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Cell Phones Are Key to Relief in Post-Quake Haiti [VIDEO]
By not in system - AOL NewsTwo of Haiti's biggest cell phone companies are working with aid groups to help cash-strapped Haitians purchase goods using "mobile money." Donated funds are transferred to residents' cell phones and then traded in at local shops for food. ...
Innovative Water Filtration System Gives Haitians Hope [VIDEO]
By not in system - AOL NewsA Haitian businessman and a U.S. nonprofit have joined hands to bring clean water to thousands of Haitians by equipping them an innovative water filtration device. ...
Report: Rapists Prowl Haiti's Earthquake Camps
By Lauren Frayer - AOL NewsSuzie thought life couldn't get any worse after her husband, parents and brothers died in Haiti's earthquake one year ago. The family home was destroyed, and Suzie was forced to take her two sons to live in a makeshift shelter, crammed into disease-ridden quarters like more than a million other quake survivors. But the very place where Suzie sought safety was where she was brutally attacked -- raped by a band of armed men preying on survivors in mourning. In the middle of one night back in May, a gang of men barged into the shelter and blindfolded Suzie and a friend, then raped them in front ...
2010: The Year Sarah Palin Became Queen of All Media
By David Knowles - AOL NewsMove on over, Oprah. There's a new media queen in town. In a feat that may have seemed impossible at the conclusion of 2009, Sarah Palin became an even more visible national personality in 2010. After she and Republican presidential nominee John McCain lost the 2008 election by some 8 million votes to Barack Obama and Joe Biden, it may have seemed that Palin would simply fade out of the national spotlight and return to Alaska politics. And when Palin abruptly announced in July 2009 that she was quitting her job as Alaska's governor, little more than two years after being elected, many ...
Top Five Celebrity Activists: Lady Gaga and a Palin, Too
By Suzi Parker - Politics DailyStar power goes a long way. Celebrities can often shed light, or make a big impact, on a cause or an issue in ways that even the best public relations campaign simply cannot. During World War II, Hollywood stars promoted war bonds, rationing and Victory gardens. These days, they take to social media and television to get their points across on myriad issues affecting the world. Five celebrities who made a difference this year: Lady Gaga: The pop superstar dipped her toe into celebrity activism in 2009 when she appeared at the National Equality March in Washington. But in 2010, Lady ...
Rum, Restlessness and Resentment in Haiti
By Emily Troutman - AOL News
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Nov. 19) -- Against all odds, 27-year-old Moise is wearing a Boy Scouts of America shirt, troop No. 60. He's got it unbuttoned low enough to show off his tattoos. One of which translates to "Say nothing." Untucked, the shirt is just long enough to hide the handgun he has hidden in his waistband. Moise is drunk. When he's not in full swagger, he wobbles. On Thursday night, he's been drinking for roughly 12 hours, along with his crew, a ragtag group of small-time do-nothings and drug dealers. They spent the day battling U.N. troops in Champ de Mars plaza, releasing their ...
Haiti's Cholera Death Toll Passes 900
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News
(Nov. 15) -- More than 900 people have now died in Haiti's cholera outbreak, the government announced, confirming health workers' worst fears as the disease begins to sweep through the country's capital, crammed with earthquake survivors. Haiti's health ministry said Sunday that 917 people have died from cholera country-wide, and 14,642 people have been hospitalized, the BBC reported. That is up from 724 deaths and 11,125 hospitalizations reported a few days before, according to The New York Times. The fear is that those numbers could skyrocket now that the bacterial infection has ...
Cholera Confirmed in Haiti's Capital
By not in system - AOL NewsPORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Nov. 9) -- A cholera epidemic has spread into Haiti's capital, imperiling nearly 3 million people living in Port-au-Prince, nearly half of them in unsanitary tent camps for the homeless from the Jan. 12 earthquake. Health authorities told The Associated Press on Monday that tests confirmed a 3-year-old boy from a quake refugee tent camp who hadn't been out of the city had caught the disease. More than 100 other suspected cholera cases among city residents also were being tested. The outbreak has already killed at least 544 people in Haiti, Health Ministry Executive ...
Death Rate Slows After Cholera Kills 253 in Haiti
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News
(Oct. 25) -- A swift international medical response has helped to slow the number of Haitians dying in a cholera outbreak that's claimed more than 250 lives, but another 3,100 people are infected, and experts warn the disease could still spread. The outbreak began in central rural regions of Haiti, and the fear is that it could quickly sweep south through the capital of Port-au-Prince, where 1.3 million survivors of last January's earthquake live in tented camps without adequate access to clean water and medicine. Thony Belizaire, AFP / Getty Images Sick victims and families wait in line ...
Denis McDonough, Obama's New Deputy National Security Adviser: 5 Key Facts
By David Knowles - AOL News(Oct. 22) -- President Barack Obama announced today that he has appointed Denis McDonough as the next deputy national security adviser. McDonough will report to Tom Donilon, who takes over from outgoing the national security adviser, retired Gen. James Jones. Surge Desk has compiled the following facts about McDonough, whom Obama praised as possessing "an extraordinary work ethic." 1. He's a longtime Obama adviser Formerly a foreign policy adviser to Sen. Tom Daschle --as well as a legislative director for Sen. Ken Salazar -- McDonough first began working for Obama when the president was ...
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