Haitian

This relief operation was always going to be unusually slow and chaotic. But Haitians cannot afford for it to remain so.

All this voting gives Haitians the chance of a fresh start, but it has also diverted resources from other priorities.

Marie Sam Bastien, a mother of five, complains that relief workers throw food at Haitians as if they were dogs.

Nearly a year later, despite billions of dollars in international aid pouring into the country, the prospects for most Haitians look bleak.

Some Haitians were amazed Friday that an African-American CNN camerawoman did not speak Creole, the French-based native language in Haiti.

A substantial number of Haitians must be allowed to move to richer countries -- including ours.

Many Haitians, including lots displaced by January's earthquake, roamed around trying to find out where to vote.

Haitians were "encouraging people with new disabilities to dance in their wheelchairs, " she said.

That also happened this time. The difference was the difficulty of getting them into the hands of desperate Haitians.

But France and the United States have so far agreed only to no longer send Haitians back to Haiti.

Those numbers do not include Haitians believed to have died, helpless, in remote places.

The care that the poorest Haitians are now receiving is of a higher standard than anything normally available before the disaster.

Well, not every way we can -- for one of the best ways to help Haiti is to allow some Haitians to move abroad.

Hundreds of thousands of Haitians remain in the streets since the earthquake, many looking for shelter.

And then came Hurricane Tomas. Misery now overwhelms Haitians just as easily as the flood waters did.

The Obama administration is making it easier for Haitians in the US illegally to stay for up to 18 months, Reuters reported.

The United Nations has begun hiring up to 220, 000 Haitians to work on clearing-up and reconstruction.

In the photo at right, Haitians sit on a pew amid the wreckage a year earlier.

Remittances from Haitians living abroad have begun flowing here again after Western Union reopened some of its branches in the capital.

With electoral calculations once again paramount, the next year or so will try the patience of both Haitians and donors.

AWWA has received many calls and e-mails from members offering expertise to help Haitians address water-related issues.

And some older Haitians express nostalgia for a time they remember as more stable, orderly, and prosperous.

Haitians need a national identity card to vote. People have been crowding government offices to try to get one.

There are myriad bottlenecks and obstacles involved in getting help to the Haitians who need it, but lack of funds is not one of them.

Certainly most ordinary Haitians seemed pleased to see the Americans.

Shortly after the Haitian quake, Barack Obama promised Haitians that "you will not be forsaken, you will not be forgotten" .

Haitians living abroad send roughly $2 billion a year to the island.

But even the full $5. 5 billion, divided among 10m Haitians, amounts to less than $185 a year per person.

There were 20, 000 soldiers but they were surprisingly nervous about what reception the unarmed Haitians might have in store for them.

The international media shocked readers with reports of Haitians making cookies out of packed dirt.

We are now working with Samasource and Crowdflower to have the translation work serve as a source of income for Haitians inside Haiti.

A crowd of Haitians and rescuers cheered as he emerged, without visible injuries.

Against the smell of death, many Haitians wear masks, bandannas or even small pieces of orange peel wedged inside the tip of their nostrils.

But after speaking with the Haitians she was treating, and after learning about the country's history, her view has shifted.

Haitians with "temporary protective status" in the United States are a main source of support.

He knew we would bring more Haitians to the United States than the Bush administration had, and he didn't want his people to drown.

But Haitians themselves, and especially their political leaders, will have to pull together.

A steady flow of rich white expats and impoverished Haitians has swollen the population.

To mark their achievement of an equivocal freedom, Haitians traditionally eat pumpkin soup.

Venezuela supplies subsidized oil and Haitians in the United States send money home.

Sackey said that the earthquake caused many psychological as well as physical injuries to Haitians.

Untold numbers of Haitians are dead, trapped in rubble or missing after the country's worst earthquake in two centuries.

Haitians are a special people, says Mr Morse, and now they are living through "biblical moments" in their turbulent history.

On the anniversary of the quake, Haitians are erecting memorials, no matter how small, to the tragedy.

ON JANUARY 1st, Haitians traditionally celebrate their country's victory in its long struggle for independence from France.

And many Haitians grumbled that the cost of other food needed to fall.

