Haiti earthquake

Earthquake survivor Krishna Kumari Khadka is rescued from a collapsed building in Kathmandu by French, Israeli and Norwegian rescue teams six days after the April 25, 2015 earthquake in Nepal.

Five things the international community shouldn’t do after a disaster

April 30, 2015Development

When disasters like earthquakes strikes in far-off countries, our first instinct is to help in any way we can. But sometimes that help actually gets in the way of recovery. That’s what reporter Jonathan Katz experienced after the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, and he has suggestions on how to avoid a repeat.

A Haitian woman carries produce to be sold in Port-au-Prince on March 15, 2011. An estimated three million people were affected by the earthquake in 2010.

After surviving Haiti’s earthquake, Laura Wagner turned to fiction

January 9, 2015Books