Haiti Gears Up for Kanaval

For the past month, on Sunday nights, thousands of Haitians have been taking to the streets to celebrate Kanaval.  The yearly festival is marked by RaRa bands, floats, costumes and parades, and will culminate in a massive celebration in Jacmel on the weekend of February 26th, and another in PAP the following weekend. David and [...]

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Riots Cripple Port-au-Prince As UN Troops Fight Protesters With Force

Tens of thousands of protesters flooded the streets of Port-au-Prince Wednesday, leaving the city crippled after the results of the November 28th presidential elections were announce late Tuesday night.  The protesters, many of which were supporters of Michel Martelly who was left out of the country’s January 16th second-round run-off, erected roadblocks at practically every [...]

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Cholera Reaches Port-au-Prince as Victims Are Left In Mass Graves

The cholera epidemic that has killed over 1,300 people and left tens of thousands sick has reached the capital city of Port-au-Prince, and is quietly taking it toll on a population that lack proper access to sanitation and hygiene.  Aid workers are not concerned so much with the disease reaching the larger tent camps, as [...]

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Learning How to Walk Again: Prostheses in Haiti

I recently went to the Healing Hands for Haiti prosthetic and orthopedic clinic in downtown PAP to assist a photographer who was shooting pictures for the Red Cross, and had the time to shoot some pictures myself.  The clinic has been up and running since just after the earthquake, and according to their Program Director [...]

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Cholera Epidemic Hits Haiti

Haiti could literally not be more unlucky.  Just 10 months after a devastating earthquake killed over 200,000 people, left 1.3 million homeless, and practically destroyed any semblance of government, a cholera epidemic has swept through the central plateau region of the country killing over 300 people, and leaving thousands of sick in its wake.  Last [...]

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6 Month Later: Changes (or the Lack Thereof)

The 6-month anniversary of the earthquake in Haiti has come and gone, and after heavy media coverage and a slew of government events, the Haitian people have been reminded, yet again, that their situation sucks and nothing has really improved.  I’ve been trying to think about how to sum up the events of the past [...]

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Meet Jean “Handy” Tibert: The Man Who Started The Petionville Golf Course Tent-City

On January 12th, when the ground in Port-au-Prince started to shake violently, Jean Tibert (or Handy, as his friends call him) was teaching a class on video production in a large building on the main drag that funnels through the city.  The walls started to shake, things started falling off the walls, and the class [...]

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Haitian World Cup Fever

It’s now a week into the World Cup, and Haiti’s got a fever.  A fever for more World Cup!  Soccer is life for Haitians, and in a country where there is very little to celebrate, the World Cup is like four weeks of Christmas! Everyone is decked out in their jerseys, and if they can’t [...]

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A 360˚ Panoramic View of Port-au-Prince

An NBC team just left PAP after a quick, 5-day jaunt covering the World Cup craziness here in Haiti, and it was a great time.  We watched the World Cup on a huge 30 foot screen at the national soccer stadium, checked out some tent cities that are still really struggling, and were spectators for [...]

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Can your car float?

In PAP you get the chance to find out!!! On the list of things that Haiti is lacking, infrastructure is probably near the top (just under pants).  So on our way back into PAP from Leogane last week, we got to drive through some pretty knarly flooding on the only road that gets you access [...]

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