Young Haitians can learn French at the Little Haiti Cultural Center.

According to the bank, 83% of skilled Haitians live abroad.

Twelve months after a devastating earthquake, nearly one million Haitians still live in tents or other temporary shelters.

They favor the biracial elite over black Haitians, deepening longstanding tensions.

Many Haitians say the police are becoming more professional.

In the absence of a functioning market economy, Haitians today collect garbage themselves in order to exchange recyclables for cash.

One, perhaps even two million Haitians already live in the United States, but more try to come.

Unless steps are quickly taken to plan and design more resilient housing, Haitians risk disaster again.

After the earthquake, NGOs and public officials vowed to work with ordinary Haitians to "build back better" .

Its energy infrastructure was dismal, most Haitians having no access to electricity.

By 2008, 80 percent of Haitians lived on less than $2 per day, and the country found itself in the grips of a food crisis.

Ever since the first slave revolt by Haitians in 1791, the country has been beset by abuses caused from within and without.

Under pressure, the government reopened many of these markets, but the Haitians to enter the market to adopt strict quarantine measures.

This morning, Haitians gathered at what remains of Notre Damn Cathedral to celebrate mash on this somber occasion.

Haitians are already accustomed to buying cell-phone minutes electronically from vendors on the street.

Haitians who fled to the countryside after the disaster have returned in search of jobs and services.

Haitians crowded into banks and money transfer offices that reopened Saturday for the first time since last week's earthquake.

Producing a resource themselves that will make them less dependent on other countries really excites and motivates Haitians.

Haitians don't want to be victims any more than we would.

Haitians wait in line to get water at a makeshift shelter in Port-au-Prince.

The government has at last begun a concerted campaign to educate Haitians about cholera and its treatment.

In the same vein, there are the "miraculous" recoveries of Haitians buried in the rubble for days.

Given enough resources and training, Haitians can work well.

Though more than half of Haitians work in farming, they produce less than half the country's food needs.

These forest areas are unfamiliar to many Haitians, Moore said.

U. N. forces help distribute food to displaced Haitians on Friday.

Can our billions in aid to Haitians accomplish anything?

Help from the diaspora of 1m Haitians in the United States will be vital.

Haitians and their outside helpers must urgently find a way to balance short-term survival and longer-term development.

Barack Obama rightly promised Haiti "unwavering support" and halted the deportation of Haitians living illegally in America.

So Haitians are almost entirely dependent on what the outside world can do.

That figure doesn't include those saved by ordinary Haitians digging with their shovels, sticks and bare hands.

Senegal has even offered free land to Haitians who want to move there.

At left, Haitians wash clothes in a stream on Jan. 8, 2011 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

An estimated 30, 000 Haitians were killed during Duvalier's reign of terror and many more fled into exile.

Before the earthquake an estimated 70 percent of Haitians lived on two dollars or less per day.

Let's send our blessings to the Haitians!

Just 4 days after the earthquake, Haitians could text their location and urgent needs to "4636" for free.

We must increase aid but also allow Haitians to help themselves, and there is no way they can do that sitting in a devastated nation.

Some Dominicans (who are mainly mulatto) have a racist attitude to mainly black Haitians.

He is also being sued by several Haitians for torture and other crimes against humanity.

Only 10 percent of Haitians have bank accounts.

In the photo at right, Haitians are shown returning to their tents on Jan. 24, 2010, two weeks after the disaster.

Haitians go to the polls on Sunday in a presidential election run-off.

Haitians go to the polls on Sunday in a presidential election run-off.

The students were among thousands of Haitians who came to the United States after their country's powerful earthquake last year.

As the army collects information, many Haitians come here in the hope of finding a job.

As of January 22, more than 100, 000 Haitians were receiving relief items such as blankets, plastic sheeting and water containers each day.

We can't leave so many millions of Haitians abandoned anymore.

So in the coming months as we help Haitians rebuild, let's dispatch not only aid workers, but also business investors.

Many Haitians could not get enough money together to buy food or rent a place to sleep.

The European Union says it will give nearly $5 million to help impoverished Haitians c

Port-au-Prince, Haiti: Local children are illuminated by candles during a power cut. Fewer than 6% of Haitians have constant electricity