Caribbean Rain May Flood Haiti, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico (Bloomberg.com)
Sept. 24 (Bloomberg) -- A system of wind and rains that's threatening to become a tropical depression may cause flooding and mudslides in the northeastern Caribbean, including Haiti and the Dominican Republic, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.

NY-Haiti Samaritans: Keep up the good work! (FOX 5 New York)
New York's governor is thanking the hundreds of people who've donated supplies for Haiti relief following the devastating hurricanes. He says more supplies are still needed.

Haiti?s food crisis deepens after floods (AG Weekly)
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Four tropical storms have wiped out most of Haiti?s food crops and damaged irrigation systems and pumping stations, raising the specter of acute hunger for millions in the impoverished country.

NY-Haiti Samaritans: Keep up the good work! (WCAX-TV Vermont)
Associated Press - September 24, 2008 1:25 PM ET NEW YORK (AP) - New York's governor is thanking the hundreds of people who've donated supplies for Haiti relief following the devastating...

Successes in Haiti swept away by Ike (McClatchy Washington Bureau)
GONAIVES, HAITI ? After Hurricane Jeanne in 2004, Hearts and Hands for Haiti, a tiny Raleigh-based charity, paid for the materials to help residents of the tiny farming community of Sous Raille rebuild their homes.

USAID Announces Haiti Diaspora Investment Challenge (PR Newswire via Yahoo! News)
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Administrator and Director of U.S. Foreign Assistance Henrietta Fore has announced an initial $2 million for a Haitian Diaspora Investment Challenge Facility, which will fund plans for sustainable business activities in Haiti. The announcement was made Wednesday during a meeting with members of the Haitian community.

Haiti, U.N. overwhelmed by disaster: envoy (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Haiti's government and the U.N. mission to the impoverished Caribbean nation are overwhelmed by the scale of the disaster left by four recent storms, the U.N.'s special envoy to Haiti said on Thursday.

Wyclef Jean Describes Haiti's Devastation (NPR)
Musician and singer Wyclef Jean returned to his native Haiti to see first hand the damage that three hurricanes have done to the country in less than a month. Wyclef describes the devastation he saw, his philanthropic foundation and how the international community can help address Haiti's growing need.

Inhumane Child Labor Conditions Persist In Haiti (NPR)
Some of the most vulnerable victims of the hurricane in Haiti are known as "Restavecs," children given away by their own families to perform domestic labor in exchange for food and shelter. Jean-Robert Cadet, an author and former child laborer, describes his own childhood experience and his work with Haitian "restavecs".

Haiti overwhelmed by disaster (Perth Now)
HHAITI'S Government and the UN mission to the impoverished Caribbean nation are overwhelmed by the scale of the disaster left by four recent storms, the UN's special envoy to Haiti said overnight.

Haiti, UN overwhelmed by disaster-envoy (AlertNet)
Source: Reuters By Joseph Guyler Delva PORT-AU-PRINCE, Sept 18 (Reuters) - Haiti's government and the U.N. mission to the impoverished Caribbean nation are overwhelmed by the scale of the disaster left by four ...

Reforming Haiti’s Security Sector (AlertNet)
Source: International Crisis Group Operations led by the UN peacekeeping mission (MINUSTAH) largely disbanded armed gangs in the slums of Haiti?s cities, but progress has been undermined by persisting crime, political instability and natural disasters.

Miami sends storm relief to Haiti (Miami Herald)
City of Miami Commissioner Michelle Spence-Jones will lead a 20-member delegation to Haiti Friday to deliver 50,000 pounds of hurricane relief to storm-ravaged victims in the impoverished Caribbean nation.

Haiti relief mission in need of food, water (7 News Miami)
MIAMI -- While South Floridians have spent the past few weeks pouring aide into Haiti following a string of devastating hurricane strikes to the Caribbean nation, more is still needed.

Leawood Charity Working to Help Haiti Hurricane Victims (FOX 4 News Kansas City)
America's attention hs been focused on the hurricane damage in Texas. But, Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, has been hit by two hurricanes. A metro man, Brad Gautney, has just returned from seeing the devastation and despair there.

Rockland-based efforts to aid Haiti expand (The Journal News)
SPRING VALLEY -The task force that has organized to aid victims of recent devastating tropical storms and hurricanes in Haiti is expanding its efforts and scope, with numerous organizations in Rockland, New York City and New Jersey coming forward to help

Matt Damon, Wyclef Jean distribute food to hungry storm victims in Haiti (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
CABARET, Haiti - Matt Damon stayed calm and joked around while he helped with a chaotic food distribution Saturday in western Haiti, where hundreds of people remain homeless and hungry.

'One million homeless' in Haiti (BBC News)
As many as one million people may be homeless in hurricane-battered Haiti, the country's prime minister says.

Matt Damon, former NB premier Frank McKenna in Haiti to boost relief efforts (The Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada News)
BELLANGER, Haiti - A group of high profile visitors, including actor Matt Damon, is in Haiti this weekend to highlight the need for humanitarian aid after a series of tropical storms.

Haiti takes stock after storms leave a million homeless (Independent)
As rolling coverage of Hurricane Ike's arrival in Texas dominated news networks yesterday, its devastating impact on the desperately impoverished Caribbean nation of Haiti was still emerging.

Cleaning supplies collected for Haiti (WPTV West Palm Beach)
Residents dropped off cleaning supplies for Haiti at a local church.

Hurricane Ike destroys home in Haiti (WAOW Wausau)
Before hitting Texas, Ike killed 66 people in Haiti. While he's not there physically, one NTC student describes how the hurricane destroyed his family's home.

