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Helping Haitian quake survivors feel safer [Photos]
Posted by Kate Sands Adams on July 11th, 2010
The IRC's Lucy Carrigan shared these photos from a workshop the IRC organized for the security committee in one of the makeshift camps that sprang up after the Haiti earthquake. more »
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Bracing for an "extreme" hurricane season in Haiti
Posted by Kate Sands Adams on May 28th, 2010
Hurricane season blows into Haiti in June, following months of drenching spring rains. "We’re going to see flooding, we’re going to see landslides," says the IRC's Catherine Jones. more »
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Preparing for hurricane season in Haiti [Podcast]
Posted by Kate Sands Adams on May 7th, 2010
Earlier this week, I had a chance to speak by phone with International Rescue Committee emergency protection coordinator Catherine Jones in Port-au-Prince. Cat described what the IRC is doing to protect Haitian quake survivors as hurricane season approaches. more »
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IRC "detectives" finding families in Haiti
Posted by Kate Sands Adams on April 30th, 2010
IRC caseworker Barbara Morreau speaks about reuniting 2-year-old Geralda with her aunt Carole, who thought the little girl had died in January's devastating earthquake in Haiti. more »
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Haiti: Baby Jenny and family, together again
Posted by Kate Sands Adams on April 6th, 2010
It's just extraordinary that a two month old infant with serious injuries could survive three days under the rubble, that she would be found and evacuated to the U.S. for medical care, that her parents, informed that she was dead, would keep searching and eventually locate her more »
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Baby Jenny reunited with parents after Haitian quake
Posted by Kate Sands Adams on April 5th, 2010
The IRC's Melissa Winkler, tweets about the reunion of Baby Jenny and her parents, who arrived from Haiti today. The IRC will aid the family in Miami. more »
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An urgent Haiti "to do" list for world leaders
Posted by Kate Sands Adams on March 31st, 2010
Today, officials from governments around the globe are meeting in New York to discuss how best to help Haiti. IRC president George Rupp and seven other aid agency leaders have set out half a dozen action points for this meeting they say could save lives and provide opportunities for millions of Haitians now and for years to come. more »
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Tracing Haiti's missing kids [Video]
Posted by The.IRC on March 29th, 2010
The IRC is working to reunite children separated from their families in the aftermath of Haiti's earthquake. The IRC’s Rebecca Chandler spoke with CNN for a story about the difficult tracing process. more »
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Haiti: Sexual assaults "a serious problem"
Posted by Kate Sands Adams on March 27th, 2010
"Violence against women and girls was a serious problem in Haiti pre-disaster," says Heidi Lehmann, director of the IRC's Gender Based Violence Technical Unit. She spoke with VOA this week for a story about security enhancements prompted by an increase in sexual assaults in Haitian camps. more »
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Haiti: A better life for women
Posted by melissa.winkler on March 23rd, 2010
Minouche lost her home and husband in January's devastating earthquake in Haiti. I met her last week in Bel Air, a vast and congested shantytown of makeshift tents and shacks now home to nearly 4,000 people, including Minouche and her six children. more »
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