French II Culture Project By Jean-Luc

 “Their Eyes Were Watching God”  Henri Christophe – President of Haiti  “The Kingdom of This World”  Langton Hughes who translated the works of Jacques Roumain  Katherine Dunham, famous Dancer and Choreographer  The Louisiana Purchase

 Measured 7.0 in Magnitude  The Earthquake was not a natural disaster but a disaster of Engineering. Death and injury was due to building collapse.  Early after the quake, there were stop gaps symbolic of Haiti’s centralized Government.

After the earthquake, January 2010

A youth walks through the earthquake damaged Cathedral in Port-a Prince on January 7, 2012.

People walk in front of the collapsed National Palace in Port-au-Prince, January 11, 2012.

A man walks by a tent city near Port-au-Prince, Haiti, January 10, 2012.

A demonstrator carrying a Haitian Flag, walks through the Champs de Mars Camp across the street from the collapsed National Palace during a protest to demand new housing, Wednesday, January 11, 2012.

School children walk past a makeshift tents at a temporary camp at Champ de Mars in Port-au-Prince, Wednesday, January 11, 2012.

A Voodoo Practitioner works under a building that was damaged by the 2010 earthquake in downtown Port-au-Prince, January 8, 2012.

Haiti President, Michel Martelly does a dance after announcing that, with the help of Canada’s Government, nearly 20,000 people camped across the street from the National Palace will be relocated to homes north of Port-au-Prince, January 11, 2012

 316,000 deaths, 300,000 injured, 1,000,000 made homeless.  $2.6 billion given for the Haitian Earthquake, $360 million in unspent private aid funding remain.  500,000 still under tarps and tents  Cholera outbreak started by the UN  Sex scandal

 Food, water, gasoline, medical supplies, sanitation and salaries basically the extent of services.  $12 billion coming from all donor nations.  No response by co-chair overseeing Haiti’s reconstruction for requests of financial specifics.

 Failed ties between humanitarian organizations and the Haitian Government.  Permanent solutions that improves people lives and livelihoods needed.  Lack of reconstruction and decentralization.  Haiti is energy poor, i.e. Kerosene and charcoal are main energy sources.

Farmer, Paul (2011) “ Haiti After the Earthquake ”. New York, NY: Public Affairs. Aronin, Miriam (2011) “ Earthquake in Haiti ” North Mankato, MN: Bearport Publishing Co. Curnutte, Mark (2011) “A Promise in Haiti”. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press. Dubois, Laurent (2012) “Haiti: The Aftershocks of Hstory ” Henry Holt and Company, LLC.