it's fallen buildings.
Dignity and Disasters: “bearing witness” to the suffering of others
When does "witnessing" trespass into voyeurism and violate the dignity of those that we are seeking to help? Does image upon image of piled dead bodies actually increase our comprehension of the tragedy as it unfolds?
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