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Recently in Opinion Category Life after Haiti's earthquake has been especially difficult and dangerous for displaced women and girls. In addition to the ongoing crises of homelessness and cholera, a chronic emergency of sexual violence prevails in the settlements where hundreds of thousands still live, well over a year after the disaster.
 As America celebrates Thanksgiving today, Haiti will celebrate, well . . . not much. (Franklin Graham on a trip to Haiti to review the Samaritan's Purse relief efforts.) Having spent my adult life doing relief work in a hundred countries
I don't believe I have ever seen a people suffer so much in one year as
the nearly 10 million Haitians have since a 7.0 earthquake in January
ripped open what was already one of the poorest nations on the planet,
killing perhaps 300,000 in a matter of minutes.
 At a camp in downtown Port-au-Prince, a girl of about 5 or 6 years old was leaning against her father. The two of them were framed in the tarp doorway of their shelter. The sky was overcast, but there was no immediate sign of the impending storm. Haitians walk along a flooded road in Leogane, just south of Port-au-Prince, on Saturday.
 In reviewing William Easterly's book on the failures of development aid, The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Effort to Aid the Rest Have Done so Much Ill and So Little Good (2006), Nobel laureate Amartya Sen wrote in Foreign Affairs,
"The challenge is to respond to the plight of the hopelessly
impoverished without neglecting to insist that help come in useful and
productive forms."
 Counteracting our fleeting attention spans. The
hubbub has died down. Other tragedies have struck; our attentions have
been averted. A little over eight months ago, Haiti experienced one of
the worst natural disasters in history. Since then, Chile, Turkey, and now Pakistan
have faced their fair share of environmental turmoil. We watch
helplessly as nature devastates the homes and lives of thousands, and
then we turn our attention to the latest earthquake, then back to the
wars, celebrities, Apple products, and the ordinary everyday.  Music, not politics, made Wyclef Jean a household name in Haiti and a multimillion-record-selling international star who has always proclaimed his Haitian origins. That was before he announced that he would run for president of Haiti. The musician Wyclef Jean at a New York benefit in January for Haitian earthquake relief.  Dear Reader, My four-year-old daughter, Angelina, and my wife, Claudinette, are the angels of my life -- and I know this year has been especially trying for them, as my efforts for Haiti have taken so much more of my time since January, when the devastating earthquake nearly destroyed my home country.
 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.  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.
 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.  It's only been four months, but Haiti has already been forgotten by the news media. Unfortunately, the needs abound in that nation struck by a devastating earthquake in January, leaving thousands dead and millions homeless. Emergency relief has given way to redevelopment, which includes rebuilding schools.
 April 19, 2010 "...The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much." (James 5:16) Mariela is down to just one goat.
 Haiti has an ocean's worth of problems, but money shouldn't be one of them. The world's response to the Jan. 12 earthquake was swift, with more than 150 countries and organizations promising to send hundreds of millions of dollars for emergency relief and billions more for long-term rebuilding.
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