Doing Good
By Marisa Clymer Shank, MCC Nicaragua
I’ve read several articles this past week on “missions” and “development work”. Each one has made me think about how I define what I’m doing in Nicaragua and how others mi...
Three Years After the Earthquake: A Golden Opportunity for Haiti?
By Kristen and Wawa Chege, Policy Analyst and Advocacy Coordinators, MCC Haiti
Saturday, January 12th, marked three years since the 2010 Haiti Earthquake that caused horrendous destruction, including an estimat...
Hurricane Sandy and Haiti’s Displaced People
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Linda Bertsche is the Connecting Peoples Co-Coordinator for MCC Haiti. This blog was originally published in http://undertentshaiti.com/
Hurricane Sandy moved in and stayed. Waiting it ou...
The UN Mission in Haiti: Is MINUSTAH worth the cost?
Wawa and Kristen Chege, Advocacy Coordinators, MCC Haiti write about the October 15th mandate renewal of the UN Mission in Haiti.
In 2004, the United Nations passed a resolution authorizing the presence of the...
MCC Haiti Plants 5000 trees for National Tree Day
By Joshua Steckley, an MCC service worker in Haiti
Mennonite Central Committee supports 22 local tree nurseries around Desarmes, a small town in the Artibonite Valley in Haiti. Each year, these nurseries produ...
Haiti: United Nations Peace-keepers Held Accountable for Abuses
By Kristen and Wawa Chege, Advocacy Coordinators, MCC Haiti
The current case of UN peacekeeping soldiers, charged with the sexual assault of a young Haitian, raises issues of accountability and effectiveness i...
Home Part 2: Constructing “home” in Haiti
Half a million internally displaced Haitians still live in camps two years after the earthquake. Photo by A. Wiebe
January 12, 2012 was the second anniversary of the earthquake in Hait...
From Displacement Camps to Community in Haiti – Part 1 Policy Solutions
Haitians actively claim the right to housing. Photo by Ben Depp
January 12, 2012 will be the second anniversary of the earthquake in Haiti. In this post, Alexis Erkert and Beverly Bell of Other Worlds, descri...
Responding When We Disagree: A Case from Haiti
Alexis Eckert was the MCC Advocacy Coordinator in Haiti from 2008 to July, 2011, and now works for Other Worlds, Haiti. In this blog she explores how the way we communicate is as important as the content we ...
Conversations with Haitians
Haiti appears in the world news whenever it experiences a new disaster: a political coup, an earthquake, a cholera epidemic, the return of a former dictator, or a questionable election. However, during convers...