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Haiti Cholera
2:49 pm
Tue January 15, 2013

After Bringing Cholera To Haiti, U.N. Plans To Get Rid Of It

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Haitians protest against the United Nations peacekeepers in Port-au-Prince in November 2010.
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Men bathe in a branch of the Artibonite River outside Saint-Marc. Haiti's cholera outbreak in 2010 began about 60 miles upstream from here.
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Originally published on Sat January 12, 2013 11:11 pm

Not quite 10 months after Haiti's devastating 2010 earthquake, a more insidious disaster struck: cholera.

Haiti hadn't seen cholera for at least a century. Then suddenly, the first cases appeared in the central highlands near a camp for United Nations peacekeeping forces.

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AIDS In Haiti
7:00 am
Tue January 15, 2013

A Poetic Journey After The Quake: HIV/AIDs In Haiti

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Alex, 17, lives in the municipality of Carrefour.
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Joel, the pastor whose hands are seen at right, visiting a sick young woman and her child in Carrefour. Despite fatigue and poverty, his faith keeps him resilient.
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Malia Jean, dressing for church, formed an agency for women infected and affected by H.I.V. In the process, she passed on the help that she had been given.
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  • Reporter Patricia Sagastume spoke with poet Kwame Dawes about one specific love story within Voices of Haiti.

The devastating 2010 earthquake in Haiti demolished the country's health care system along with everything else.

But from the ruins came Voices of Haiti -- an odyssey in verse that grew out of a commission from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting to document HIV/AIDS after the quake. The multimedia project, which came to the University of Miami this year, blends Haitian voices to conjure up images of strength, hope and faith.

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Haiti Earthquake Anniversary
8:30 am
Fri January 11, 2013

Three Years After The Haiti Earthquake, An Unsure Future For One Woman And Her Country

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Fabienne Jean prepares food in Haiti.
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All this week we've been bringing you the story of Fabienne Jean, a dancer who lost her right leg three years ago in the earthquake in Haiti.

Fabienne’s right leg was crushed and had to be amputated. When she danced again, she was hailed as a symbol of Haiti’s post-earthquake recovery.

But as reporter Jacob Kushner discovered during the year he spent reporting on this story, the quest to rebuild one woman’s life would take much more than that.

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Haiti
8:01 am
Fri January 11, 2013

On The Anniversary Of The Haiti Earthquake: Has The Diaspora 'Checked Out?'

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It's been three years since an earthquake leveled Port au Prince and shook all of us indirectly in South Florida, home to the nation's largest population of Haitian-Americans.

Miami Herald reporter Jacqueline Charles remembers January 12, 2010, well.

That day, Charles was in the process of writing a story about Haiti's latest mess, a controversy over the government taking a loan from Venezuela to help the country rebuild an airport.

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Haiti Three Years Later: Part IV
6:00 am
Thu January 10, 2013

After The Haiti Earthquake, Fabienne Jean Dances Again

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Fabienne Jean sits at home with her prosthetic leg propped up.
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By Jacob Kushner

 

All this week we've been bringing you the story of Fabienne Jean, a dancer who lost her leg in the earthquake in Haiti three years ago. A prosthetic technician from Boston helped Fabienne get a replacement leg.

He hoped to help her recover in other ways too: to start  a business, buy a house and open up a dance studio. 

But none of these things came to pass. Late spring, Fabienne was struggling to find money to take care of her bedridden mother and adopted daughter. 

