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Haiti After the Hurricane: A Year Later People Are Still Going Hungry Haiti After the Hurricane

26 August 2009 Comments: 0

By LAURA RAYMOND and BILL QUIGLEY

Until the sum­mer of 2008, Orlande Noel sup­ported his fam­ily of eight by oper­at­ing a truck­ing busi­ness in Gonaives, Haiti, a town of around two hun­dred thou­sand people.

A year later, only 30% of the mud that cov­ered the city of Gonaives has been removed.

A year later, peo­ple still have no free, clean water; it must be bought from ven­dors on the street.

What to do?

Laura Ray­mond and Bill Quigley both work on global human rights at the Cen­ter for Con­sti­tu­tional Rights. Laura recently returned from Gonaives. Those who want to finan­cially con­tribute to hur­ri­cane relief can sup­port the social justice-oriented hur­ri­cane relief work of Part­ners in Health by vis­it­ing www.pih.org. Con­tact Laura Ray­mond at laura.raymond@yahoo.com. Con­tact Bill Quigley at quigley77@gmail.com.

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