This radio broadcast from WHYY reports on Haiti, one year after the devastating earthquake: http://whyy.org/cms/radiotimes/2011/01/24/haiti-a-year-after-the-earthquake/
Along with the many kinds of treatment for displaced and traumatized people, cultural issues arise, such as the tension and difference between what we think of as standard Western medicine and herbs or local religious-oriented therapies. Partners in Health is an organization working on such health issues in Haiti and in other places around the world that need it. Their website, which includes other information on this topic, is: http://www.pih.org/
Remember Chad Bissonnette, our keynote speaker from the 2010 conference? Here is a great article about him and the work of his organization, Roots of Development, in Haiti. It addresses some of the questions posed here, and feel free to add your own ideas or comment on those shared in the article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chad-w-bissonnette/a-new-mandate-for-develop_b_815706.html The Roots of Development website is http://www.rootsofdevelopment.org/
Sexual violence is a big problem of increasing urgency, in Haiti. This article talks about a Haitian woman's return to her home in Haiti and what she saw: http://worldpulse.com/magazine/columns/visionary-leaders/bearing-witness-girls-and-women-in-haiti-s-camps
If you are interested in photographs of Haiti and particularly the girls growing up in such chaos, here you go: http://www.worldpulse.com/magazine/articles/photo-essay-documenting-the-lives-of-girls-in-haiti (and http://nadiatodres.com/)
There is also political unrest. Read these to learn more: http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-general/20110116/CB.Haiti.Ex.Dictator.Returns/?attr=article_news_general_CB.Haiti.Ex.Dictator.Returns&cid=NET_SZHeadlineRSSLinks and http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/americas/02/01/haiti.duvalier/index.html?eref=rss_latest&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_latest+%28RSS%3A+Most+Recent%29
What do you think? What else can international aid workers do? Is there something new that we should be doing?
