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July 2010 Archives Hundreds of displaced families live perilously in a single file of flimsy shanties planted along the median strip of a heavily congested coastal road here called the Route des Rails. Hundreds of families live on the median strip of a road in the Port-au-Prince area.
 Kesia Damas complains every day about losing her favorite teacher. Mr. B introduced her to drama, taught her art and inspired her to dream of a film career far more glamorous than this dusty village. Backstage, Kesia Damas, 17, watched the performance of a play she wrote in Anse à Galets. A teacher who inspired her fled Haiti.
 Six months on, football star inspires children UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Lionel 'Leo' Messi visits with young people in Haiti to help draw attention to the situation of children six months after the 12 January earthquake there.  Fox 8's Todd Meany shows how your donations to 'Operation: Haiti Relief' are making a world of difference...
 Julie, her face a grimace of anguish, waits with her five children for a
ride to their next shelter, to where more than 1,000 homeless Haitians
have been ordered to go as hurricane season ramps up. Pictured: July 24 2010 photo shows a view of Camp Corail, located about 20 miles (32km) from Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Refugees living in unsanitary conditions alongside the roads, are packing up their belongings and moving to this site set up by the UN.  Israel's Cabinet agreed to send a group of police officers to Haiti to maintain public order.The 14 officers will assist the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti, which is working to uphold order and stabilize the area following January's earthquake. The quake killed more than 100,000, left hundreds of thousands injured and damaged the homes of some 3 million people.  July 24 2010 photo shows a view of Camp Corail, located about 20 miles (32km) from Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Refugees living in unsanitary conditions alongside the roads, are packing up their belongings and moving to this site set up by the UN. The rains and winds expected to Haiti could exacerbate the already precarious situation of displaced persons camps.
 "Haitian Orphans Have Little but One Another" (front page, July 6) was a profoundly troubling article that revealed one of the critical problems plaguing the international response to the Haitian earthquake.
 Hip-hop star Wyclef Jean is set to announce his candidacy for president of Haiti, according to a report in an Ottawa-Gatineau newspaper. Citing "a source close to the government" in Port-au-Prince, Le Droit reported that Mr. Jean is only waiting for paperwork to be finalized by next week's deadline.
 WQAD ABC 8 Quad Cities • Jul. 16, 2010. 08:52 PM EST
 Dad is a US citizen, daughter stuck in Haiti.
 The sun was beating down on the rocky cactus plain when men with machetes came for Menmen Villase, nine months pregnant, shoved her onto her bulging stomach and sliced up the plastic tarp that sheltered her and her four children.
 Six months after a devastating earthquake flattened Haiti's capital city, little has changed for Ernst Leo and his 7-year-old daughter, Therissa.
 A summer storm ripped through tents and sent solar-powered streetlights crashing down at the government's primary relocation camp for people left homeless by the January earthquake.Pictured: A boy walks in front of a structure that collapsed due to heavy rain at the Corail refugee camp, on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince, Monday, July 12, 2010. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)  Six months have passed since a 7.0 magnitude earthquake killed thousands of people in Haiti. Yet, despite everything that was lost, the country's people have not lost hope.
Federal prosecutors say an arrest warrant has been issued in New York for a man accused of sexually abusing boys in Haiti after a judge dismissed charges against him in Connecticut.
 Pilgrims, partiers and profit-seekers flocked to a sacred Haitian waterfall Friday where Voodoo and Christian faithful prayed for a better life after six grueling months of post-earthquake trouble.
 "The kids are doing well," said Sister Linda Yankoski, president of Holy Family Institute. "We feel like they're being fortified for the next step. They're living in a very nurturing environment." The next step, however, remains unscheduled and uncertain, according to Yankoski, who said the U.S. Office of Refugee Resettlement and the Haitian government will determine whether the children will be adopted in the United States or returned to Haiti. "I understand that communication in Haiti is still very challenging," she said.  Six months after the earthquake, Haiti is filled with donated food from all over the world. But in some cases, kids are going without. That's because, while it's easy to donate food, there often aren't proper distribution mechanisms to deliver it to the people who need it.
 The venerable William Jefferson Clinton talks about what it will take to rebuild Haiti in the new issue of Esquire magazine, which hits newsstands Sunday. The 42nd President is the central character in an article on what's being done to help Haiti six months after the earthquake struck Port-au-Prince.
