by David Mcfadden The Associated Press, 2 min read, original "We get a little bit to eat and drink each day, but it's never enough to get our...
ON HAITI: As drought hammers countryside, many in Haiti go hungry
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ON DEVELOPMENT: It’s Not a Food Truck. It’s a Mobile Kitchen Feeding Refugees
globalvoices.org, by Public Radio International, Feb. 13, 2016, 3 min read, original This article by Adeline Sire for The World originally appeared...
ON HAITI: Persistent drought threatens millions with hunger in Haiti – U.N.
news.trust.org, 1 min read, original By Anastasia Moloney BOGOTA, Feb 10 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Around 3.6 million people in Haiti are...
ON DEVELOPMENT: Progress in the global war on poverty
csmonitor.com, by Steven Radelet, February 7, 2016, 13 min read, original Washington — The headlines on any given day suggest a world under siege....
ON DEVELOPMENT: Brazil’s School Lunch Program Is Putting Food on the Table for the Country’s Small Farmers
PRI The World, pulitzercenter.org, Feb. 10, 2016, 4 min read, original Two women walk between rows of pumpkin plants in the outskirts of Promissão,...
AFGHANISTAN; DEVELOPMENT: UN reduces Afghanistan appeal but urges other donors to do more
As hunger and malnutrition threaten millions of Afghans, UN in Kabul says US aid to the country is ‘small change’ compared with its military...
ON DEVELOPMENT: Getting Rid of Helping that Hurts
By Catherine Parrill, Founder, Creative Exchanges Initiative, Jan 9, 2016 Twenty-five years ago I went to Haiti to work in a school. It was a short...
ON DEVELOPMENT: The Negative Effects on Haiti of Too Much Foreign Aid
dailysignal.com, Commentary: James M. Roberts, Dec. 18, 2015, original In Haiti, the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere, the wheels of...
HAITI, DEVELOPMENT: Ignoring the plight of the poor in Haiti
bostonglobe.com, Commentary by Louise C. Ivers, Nov. 19, 2015, original Haitian human rights activists and victims of cholera rallied last month in...
HAITI, DEVELOPMENT: Could a Superfood Help Save Haiti’s Forests? [No!]
takepart.com, Oct. 30, 2015, original Haiti is the most impoverished country in the northern hemisphere, and trees, or the lack thereof, are part of...
AFGHANISTAN, DEVELOPMENT: The Next Refugee Crisis: Afghanistan
New York Times, OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR By MICHAEL KUGELMAN, OCTOBER 21, 2015 WASHINGTON — With the war in Afghanistan heating up, thousands of Afghan...
HAITI, DEVELOPMENT – To find success in Haiti’s recovery, go local
devex.com, by Catherine Cheney, 21 September 2015, original A roadside market in Haiti. Photo by: Catherine Cheney / DevexThe release of former...