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.
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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…
UNCA alumna Amber Munger founds nonprofit Article 29 for Haiti
UNCA alumna and Oregon Law School graduate Amber Munger captivated Asheville after the Jan. 12 earthquake, when her plea-for-help ran on the front page of the Asheville Citizen-Times. Now, Munger has founded her own nonprofit, the Article 29 Organization, working with Haitian peasantry in Commune Anse Rouge, five hours north of Haiti’s capital.
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.
The other Haiti: Local Haiti relief worker shares images of beauty
Aaron Funk hosts a fundraiser on Saturday, May 29, to showcase the untold story of Haiti through his photos.
Helping Haiti: ongoing coverage, links, resources — with Twitter news feed
Asheville-based Mission Manna was in Haiti Oct. 16-23, 2010. Lorin Mallorie is currently in Haiti (today’s date: Nov. 18, 2010).
Surviving Port-au-Prince
Editor's note: Shortly before Christmas, UNCA senior Lorin Mallorie traveled to Haiti at the invitation of UNCA alumna Amber Munger, who gave a lecture on her work there last fall (see "Gratitude, Hugs and Tears," March 3 Xpress). Wanting to dig deeper, Mallorie returned to Haiti last month, using the contacts she'd made during her […]
Help Haiti Heal: Benefit concert in Black Mountain tonight offers live video/audio sreaming
Benefit concert tonight at the White Horse in Black Mountain with Nikki Talley, Dave Turner, Sirius B, Laura Blackley, Kim Hughes, Every Mothers Dream, and WSNB (We Sing Nasty Blues). $12 admission; starts at 7 p.m. If you can’t make it to the show, check out the live video/audio stream.
Asheville nurse collecting tarps, tents for Haiti earthquake victims
The Haiti earthquake in January killed about 200,000. It also left an estimated 1.2 million people homeless, and as the rainy season there approaches, their struggle to survive continues. An Asheville nurse wants to help and plans to launch a regional tarp and tent drive she’s calling Cover Haiti.
An Oscar benefit for Haiti
Against the backdrop of the ongoing suffering in Haiti, the Carolina Cinema plans an Oscar-themed celebration to provide aid
Dine Out for Haiti today
Pick your favorite eatery from the list of more than 20 that are participating. Then grab a table and nosh as usual: 10 percent of your bill will be donated to the Red Cross in support of ongoing relief efforts in Haiti.
Edgy Mama: Feed kids, boost local businesses, help Haiti
I’m going to offer you a deal. I’ll tell you about a bunch of inexpensive and kids-eat-free restaurant options locally, so you can save money while feeding your children. But you have to promise me that you’ll send any cash you save to Haitian relief programs.
Help Haiti Heal: 2-day benefit concert this weekend in Black Mtn (Watch live video stream here)
Help Haiti Heal Benefit, a two-day concert in Black Mountain, starts Saturday, Feb. 6 and continues on Sunday and will showcase a wide range of local talent. Xpress hopes to carry a live video feed of the concert for those who can’t attend.
Digital lifeline to Haiti
Tuesday, Jan. 12: just another day in Asheville until my cell phone rumbled to life with the news of the earthquake in Haiti. By hook or by taxi In the midst of all of the tweeting, we still had staff unaccounted for, five days post-quake — not at all encouraging. E-mails weren't being returned, phones […]
How Haiti has suffered so long and so deeply
As is most often the case, America again turns her attention to the people of Haiti because of profoundly tragic events. The massive earthquake … has devastated an entire community. Complete families have been lost outright. The whole infrastructure of the Haitian government, ordinarily fragile, has been decimated. Once more Haiti, one of our closest […]
Americans fiddle while Haiti falls
When the global-warming hoax is finally exposed, there will lay the roots: acid rain, and all its illegitimate junk-science children. But the most recent announcement, that the glaciers in the Himalayas are really not melting away nearly as fast as reported earlier, should remind those of us who are still not completely politically correct that […]
How AMURT trucks relief goods from Asheville to Haiti
A truck whisked away donated relief goods from Asheville last week. And another will do so again early next week. What happens to those goods? Here’s part of the story.
How can Ashevilleans help Haiti after its devastating earthquake?
Asheville-based MissionMANNA, which has been helping Haiti for years, offers ways of helping Haiti.