Haiti IDP Camps video 2 from Adam Stofsky on Vimeo.
Thursday, April 1, 2010
APR 2: COLLEGE STUDENTS IN MICHIGAN RAISE MONEY AND VOLUNTEER TO HELP BUILD ORPHANAGE
Students at Lawrence Technological University in Southfield, Michigan staged a volleyball tournament to raise money for a program that is building an orphanage in Haiti while training Haitians on how to build earthquake resistant housing. REACH (Reconstruction Efforts Aiding Children without Homes) was founded by Lawrence Tech alumnus Don Stevens in an effort to build homes for children affected by natural disasters, war and poverty. Three Lawrence Tech students and two alumni spent spring break in Haiti helping build two new homes at an orphanage in Les Cayes.
APR 1: "A HISTORY OF EXPLOITED ECONOMIC POLICY", NPR ON HAITI'S HISTORY AND POVERTY
NPR International Relations With Haiti Have Long Been Complex
NPR: Here's former President Bill Clinton speaking with a reporter about this very subject while in Port-au-Prince, the Haitian capital just after the earthquake.
Unidentified Woman: Are the problems in Haiti in part due to your political policies when you were president?
President Bill Clinton: Yes. It's very difficult to say that now, to people whose loved ones have been killed. But Haiti was a house of cards that we built through a history of exploited economic policy, which has been revealed by this natural disaster. Now we have a chance to rebuild a more independent society, ending exploitation, forgiving their debt and bringing back real sustainability.
Interview with Brian Concannon, director of the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti. Includes the following quote attributed to Bill Clinton while in Haiti (from NPR recording):
NPR: Here's former President Bill Clinton speaking with a reporter about this very subject while in Port-au-Prince, the Haitian capital just after the earthquake.
Unidentified Woman: Are the problems in Haiti in part due to your political policies when you were president?
President Bill Clinton: Yes. It's very difficult to say that now, to people whose loved ones have been killed. But Haiti was a house of cards that we built through a history of exploited economic policy, which has been revealed by this natural disaster. Now we have a chance to rebuild a more independent society, ending exploitation, forgiving their debt and bringing back real sustainability.
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