Tag: Haiti

Medecins sans froniteres / Doctors without borders has embedded a new slideshow we want to let you know about. It is narrated by an MSF communications officer, Michael Goldfarb, who also took the photographs during a two-week visit to Haiti in March, 2010. He accompanied MSF field staff on assessments of living conditions in makeshift camps where people had been living without basic assistance. A few days ago MSF published an article about the current ...

  Dear Sama-Readers, we are pleased to present our Twitter Sunday Rendezvous! Today we decided to share with you our Favorites Tweets @UNICEF. The organization has been very active to help people in Haiti after the earthquake (Read our post about Haiti:Haiti: compassion, communication, occupation… Education? and Haiti: International aid mobilization on the way). But UNICEF also provides support in many countries: Senegal, Somalia, West Bengal, Syria, ...

  Last week, we posted an article: Haiti: International Aid Mobilization On The Way. Like everyone, we wanted to react about the earthquake that devastated Haiti and express our compassion and our solidarity with the Haitians. There is not one day we do not talk about it and yesterday, Max Dana published on her Blog titled: ‘Haiti: compassion, communication, occupation… Education?’.   This article is worth to read if you want to go ...

  A day after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake devastated Haiti, cities and villages have been swept away and destroyed like a house of cards. Everyone has seen the videos and the photos of the devastated nation, with the flattened buildings and the stunned people wandering the streets of Port-au-Prince, seeking for help. We can’t look away and it’s impossible to remain indifferent. A whole country needs help and lives are currently at stake; ...