CORAIL-CESSELESSE, Haiti -- It was after midnight in a remote annex of this isolated tent camp on a windswept gravel plain. Marjorie Saint Hilaire's three boys were fast asleep, but her mind was racing.
Ms. Felicien read one appeal for help as other camp residents listened. "It is like we are bobbing along on the waves of the ocean, waiting to be saved," she said.
The camp leader had proposed writing letters to the nongovernment authorities, and she had so much to say. She lighted a candle and summoned a gracious sentiment with which to begin.
"To all the members of concerned organizations, I thank you first for feeling our pain," she wrote slowly in pencil on what became an eraser-smudged page. "I note that you have taken on almost all our problems and some of our greatest needs."
UNITED NATIONS -- The United Nations has launched a new website to ensure the efficient use of the more than $9 billion in aid pledged to Haiti at a donor's conference last month.
Martin Nesirky, spokesman for the UN secretary-general, said Thursday the website is intended to help the Haitian government address the challenges linked to the management of foreign aid.
The site is intended to help hold donors to their promises and ensure transparency and accountability in the use of the money.
At the March meeting, nearly 50 donors pledged a total of $9.9 billion in aid to help Haiti recover from the 7.0-magnitude earthquake that devastated the capital Port-au-Prince. The Jan. 12 quake killed more than 200,000 people and left 1.3 million homeless.
The site's address is . http://www.refondation.ht
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Haïti, une traversée littéraire [Haiti, a Literary Voyage] is a new book by Louis- Philippe Dalembert and Lyonel Trouillot (Éditions Philippe Rey/Culturesfrance, Paris, 2010).
Description: Haiti is not only the country where "Négritude stood up for the first time," in the words of Aimé Césaire. The former French colony of Saint Domingue, which became independent in 1804, has since maintained an extraordinary flourishing of literary creation. Thus, from d'Anténor Firmin (De l'égalité des races humaines) to Marie Vieux-Chauvet (Amour, Colère, Folie), along with Jean-Price Mars (Ainsi parla l'oncle) and Jacques Roumain (Gouverneurs de la rosée), the dynamism of this literature is well documented. Today, it is written in both languages of the country, French and Creole, in Haiti as well as in its diaspora. French publishing houses tout, for example, the works of Georges Castera , Dany Laferrière , Yanick Lahens , Gary Victor, Kettly March, Edwidge Danticat, Evelyne Trouillot, and many others. Haïti, une traversée littéraire presents a journey through this literature as it was created, is created, and distributed today. An anthology of selected texts by Louis -Philippe Dalembert and Lyonel Trouillot, an audio CD, and a sound archive, complete the literary journey. The audio CD includes the voices of René Depestre, Frankétienne, Emile Ollivier, the sound archives of INA plus an excerpt from "Pierrot le Noir" by Jean -Richard Laforest, Émile Ollivier, and Anthony Phelps.
The anthology was published with the collaboration of Yves Chemla, teacher, researcher, and author of La Question de l'Autre dans le roman haïtien contemporain (Ibis Rouge éditions, 2003).
Representatives of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) based in Haiti and the Dominican Republic have reached agreement on the preparation of a binational project that will focus on the border region. The initiative will center on transboundary diseases that limit trade in agricultural products; the promotion of agribusinesses for generational change in the countryside; and agricultural technology to cope with climate change.
Non-profit organization Kylti announces the Fly a Haitian Kite Day, to be held on August 22, 2010. Fly a Haitian kite in solidarity with the people of Haiti. People have been purchasing kites made in Haiti for this occasion. At exactly 4:53pm (Haiti earthquake time), people gathered from around the world will fly their Haitian kites high in the sky to remember and honor the earthquake victims. This annual event will celebrate the rising of Haiti and the Haitian people from the rubbles of this terrible disaster, will create jobs in Haiti, and will support Kylti's cultural and arts projects.
Live TV/Radio Debate
Ann Pote Kole Pou Nou Ka Reconstwi Ayiti
July 15th, 2010
Haiti held the first of what is expected to be a series of nationally televised "Town Hall" on 15 July 2010 with representatives of the Government, the international community, the Haitian civil society and the representatives of displaced communities taking centre stage to speak out about their plight. The debate was interactive with viewers and listeners sending in questions by SMS which were read out by the moderator Clarens Renois.
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