Help for Cuba and Haiti (Miami Herald)
The devastating string of tropical storms and hurricanes that rushed through the Caribbean in the last month ? Fay, Gustav, Hanna and Ike ? left hundreds dead and tens of thousands of people hurt and displaced in Haiti. The country?s crops appear to be destroyed. In Cuba, Gustav and Ike destroyed or damaged hundreds of thousands of homes.

Kendrick Meek blasts deportations to storm-hit Haiti (Miami Herald)
En route to Haiti to see storm devastation, Rep. Kendrick Meek assailed the White House Friday for continuing to deport Haitians in the U.S. to the storm-wracked island.

Kendrick Meek leads delegation to Haiti (Miami Herald)
U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek will lead a congressional delegation to Haiti Friday, traveling with the U.S. military to Gonaives and some of the hardest hit areas of the island nation.

"Hope for Haiti" Project (WCTV Tallahassee)
A Tallahassee ministry has set up a "Relief for Haiti" project, to provide aid to the country, after it was hit by Hurricane Ike and Tropical Storm Fay.

WHO launches 4.2 mln dollar appeal for Haiti hurricane victims (TODAYonline)
Haitians survey damages on September 10, 2008 in Cabaret, 35 kms north of Port-au-Prince. The World Health Organisation on Friday launched an appeal for 4.2 million dollars (3.0 million euros) to help victims of the hurricanes that have battered Haiti over the past month.

WFP sends 60,000 food rations to Haiti (People's Daily)
The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) sent 60,000 food rations to the hurricane victims in Haiti, WFP spokesman Elio Rujano told Xinhua Thursday. Rujano said that the WFP staff Wednesday loaded about 31 tons of food, machinery and first-aid kits on a plane. The aid materials were transported to Haiti under the cooperation of several humanitarian communities including Spanish Agency of ...

SOUTHCOM Sends Eight-Man Team To Haiti, Kearsarge Delivers 350 Metric Tons of Aid (PR Newswire via Yahoo! News)
An eight-man team from U.S. Southern Command, headquartered in Miami, will arrive in Haiti today to support ongoing U.S. relief efforts in the country.

In Haiti, hurricane leaves behind starvation, disease (Newsday)
GONAIVES, Haiti - In a cathedral surrounded by mud and floodwaters, the 34-year-old motorcycle taxi driver shivers on a pew, wrapped in a sheet and delirious from fever.

UNICEF Is Airlifting 11.5 Tons Of Emergency Supplies To Haiti To Help Victims Of Hurricanes (Medical News Today)
UNICEF is airlifting 11.5 tons of relief supplies to Haiti to help victims made homeless and displaced by the recent hurricanes. The first shipment of 8.5 tons arrived yesterday and three additional tons are expected to arrive in the coming days.

Across Haiti, a Scene of Devastation (Washington Post)
CABARET, Haiti, Sept. 9 -- Three times this month, the river rose toward Andre Jean Compae's cassava garden and three times, he watched it subside. So when his neighbors in this coastal Haitian town began running for safety as the latest rains came, Compae gathered his wife and seven children into...

Desperation grows as flooded Haiti city awaits aid (CNN.com)
Four major storms have raked the desperately poor country of Haiti in the past month, leaving at least 341 people dead.

Wyclef Jean Rallies for Hurricane Relief in Haiti (E! Online)
Wyclef Jean is trying to keep his homeland above water. The Haitian singer, who serves as a Goodwill Ambassador to the notoriously poor Caribbean nation, and his Yelé Haiti...

After Ike, Haiti needs 'flood of helicopters' (Contra Costa Times)
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti ? With Haiti's major bridges crumbled, roadways flooded and an estimated one million people homeless, humanitarian and government groups struggled Monday to push relief supplies into the country and throughout the storm-ravaged Caribbean.

Haiti hurricane death toll tops 100 (ABC via Yahoo!7 News)
More than 100 bodies have been found since Monday in Gonaives, the Haitian city hardest hit by Tropical Storm Hanna and Hurricane Ike, Vicky Delore-Ndjeuga, a spokesman for the UN Mission in Haiti said.

Humanitarian disaster unfolds in Haiti (Daily Telegraph)
HAITI'S third largest city is at the centre of a humanitarian disaster after being hit hard by four major storms in less than a month.

Haiti city sees more death from storms (MSNBC)
Cemetery workers trudge through the water, fetching bloated corpses from the muck in Haiti's second largest city. But the final death toll here will never be known.

Brazil offers aid to storm-struck Cuba, Haiti (AlertNet)
Source: Reuters BRASILIA, Sept 9 (Reuters) - Brazil offered humanitarian aid to Haiti and Cuba on Tuesday after hurricanes Gustav and Ike caused substantial damage to both nations. President Luiz Inacio Lula da ...

Missionary Flights to bring aid to Haiti (Fort Pierce Tribune)
Relief and other supplies will be flown to storm-ravaged Haiti on Thursday by Missionary Flights International as part of the organization's longstanding support of Christian organizations in the Caribbean, officials said Tuesday.

Hurricane Ike kills 60 in Haiti (UPI)
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Sept. 9 (UPI) -- At least 60 people were killed in Haiti when Hurricane Ike passed over the Caribbean nation, Haitian radio reported Tuesday

Hanna's death toll rises to 137 in Haiti (AP via Yahoo! News)
Haiti's government says the death toll from Tropical Storm Hanna has more than doubled to 137, with most of the deaths coming in the flooded port city of Gonaives.

Rescuers can't get aid to flooded, hungry Haiti town (CNN.com)
GONAIVES, Haiti (AP) -- The convoy rumbled out of the U.N. base toward a flooded, starving and seething city Thursday, carrying some of the first food aid since Tropical Storm Hanna drowned Gonaives in muddy water three days ago.