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Education Was Also Leveled by Quake in Haiti - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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      jonathanb442 wcta on 31 Jan 11
       
      Wow. All theire schools are a pile of rubble.
  • Haiti’s best universities are in wreckage, their campuses now jumbles of collapsed concrete, mangled desks and chairs, and buried coursework. Hundreds of professors and students were entombed, although the exact number of dead is complicated by the fact that class lists and computer registries were also wiped out by the quake.
  • That protest saved a lot of lives,”
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  • It was arguably a shortage of educated professionals in Haiti that ensured so much of Haiti would collapse.
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Haitian Cuisine & Other Facts About The Food In Haiti. - 0 views

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  • Fruits and vegetables such as pineapples, sweet potatoes, and corn were cultivated by early Haitian tribes.
  • Throughout its history, several countries controlled Haiti, introducing food from their native lands. Haitian cuisine is mainly a mixture of those countries.
  • The country was once almost covered in virgin forests but these have now been reduced and now only cover about 4% of Haiti.
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Facing A Food Crisis in Haiti - 0 views

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  • Anger over the cost of food got to be too much for hundreds of people who took to the streets across Haiti in protest in early April, burning tires and forcing businesses to shut down.
  • At least four people died.
  • The cost of basic food staples, including rice, beans and corn, has increased by an average of 50 percent in recent months in the Caribbean nation.
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  • The rise can be attributed to overall food prices on the world market, compounded here by the consequences of two devastating tropical storms last year and soaring transportation costs.
  • The crisis reaches all levels of society. But the very poorest are paying the highest price. These are the people in urban and rural areas, where unemployment is rampant, who can barely find enough to eat even in the best of times.
  • As food prices increase, desperation is spreading among the poor and working poor all the way up to the working class,
  • Imported rice has become one of the most important staples in Haiti, which only produces about 20 percent of the rice Haitians consume.
  • CRS has committed an initial $150,000 to support our food distribution partners in urban areas of Haiti.
  • That money is in addition to the $7 million worth of food CRS is already distributing to organizations throughout the country that care for thousands of Haiti's poorest and most vulnerable groups, including orphans, the elderly and people living with HIV.
  • With more than 50 years of experience in Haiti, CRS is now one of the largest U.S. humanitarian organizations working in the country.
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List of Nonprofit Organizations Helping Haiti | eHow.com - 0 views

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  • HERO is a health and education relief organization that assists those devastated by natural disasters. The group helps with a variety of projects, including health, education and infrastructure. It has helped establish medical clinics and new hospitals, as well as schools in various parts of the country. Infrastructure programs have helped establish water supplies and improve transportation by re-creating a runway.
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      CORINNA wcta on 10 Feb 11
       
      Corinna Florez period 7
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