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U.S. Peanuts Don’t Belong in Haiti

If you follow the news, or run in circles where Haiti is at the forefront of people’s minds, you’ve likely already heard that the United States has a significant peanut surplus; and we’re trying to send 500 tons of it... Read more
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What one cholera victim wants you to know on International Human Rights Day

The Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti (IJDH) recently put out a call for volunteers to help translate hundreds of letters (more than 500 at first count) from Creole into English.  These letters are the testimony of some small... Read more
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That’s a joke, right?

I can’t wait till I can understand sarcasm in Creole. There are many measures of language comprehension… function, connection, humor… When learning a new language, our first victories come in the form of greetings and simple questions. As our skills... Read more
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Have a Creole question? Ask her anything.

We are thrilled to welcome our good friend Mandaly Louis-Charles to the HaitiHub blog.  We first connected with Mandaly in 2011, when she helped us run our very first Creole Skype classes; more recently we’ve benefitted hugely as readers of her blog:... Read more
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