 Three months after donors at a U.S.-sponsored conference pledged more than $5.3 billion to rebuild Haiti, just a small fraction of the money has been disbursed and a special reconstruction commission has barely started to function, according to U.N. and aid officials.
More than five months after the earthquake that killed her single mother, Daphne Joseph, 14, lost her bearings a second time when she was forced to leave the makeshift orphanage where she had felt at home.
 Editor's note: Wyclef Jean is a Grammy-winning musician and record producer. He started the Yéle Haiti foundation in 2005 to build global awareness of Haiti while helping to transform the country.
 She still has the same broken front teeth and those innocently-wide eyes. Her home is still a filthy orphanage on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince, where you won't find a single toy and where the children sleep, up to eight to a room, on rusty bunk beds. But Wideleine Fils Amie no longer counts a red tartan dress as her only worldly possession: a couple of months ago, she also acquired a yellow school uniform.
 The Angel Foundation is based here in San Antonio and has been helping orphans since Hurricane Katrina. Sixty-five medical professionals are currently involved in the program to assist orphans in Haiti.
 Cheryl Mills, the State Department official overseeing reconstruction in
Haiti following January's earthquake says finding housing for the 1.6
million people still in relief camps remains one of the biggest hurdles
to progress.
 Six months after Haiti's devastating earthquake, hundreds of thousands of people remain homeless, living in refugee camps in the capital Port-au-Prince.
As the sun rose on another day Port au Prince it fills in the shadows
hidden by night, revealing tent cities - evidence of Mother Nature's
fury some six months ago. Rubble was still piled high on the streets,
with people living amongst it. A man bathed on a sidewalk. There was no
privacy and no modern conveniences there.
 The United States
pledged Monday to stay committed to rebuilding Haiti six months after its devastating
earthquake, despite inaction by Congress on approving longer-term aid.
 The sun was beating down on the rocky cactus plain when men with machetes
came for Menmen Villase, nine months pregnant, shoved her onto her
bulging stomach and sliced up the plastic tarp that sheltered her and
her four children.
 Six months on, the government has yet to secure adequate shelter for many of the 2.1 million people made homeless by the Haiti earthquake. Some landowners are now trying to evict the refugee camps. Earthquake-displaced people wait in line to receive supplies at the Canahan 2 camp, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, June 30. Some landowners are trying to evict displaced people from Haiti earthquake refugee camps.  Six months after the earthquake, life in Haiti's 1,300 camps is crowded, unsanitary and increasingly dangerous. Sue Montgomery goes back to Port-au-Prince and finds electricity, water and schools, but little real shelter in the makeshift settlements. And for most people, proper housing is years away. A lineup for papers needed to get food rations forms at a new camp on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince. The camp has no shade and is a bus ride away from schools and markets.  When I first talked to Suy Bazelais in January, he was tucked in a hospital bed at Northwestern Memorial Hospital after a long and harrowing trip from earthquake-wracked Haiti. Dawn Turner Trice  It was April when, in passing, I asked the head of a nonprofit that's doing a lot of work in Haiti how things were going there. The look on his face said everything. Tens of thousands of children lost a parent in the earthquake that struck Haiti on Jan. 12. Among them: Dieu Fatane, age 6, above, photographed in her aunt's house in Port au Prince. An army of aid workers is working to help find a permanent home for her.  Preval was seen off at the Jose Marti International Airport by the vice president of the Cuban Council of State, Esteban Lazo, and by Deputy Foreign Minister Rogelio Sierra.
 American actress Angelina Jolie's top priority is to protect the orphaned children in Haiti, it has been revealed. Jolie returned to the SOS Village in Santo, Haiti, outside of Port-au-Prince to evaluate the progress made since she last visited the village more than six months ago. A 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck Haiti in January 2010.  President Rene Preval on Wednesday rejected U.S. Senate proposals for upcoming elections in Haiti and said one of them could even sow "anarchy" in the earthquake-shattered Caribbean country.
 At garbage dump on the northern outskirts of Port-au-Prince, gaunt and
weary-looking Haitians formed two lines to wait in the searing sun June
20 for Buckets of Hope to be unloaded from a truck near Eglise Baptiste
Canaan. The church, named for the Promised Land, ironically is
planted at the garbage dump where a makeshift city of displaced Haitians
has sprung up after the Jan. 12 earthquake.
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