Entries from The WIP Contributors tagged with 'Haiti'
Hands On in Haiti: Defying Disaster and Questioning Humanitarianism
by Michelle Chen -USA- It's been weeks since I left Haiti, but the fractured images of the ruined city replay themselves like a battered flipbook. • Mango sellers in Haiti. Photograph by Hands On volunteer Nathan Gray. • Speeding through...
Haiti’s Incarcerated Minors: My Friends, the Children Ask for Freedom
by Alice Speri -Haiti- Eleven-year-old Carmen Suze quarreled with a classmate and ended up in jail. Barely audible, she explains that her friend had lifted her skirt and had been the first to throw a rock. The plastic butterfly hairclips...
Anne Firth Murray’s Paradigm Found: Global Recovery for the 21st Century
by Katharine Daniels Executive Editor, The WIP In advance of International Women’s Day, celebrated around the world on March 8, The WIP is reposting this interview from last March with Anne Firth Murray, founder of The Global Fund for Women...
How to Solve the Food Crisis: Cut trade barriers and start a Green Revolution in Africa, says Jeffrey Sachs
by Eva Sohlman - Sweden - In Haiti people eat cakes baked with mud for lack of flour. In Bangladesh, Indonesia and across Africa, riots are spreading among the hungry. And in the world’s richest country, the United States, the...
Poverty and Food Crisis: from the Philippines to Haiti
by Imelda V. Abaño - Philippines - Hunger is the most crucial manifestation of poverty. In many parts of the world, the soaring prices of food, fuel and other basic goods have triggered social unrest and a growing sense of...
A Current between Shores: On Aging
by Rose-Anne Clermont - Germany - Around the time little girls become preoccupied with their own reflections, I remember scanning the various jars of creams and tonics on my mother’s make-up table. I couldn’t yet read so well, but I...
A Current between Shores: On Religion
by Rose-Anne Clermont - Germany - While children around the world are taught that God loves all people, even the most pious of nations repress homosexuals; marginalize and abuse women; neglect the rights of children and wage war on fellow...
A Current between Shores: On Children
by Rose-Anne Clermont - Germany - My sister doesn’t have any children. Neither does my female cousin, nor my sister-in-law. A close female friend of mine from college wants kids but her relationship woes and her career haven’t allowed for...
A Current between Shores: Womanhood and Marriage
by Rose-Anne Clermont - Germany - “Love one another but make not a bond of love: Give your hearts, but not into each other’s keeping. . . Stand together, yet not too near together: For the pillars of the temple...
A Current between Shores: Leaving Home
by Rose-Anne Clermont - Germany - They leave holding only their children's small hands in their own. A crumpled photo of a relative might find its place among their few possessions. Most often it is nothing more than a prospect—of...
A Current between Shores: On Education
by Rose-Anne Clermont - Germany - Before we had our own children, my husband and I began sponsoring a child in Senegal named Absa, a pretty little girl with clever eyes. • Absa in Senegal. Photo courtesy of World Vision...
A Current between Shores: From Scarcity to Excess
by Rose-Anne Clermont - Germany - As a child, my parents told me almost every day to be grateful for the food on my plate. When I occasionally grimaced at the offerings, my father would say, “No problem, we can...
A Current between Shores: Dictatorship & Democracy
by Rose-Anne Clermont - Germany - January 30th marks the 75th "anniversary" of Hitler's rise to power. Today, appropriately, we begin a nine-part series by Rose-Anne Clermont conceived as "Parallel Histories from Different Worlds." The series begins with the early...
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