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  1. Photo: Christian Aid

    Haiti - Live Below the Line

    03 May 2012 13:23 BST | Comments (0)

    Christian Aid | Aid Worker Diaries

    Benite Joseph is one of many people in Haiti who lives below the poverty line and whose family is unable to eat every day.

  2. Building a Better and Safer Haiti for Women and Children

    18 January 2012 18:11 GMT | Comments (0)

    Joan Timoney, Director of Advocacy and External Relations, Women's Refugee Commission | AlertNet News Blog

    Two years after disaster struck in Haiti, it is hard to say that anything has gotten better for the Haitian women and girls ...

  3. Two years on: Life for older Haitians is still hard

    12 January 2012 11:35 GMT | Comments (0)

    Jane Scobie/ HelpAge International | Aid Worker Diaries

    Haiti's future lies in the people themselves who are proud and ready to rebuild their country. Older Haitians are keen to ...

  4. Swoan Parker / Reuters

    Haiti two years on: Dealing with realities

    11 January 2012 15:30 GMT | Comments (0)

    CAFOD / Sarah Marsh | Latin America and Caribbean Views

    It’s not many countries in the world that have been hit as badly as Haiti in the past two years. The country has had multiple...

  5. PHOTOBLOG: Portraits from Haiti

    11 January 2012 14:43 GMT | Comments (0)

    Melissa Phillips |

    There was a buzz to the city I’d never read about – a complicated palette of colour and circumstance

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