This Month on Pulse - May

Sunday, May 22 @ 12:00 PM
Thursday, May 26 @ 7:30 PM

 

Aid in Haiti
As time goes on, many tend to forget the constant need for donations and volunteers as Haiti continues to rebuild more than a year after a devastating earthquake left the island devastated.  Schools, housing and hospitals are still in desperate need.  Where have the charitable donations gone and what difference are they making?

Guest:
Enrique Ginzburg, M.D., Project Medishare
Chrystian Tejedor, American Red Cross South Florida Region

 
Haiti’s New Era
On May 14th, a new era began in Haiti as Michel Martelly was sworn in as president.  This is the first time in the islands 200 plus year history that power has passed from one elected official to another peacefully.  Will this new presidency give Haitians a renewed hope?

Guest:
Jean-Robert Lafortune, Haitian-American Grassroots Coalition

Comments

[Jean F Colin]

"To avoid a repetition of the disaster, the government of Haiti and the international donor community now need to turn to building the foundations for a more effective state." Building a more resilient Haitian state.
http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/2010/RAND_MG1039.pdf

Some of the leaders in the haitian community have lost touch with the new realities on the ground in Haiti. Also, in the context and vision of Secretary Clinton's Global Diaspora Forum, Haiti will never be the same. Our destiny as a nation has changed for the better and the benefits we have enjoyed in the Haitian Diaspora will now be made available to those brothers and sisters we have left behind as well.
This new paradigm represents an extraordinary opportunity today to reinvent and redefine the Haitian Identity. And, if done intelligently and successfully, the consequences will be as liberating and as crucial as 1804 itself .
Our children in the Haitian Diaspora and our African-American brothers and sisters, whose civil rights struggles have facilitated our own development and growth in the US over the past 40 years, must now and finally "tear down the Berlin wall" of racism and ignorance that makes up the artificial borders that have divided and isolated our communities for the past 200 years.

Let us seize the moment!