Twice a year, a team from Asheville-based Mission Manna travels to Haiti to provide healthcare to children living in and around the town of Montrouis.
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Container housing: Asheville group applies the power of tens to Haiti’s housing needs
An Asheville non-profit group has embarked on a bold housing solution for earthquake-ravaged Haiti: homes from shipping containers, readily available and unused in many developing countries.
One year after: Celebrating Asheville’s Haiti connection
Asheville’s connection to Haiti is built on the ongoing passions of locals. Here’s a look at what a few of those individuals are up to.
Haiti Resurrection Dance Theater stages two benefit shows this weekend
One Haitian orphanage has harnessed its passion and hit the road: With raging drum beats, colorful cultural costumes, theatrical choreography and leaping gymnastic feats, this weekend’s Orange Peel and YMI performances are sure to leave you energized, hopeful and even inspired, no matter what your connection with Haiti.
Ashevilleans in Haiti: Kurt Mann and AMURTEL members
A report from two sets of Ashevilleans helping in Haiti, one fighting the cholera epidemic, the other bringing appropriate technologies to an orphanage.
Mission MANNA: Local doctors share story of their work in Haiti
In our Dec. 8 issue, UNCA student Lorin Mallorie shared the story of local doctors and volunteers helping Haiti in its latest health crisis. Click through to view a video interview with some of those volunteers, including Asheville’s own Dr. Derek Dephouse.
Selfless acts
Skin covered with blistering scabs, the little girl stares at the “blanc” doctor examining her wounds. An older boy, another orphan, gently unbuttons the strap on her pink dress and lifts her arm, revealing a yellow, golf-ball-sized abscess protruding from black skin. She starts to cry. To learn more about Mission MANNA and how you […]
Lorin Mallorie in Haiti: Widespread fear, anger over election results
Protests broke out just hours into voting, with accusations of ballot tampering by the current government and their favored candidate, Jude Celestine and his party — and I found myself once again fleeing Petionville, just ahead of angry protestors …
Protests and turmoil erupt in Haiti — Twitter-based coverage from Lorin Mallorie
Asheville-based journalist Lorin Mallorie posted a few Twitter observations from Haiti regarding the breakdown of order on Nov. 18.
Lorin Mallorie in Haiti: Cholera riots in the north, panic in Commune Anse Rouge
Cholera has reached Commune Anse Rouge. “Five more people have died since I last wrote you,” Amber Munger e-mailed me on Monday, Nov. 15. … Few understand cholera, and so anyone who gets it has an automatic death sentence, even though it could be simply treated with hydration formula, she said.
Lorin Mallorie in Haiti: Hurricane Tomas, voodoo and cholera
All eyes gaze up at the sky, nervously, as the gray creeps across like a demon. Hurricane Tomas comes early. For those who can leave, it is a mass exodus up the mountain: Traffic, fear and uncertainty.
Love in the Time of Cholera: Amber Munger’s call for proactive help
“This cholera epidemic highlights the importance of sanitation,” Munger said. Residents in La Sous are asking for composting toilets, a sustainable solution to the situations that cause epidemics like cholera.
Lorin Mallorie in Haiti: There’s nothing more hopeful than the smile of a child
With the depravity and desperation of Port-au-Prince’s homeless increasing every day, there is nothing more hopeful than the smile of a happy Haitian child in a safe and loving environment.
Haiti: from volunteer health-care providers’ points of view
Coverage (via Twitter) of tonight’s (Sept. 7) panel presentation on Haiti as seen by medical volunteers from Asheville’s Mission Manna and other relief groups.
Lorin Mallorie in Haiti: If you are Haitian, Wyclef Jean, prove it now!
When I heard the whispers of a Wyclef Jean presidential bid, I simply dismissed them. It seemed like an impossible concept, water-cooler talk — something fun to debate: Could he, would he run, this 37-year-old Haitian musician, and of late, politician, who moved to the U.S. with his family when he was 9 years old. After the announcement was official, Deva Krishna, the unemployed musician in the video spoke to me of his concerns, worries of corruption in Wyclef’s organization…
Lorin Mallorie in Haiti: From voodoo priests to Christians, thousands celebrate, mourn life at Sodo
Descending into the waterfall’s basin, the mass of bodies becomes its own living, breathing entity. Moving together in one vibration, in exuberant celebration of all life’s glories and defeats, the drums, horns and songs rise above the waterfall’s massive force.
So starts Asheville journalist Lorin Mallorie’s report from last week’s Sodo celebration.
Lorin Mallorie in Haiti: A visit (and a party) at the Dynamic English Club
Just above the capital, in Kenscoff, Haiti, life has a different tempo, a slower vibe. This is country life: the “Real Haiti” as they say. Quiet, slow: Cool and relaxed. And, like the rest of Haiti outside Port-au-Prince, it seems there are no jobs at all. We went to the Dynamic English Club, and threw a party. And what a party it was.
Asheville-Haiti connection: “You cannot share joy, if you have none inside yourself”
“There are places I go that I cannot take you. Where the air is thick with poverty, misery and disease. Where the rivers run deep with garbage and despair. Where there is no work, no help and no future — but this is not one of those places,” writes Asheville-based Lorin Mallorie, who has, once again, gone to Haiti.
The Haiti-Asheville connection continues: A panel discussion (updated with photos)
Haiti’s recovery from the devastating January earthquake is far from complete. And the Asheville connection with recovery efforts remains strong. Mountain Xpress publisher Jeff Fobes attended a UN Association panel discussion on Tuesday, June 22: Haiti: Past, present and future. Here are Fobes’ collected messages (Tweets) from the session.