Articles by Judith Scherr
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Haiti: Finding Butterflies among the Rubble
Judith Scherr – IPS News,
11 Oct 2010
Michele Garlin had massive headaches after Haiti’s 7.0 earthquake killed some 230,000 people and left 1.3 million others, like herself, homeless. “I also had insomnia and, even if there was no aftershock, I thought my bed was shaking all the time,” Garlin said, speaking in the shade of an open-air community tent, in the Bon Repos camp for displaced people she now calls home. Along with some 2,000 others in four different camps, Garlin has found relief in a mental health programme called Soulaje Lespri Moun or Relief for the Spirit.
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Judith Scherr – InterPress Service-IPS,
4 Oct 2010
“We are not going to the election in tents. We want housing before elections.” These words were chanted in Creole and held high on placards during a recent demonstration at Haiti’s crumpled National Palace, where protesters decried “inhumane” conditions in the camps for displaced people and condemned the government and NGOs which they said have abandoned them. More than one million people displaced by the Jan. 12 earthquake still live in these camps.
→ read full articleTanks Not Tractors
Judith Scherr,
30 Sep 2008
Blue Helmets in Haiti Antonine Bienaimé was doing what she does every day, selling single candies, cigarettes, cookies and crackers from trays she sets up in front of her home that doubles as a shop. The mother of eight was working into the evening of August 7, trying to earn enough goudes to feed her […]
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