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Corinne Joachim Sanon went back to Haiti to start a business, and she located her business, Askanya Chcolatiers, in the house where her grandmother grew up.

Eight years after the earthquake, a different taste of Haiti

Business

After the 2010 earthquake devasted Haiti, there was an outpouring of international support. Eight years later, most of those who rushed in to help are long gone. But many of those who remain are people with ties to Haiti, and ome of them started businesses that are getting some traction.

Successful energy development program in Haiti shut down because of funding

Business, Economics and Jobs

Saving Haiti’s art and culture

Arts, Culture & Media

Charity may harm Haiti’s health

Health & Medicine

Recycled trash to fuel Haiti

Environment
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In Haiti, Success Isn’t Enough to Keep Innovative Energy Program Alive

Global Politics

In a follow-up to a story she first reported two years ago, The World’s Amy Bracken explores the reasons for the demise of a program that everyone seemed to love.

L’Eglise Sainte Rose de Lima

Lifestyle & Belief

Léogane was one of the first towns I saw in Haiti when I moved here in 2003. It was my second day, and I carpooled with members of the Haitian Journalists Association to the dusty little town an hour from Port-au-Prince to attend a protest outside a church. The priest had expelled a reporter during […]

Invisible Grace

Arts, Culture & Media

A few months ago, it was impossible to move around Port-au-Prince unaware of the thousands of families still homeless after the January 2010 earthquake. Tent camps – with their tattered blue and gray tarps and make-shift structures of plywood and rusting metalware – were set up in the streets, on median strips, and in the main parks of Petion-Ville and Port-au-Prince. Men, women and children bathed in buckets in the street.

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Haiti’s Iconic National Palace Set for Demolition

Global Politics

Haiti’s government announced that the National Palace will be torn down, with work beginning in 10 days.

Two Years After Earthquake, Symbols of Resilience Sprout in Haiti

Environment

Journalist Dave Iverson return to Haiti, two years after the 2010 earthquake, to find surprising forms of resilience.

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