The desperate quest to find loved ones started just minutes after the earthquake, as cell phones rang unanswered from beneath the rubble of Haiti's best hotel.
Recently in Haiti Aid Category Patience grows thin as recovery continues to crawl in Haiti--now almost eight months since the earthquake. But the pace may not be due to lack of funds, but rather broken promises. Cap Haitien is already an over-populated city, with thousands of people seeking refugee from Port-au-Prince.  Members of the Ivy Tech community came out Saturday morning to show support for an Ivy Tech international student.It was the Hands Helping Haiti 5K, organized by the community college's Latino Student Union. Proceeds from the event went toward helping Jean Kedler Abelard. He's a native of Haiti was a student at Ivy Tech when the earthquake hit in January.  The Leap Foundation of Dallas treated around 1,000 patients during its
medical mission in Haiti, but there was one earthquake victim they could
not help in Port Au Prince.The challenge was getting the Mariline Jean to Baylor Hospital for some life-saving medical care. No one thought it would happen due to visa issues alone but it seems healing was in a higher power's hands.  James Cameron
already planted one million trees in Brazil last April. But the
director has said Earth needs at least a billion more trees -- not a
million, and he's enlisting 15 more countries to follow his lead,
including the U.S. That's not all he's reprising. His film made more
than a billion bucks, and now Avatar returns to theaters on August 27 in 3D for a limited time with nine more minutes of footage from Pandora. So where is Avatar's Home Tree Initiative sprouting up next?
 Wyclef
Jean will be gone until November, if not longer. The hip-hop star
officially announced in Port-au-Prince on Thursday that he's running for
president of Haiti. The election is scheduled for Nov. 28.
 Less than a week after the wedding of his only daughter, former U.S. President Bill Clinton broke ground on a new shelter in Haiti following his Clinton Foundation's $1 million pledge to improve hurricane safety.
 As Alourds Grandoit hitches her chair across the yard, following the spots of shade, her thoughts linger mostly on the dead: 10 relatives lost in the Jan. 12 earthquake. But sometimes they turn to a plastic barrel that is wending its way toward her, from her cousin's two-family house in Queens to a ship moving down the Atlantic coast to -- someday soon -- a truck rumbling up the road to her brother's cinderblock bungalow, where she moved when the cataclysm wrecked her home.Pictured: Alourds Grandoit, 70, lost 10 relatives, including her husband, in the Jan. 12 quake in Haiti. No relief worker has visited her, but money and moral support have flowed from New York  When the rubble is cleared away, the roads repaved and the buildings rebuilt, will the people of Haiti be back on their feet? Haiti Today: Rebuilding Haiti will not be easy, nor will it happen quickly, but some urban planners have suggested that there may be a silver lining in the city's destruction. As with so many places that have been gutted by natural disasters, the earthquake in Haiti may give the nation the opportunity to construct a new capital that is stronger, healthier and more resilient. Tomorrow's Port-au-Prince could have the soul of the past and the structure of the future.  The U.S. Department of the Treasury today announced that the United States, the International Financial Institutions (IFIs), and other donors have together reached the goal of eliminating the total debt stock that Haiti owed to the IFIs at the time of the January earthquake. Today's announcement comes just six months after Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner stated his intention to work closely with partners around the world to relieve Haiti's debt. This achievement is among the fastest complete IFI debt reductions in history.
 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.
 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.
 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.
 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.  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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