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the business

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16 May 2010 In many previous contributions I have talked about the amazing resilience of Haitian business, however small scale it is. Here I have collected a number of examples, of typically Haitian business, and of the type of business that has sprung up since the earthquake. Some of it, to be sure, is really sad: people [...]
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the band

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14 May 2010 I have told you about distributions, and how complex they often are, and how we often need military protection to ensure that they are being conducted in an orderly manner. Not anymore. I am not sure who was the genius behind the idea, but it must have been one of our Haitian [...]
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the decongestion

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10 May 2010 Yesterday I hinted at the idea to decongest Port-au-Prince. Out of the roughly 10 million population of Haiti, some 2.5 million were living in the capital, before the earthquake, or so say the official statistics. With 200,000 dead, 600,000 who left, and 1.3 million in camps, that doesn’t leave a lot of [...]
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the camps

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7 May 2010 I have written about the shelter situation before, soon after I arrived, because it was one of the most visible results of the earthquake. It still is, and it is incredibly complex. I already addressed the issue of IDPs in school yards, but all in all there are estimated to be some [...]
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the schools (photos)

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2 May 2010 Last time I wrote about schools I promised to get some better photos, and I had the opportunity to do exactly that when I accompanied a BBC Panorama crew, earlier this week. Panorama is making a documentary about vulnerable children in Haiti, and they were interested in seeing what Save the Children [...]
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the evictions

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2 May 2010 Having adopted a subtitle for this blog earlier, “random contributions to the better understanding of Haiti in the aftermath of an earthquake” (or should I say: the earthquake), I should perhaps get back to business again, after some recent digressions. The most pressing issue here at the moment is forced evictions. There [...]
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the schools

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20 April 2010 All the time there was something missing in the streets of Port-au-Prince, but I didn’t know what. Now I remember. The schools have opened for the first time since the earthquake, and in the mornings the streets are filled, once again, with children, in colourful school uniforms, carrying their books in backpacks [...]
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the criminals

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18 April 2010 Much has been made of the fact that the main prison in Port-au-Prince collapsed after the earthquake, which allowed more than 4500 prisoners to escape. My first reaction at the time was that there were in fact far more criminals outside the prisons in Haiti than that there were inside, but I [...]
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the trip (2)

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7 April 2010 The road from Leogane to Jacmel is badly damaged in several places. Now was this road never very good, as it runs through the hills and is subject to frequent landslides, but after the earthquake large cracks have opened in the tarmac. Canadian army engineers that have surveyed the road fear that, [...]
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the rubble

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26 March 2010 One of the things that still reminds everybody daily of the disaster is the large amount of rubble all over town, from collapsed buildings and houses. One element of the strategy to get people out of the camps is to clear their plot from rubble, and put a transitional shelter up (people [...]
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