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Haiti

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UN Peacekeepers Fathered Dozens Of Children In Haiti. The Women They Exploited Are Trying To Get Child Support.

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands September 2, 2021October 19, 2022

“The newborns became toddlers, and the toddlers school children. Soon, they began asking questions. Where is my father? Why don’t I look like the other kids?”

Posted inNonfiction, Story

Finding True North

by Amy Bracken August 13, 2018October 19, 2022

Thousands of Haitians who fled the United States on foot last summer have started very different lives in Canada.

Posted inStory, Travel

Is This the Most Crowded Island in the World? (And Why That Question Matters)

by Alex MacGregor February 19, 2018October 19, 2022

An amateur geographer travels to an undocumented island off the coast of Haiti after stumbling upon it on Google Earth.

Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Quotes

Jesus Is Everywhere in Port-au-Prince, but So Is Vodou

by Aaron Gilbreath January 23, 2018October 19, 2022

Violent tensions have existed between Haiti’s Vodouisants and missionary Christians for centuries.

Volunteers build a house in Canaan, Haiti
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes

The Birth of a City, In Fits and Starts

by michelleweber May 19, 2017October 19, 2022

Communities in Haiti are building their own post-earthquake infrastructure without the help of the government.

Posted inEditor's Pick

They Call It Canaan

by michelleweber May 19, 2017October 19, 2022

In the aftermath of disaster, as new communities thousands-strong coalesce in the countryside around Port-au-Prince, Haitians ask: what makes a city?

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