February 2012
2 posts
Believing is seeing, Haiti edition
tatewatkins:
It’s probably never a good idea for someone who has little frame of reference regarding poverty to parachute into a poor tropical city for one week and report on the situation for all the world to read. You inevitably wind up with descriptions of capital-city chaos and disorder, omnipresent threats of danger presented without context, more interviews with expats than locals, and...
January 2012
4 posts
RT @USEmbPretoria: @esfaceblack Not sure if you missed that, but NPR is loving on soup joumou: http://t.co/kNBUkhXT #Haiti
“No one has the “solution” - the answer to poverty - but we’re all working...”
– David Damberger of EWB
Failing Forward.
I have to say that I am still a sucker for admitting failure.
(via tumblingfromthecave)
December 2011
12 posts
why black market innovation matters →
“There’s a French word for someone who’s self-reliant or ingenious: débrouillard. This got sort of mutated in the postcolonial areas of Africa and the Caribbean to refer to the street economy, which is called l’économie de la débrouillardise—the self-reliance economy, or the DIY economy.” -Neuwirth
RT @DokteCoffee: MT @melindayiti Congrats @AJEnglish @SebWalker @Ayiti2020 @dizzyshambles for duPont award #Haiti http://t.co/eh0vbPQl / …
bookshelf porn →
To quote the fabulous, Kyra Choucroun: ‘Oh my jesus. I think I just got pregnant.’
“”It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you...”
– via holstee
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide...”
November 2011
2 posts
RT @HaitiAidWatch: Despite continued prevalence of #cholera, OCHA says 13 partners will withdraw from response btwn Oct and Dec. http:// …
October 2011
12 posts
Stoked for this: http://t.co/b0FI31EV #socent #haiti
RT @lachinous: “A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to”— Banksy
I love @sandbox_network. That is all.
Absolutely loving my @HOLSTEE wallet; thanks to @pforti! Also thanks for a phenomenal last few days!
Note to #Haiti residents and visitors: IMEDIS has the rabies vaccine in PAP. I learned this the hard way.
RT @matthewoldfield: Just posted a few images of damage in #Bali following the earthquake today http://t.co/GE8ln8LL
“If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you...”
– Roald Dahl
First day of school in #Haiti today! Bonjou, Blokis!
September 2011
5 posts
The Soley Leve boys rocked it at TEDxPort-au-Prince today! Viv Soley Leve! Viv Cite Soley! #Haiti
In an ideal world… : Want a Real Economic Stimulus and Jobs Plan? Forgive Student Loan Debt! http://t.co/SKoHofyf #signon
Noooo! Say it ain’t so! I’m not back till next week! RT @RAMhaiti Tomorrow may be the last RAM Thursday till November #Haiti
“When you are so much of the world, you have a responsibility for the world.”
– Interview with Celeste Schenk, President of the American University of Paris in Denizen Mag
July 2011
1 post
“Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you’re good is like...”
– My stora syster (older sister) is a wise woman.
June 2011
3 posts
“I hope kids are still finding some way, despite Google and Wikipedia, of not...”
– Tim Kreider, In Praise of Not Knowing (via stoweboyd)
The Curse of Altruism
It’s June, which means, it’s summer time or almost summer time in the Northern Hemisphere. The sun should be out making for beautiful weather where winter is finally shedding it’s cold chrysalis… Here in Haiti, we officially entered hurricane season a few days ago and are in our second tropical depression so far, which means rain, and lots of it; which means hundreds of...
“Our number-one value isn’t in any of the skills we have. It’s that we’re...”
– Jim Coudal, of Coudal Partners. Via SwissMiss and Brainpickings. (via yesmachine)
May 2011
8 posts
Emergency Response vs Development - a personal...
There is a river flowing between Grand Goave and Leogane, the epicenter of the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti. It’s not a huge or very deep river; in fact, it’s usually more of a stream going through a river bed. There used to be a bridge going over this mini river, but the earthquake collapsed it, so now cars and trucks full of people, animals and supplies have to drive directly...
Michael Franti is in #Haiti - everyone deserves music; sweet music! :)
“How ironic that, in the end, the war against poverty may be won when those who...”
– Great article from @Marcelo_WB on Huffington Post
The 2010 Humanitarian Accountability Report. Interesting lessons from #Haiti: http://bit.ly/kBFDOf
“You may think you are too small to make a difference, if so try sleeping in a...”
– African Proverb
“The concept of work-life balance is bullshit. First, it presumes that work is in...”
– Finally finding some good writing on this subject (the quote is pretty much the good part, though). I can understand the concept of work-life balance for people who hate their job. But that’s not where I want to be in the first place, so work-life balance just never seemed to fully apply, yet I...
April 2011
19 posts
It’s 100% official: #Martelly it is. I hope that he is the hope #Haiti can believe in.