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Haiti Three Years Later: Part III
6:00 am
Wed January 9, 2013

Slideshow: Fabienne Jean, Three Years After The Haiti Earthquake

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Fabienne Jean sits contemplative at home.
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Fabienne's stump and scars from a skin graff.
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A photo of Fabienne at a dentist's office in Boston, MA before having her teeth worked on.
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Fabienne looks toward her daughter Christina as she looks at a book.
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Fabienne's mother who was in February still recovering from a a stroke she suffered sits up in her bed. She has since died.
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Fabienne in the doorway of the part of her home where she cooks.
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Fabienne sweeps the floor of the bedroom of her home.
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Fabienne walks alongside an exterior wall of her home after purchasing some ingredients from her neighbor.
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Fabienne prepares a meal for her daughter and mother at home.
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Fabienne's daughter Christina looks intently at her mother as she dresses her.
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Fabienne's daughter Christina performs a back bend at home.
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Fabienne Jean sits at home with her prosthetic leg propped up on a coffee table.
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By Jacob Kushner

All week long we've been bringing you the story of Fabienne Jean, a dancer who lost her leg in the earthquake in Haiti three years ago this month. 

A prosthetic technician from Boston heard her story and fitted Fabienne with a fake leg. He tried to help Fabienne recover in other ways too. He hatched plans to help her start her business, buy a house and open a dance studio to raise money for Haitian amputees. 

But as reporter Jacob Kushner discovered, Fabienne's recovery has been a slow, frustrating process. 

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Topical Currents
1:00 pm
Tue January 8, 2013

HAITI: The Aftershocks of History

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HAITI: The Aftershocks of History
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01/08/13 - Tuesday's Topical Currents is with historian Laurent Dubois, author of HAITI:  The Aftershocks of History.  Even before the 2010 earthquake destroyed much of the country, Haiti was known for its poverty and corruption.  Dubois says Haiti can only be understood by its complex past and inception as the only successful slave revolt in world history.  Can a new Haiti emerge from its legacy?

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Haiti Three Years Later: Part II
6:00 am
Tue January 8, 2013

After The Earthquake: A Haitian Dancer's Highs And Lows As She Recovers From An Amputation

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Fabienne Jean in the doorway of the part of her home where she cooks.
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By Jacob Kushner

Yesterday we began the story of Fabienne Jean, a dancer who lost her leg in the earthquake that devastated Haiti three years ago this month. A prosthetic technician from Boston promised to help Fabienne dance again. But he didn't stop there. He wanted to help her put the rest of her life back together too. 

In the second part of our week-long series, Jacob Kushner tells us how difficult their task would become. 

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Haiti Three Years Later: Part I
6:00 am
Mon January 7, 2013

Haiti Three Years After The Earthquake: Still Rebuilding A Life

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Fabienne Jean walks outside her home in Haiti.
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  • Part I: Three years after the earthquake in Haiti, Fabienne Jean is still rebuilding a life.

The earthquake that struck Haiti three years ago this month sent a concrete wall crashing down onto the 30-year-old dancer Fabienne Jean. Her right leg was crushed and had to be amputated. When Fabienne danced again, she was hailed as a symbol of Haiti’s post-earthquake recovery.

But as reporter Jacob Kushner discovered, the quest to rebuild one woman’s life would take much more than that.

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Haiti Earthquake
1:11 pm
Wed October 3, 2012

One Year After The Quake: “Las Twins”

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Carmen Maria Romero
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Carmen Maria Romero’s team in Haiti: “My goal was to train as many persons with disabilities, caregivers, and villagers as I could.”
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Carmen Maria Romero observes as a paraplegic patient just fitted with a wheelchair tries it out.
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Carmen Maria Romero was one of the four medical workers in Haiti whose voices you heard in After the Quake: Patients and Healers. She’s a physical therapist who had already been volunteering in Haiti for ten years, and who traveled there last January to help with the relief efforts.

Romero was so moved by the suffering and the resilience of her patients that she decided to quit her job and relocate to Haiti.

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Haiti Earthquake
2:38 pm
Wed January 11, 2012

Lost Between Two Nations

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Franco Coby spent a week in a Port-au-Prince jail after being deported to Haiti.
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This meal, cooked at his family’s Fort Myers home, is in stark contrast to the meals Coby was given in jail.
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By Jacob Kushner

When an earthquake struck Haiti in January 2010, the United States stopped deporting Haitian immigrants to the devastated nation. But deportations resumed last January, and Franco Coby, 24, of Fort Myers, found himself banished from the country he grew up in since the age of 6.

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