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...

Posted by Michelle Chen on August 20, 2010 12:01 AM

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...

Posted by Alice Speri on July 23, 2010 12:01 AM