| HAITI: Don't forget the elderly |
 PORT-AU-PRINCE, 12 March 2010 (IRIN) - Elderly people need more attention in the response to January's earthquake in Haiti and more appreciation of the role they can play in the relief effort, say aid workers.
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| HAITI: US remittances keep the homeland afloat |
 NEW YORK, 11 March 2010 (IRIN) - Haiti's economy depends on the estimated US$1.5 billion a year in remittances sent home by its million-strong diaspora. Dilip Ratha, lead economist at the World Bank, said the figure could be even higher, accounting for perhaps half the national income.
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| HAITI: Josephine, "I won't leave until I point out the rapists to the police" |
 PORT-AU-PRINCE, 9 March 2010 (IRIN) - Josephine*, 17, was living alone on the streets of Port-au-Prince when the earthquake hit. She lost the few belongings she had - mostly clothes. She now stays at the Jean-Marie Vincent camp for displaced families.
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| HAITI: Women at risk in the camps |
 PORT-AU-PRINCE, 9 March 2010 (IRIN) - Many women at the Jean-Marie Vincent site for displaced people (IDPs) in Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince wash themselves inside their makeshift tents because the only alternative is to do so out in the open. Given the overcrowding and meagre security, this exposes them to the risk of attack or rape.
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| HAITI: After the quake, the deluge |
 PORT-AU-PRINCE, 3 March 2010 (IRIN) - Thirteen dead. Submerged houses. Fields and banana plantations waterlogged. Drowned livestock. Impassable roads. Fresh trauma for quake-displaced thousands. This is the plight of Les Cayes, a city on Haiti’s south coast, after an unseasonal deluge. And hurricane season is not far off.
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| HAITI: Disasters fuel migration, diaspora fuels economy |
 NAIROBI, 21 February 2010 (IRIN) - With eight natural disasters in Haiti since 1994, January’s earthquake is likely to see hundreds of thousands more Haitians emigrate, not only to escape the impact of the latest disaster but also to avoid the next one - as well as political strife and poverty.
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| HAITI: Tarps, not tents, please |
 DAKAR, 11 February 2010 (IRIN) - With the rainy season just weeks away in Haiti, where over a million people are still living in the open, there is an urgent need for waterproof shelter best met by tarps rather than tents, according to aid workers.
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| HAITI: Funding gap for nutrition |
 DAKAR, 9 February 2010 (IRIN) - Donors have earmarked just 6 percent of the funds sought for post-earthquake nutritional assistance to women and children in Haiti, according to the UN.
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| HAITI: Schools slow to reopen |
 PORT-AU-PRINCE, 5 February 2010 (IRIN) - A call by Haiti’s government for schools to reopen in areas spared by the earthquake has gone largely unheeded because of parents’ fears and financial woes.
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| HAITI: Minimizing food aid mayhem |
 PORT-AU-PRINCE, 3 February 2010 (IRIN) - As food distributions spread to more parts of Port-au-Prince, so have kilometre-long lines of hungry, at times angry, people pressed against various crowd-control barriers: ropes, a corrugated steel wall, an army platoon, even a hole in the ground. IRIN joined the line in various food distributions in and out of the city to ask people on both sides of these barriers: what’s the best way to do this?
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