Tag : Foreign Aid

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What Haitian Rap Tells Us About the Upcoming Elections

Jose Hiriart, a videographer and HaitiHub student, helped film and edit this video for the group New Squad during a 2015 trip to Port au Prince, Haiti. This music video not only serves to bring you the voice and perspective... Read more
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  • Paul Clammer author of Haiti: The Bradt Travel Guide sits down with HaitiHub

15 Questions for Paul Clammer, Author of Haiti: The Bradt Travel Guide

We are thrilled to welcome acclaimed travel writer and guide book author, Paul Clammer, to the HaitiHub blog.  Paul has traveled, researched, and written about places all over the world including Morocco, Turkey, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Sudan, the Dominican Republic, and... Read more
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Back in the U.S. and trying to make sense of things

I just opened our “junk drawer” looking for the scissors and thinking about how there was probably no paper in there either, since my sister had been lamenting that earlier in the day…and I had to laugh to myself when... Read more
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Understanding the Current Crisis in the Dominican Republic

Understanding the current crisis in the Dominican Republic: In 2013 a Dominican constitutional court ruled to revoke the citizenship of anyone born in the D.R. after 1929 to Haitian immigrant parents. Why 1929? In 1929 the border dividing Hispaniola into... Read more
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Finding Space to Care for Ourselves in Haiti

When one of my Italian midwife friends heard that I had left Haiti, she wrote to me and said something along the lines of, “I can understand completely your decision; it is very hard to find space to care for... Read more