Win "Haiti Birds" Painting!

At the Haiti Committee's Book Sale tomorrow,  Saturday, April 30th at 3112 West Cary Street, Carytown, if you sponsor a student for $150, you'll receive a raffle ticket and a chance to win "Haitian Birds" an original acrylic painting by applegate Art.

Come on over, check out all the great books available at prices that will knock your socks off!

It's all for the kids of Carissade, Haiti!

See you tomorrow!

"Be ye doers of the word, not hearers only."

By Times-Dispatch Staff Zachary Reid. Published: April 24, 2011.
 
"If ever there existed a place where you'd expect people to give up their faith, to turn their backs on a God who'd so obviously turned his or her back on them, it'd be Haiti.

Natural disasters, political corruption, the worst examples of good intentions gone bad, Haiti is living proof of what happens when life goes horribly wrong.

"It's among the poorest, most impoverished places I've ever seen," Chip Woodson told me. "Poverty looks the same wherever you go, but Haiti is among the worst places." 

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The Accidental Tourist

On a hot morning in January, at the Pétionville Internally Displaced Person camp in suburban Port-au-Prince, Haiti, a four-wheel dirt bike pulled up outside the tent hospital, bearing an elderly woman with a deep gash in her cheek. While a group of medics assisted the patient inside, Sean Penn ambled over from under a tree where he had been having a meeting with one of his camp workers. He walked with a slightly bowlegged cowboy gait, a walkie-talkie crackling at his waistband, a cigarette dangling from his mouth. Having glanced into the tent and ascertained that the situation was in hand, he turned his rather dour gaze on a newly arrived reporter.  Click here to continue reading...

From pop star to president: Haiti’s election winner

Supporters of “Sweet Micky” are celebrating his landslide win in last month’s election in Haiti.

Dismissed as a no-hoper at first, Michel “Sweet Micky” Martelly still seems an unlikely choice to lead one of the world’s most challenged countries.

He is, after all, a singer and anti-establishment entertainer with a reputation for exuberant on-stage antics.

But after decades of poverty and misrule and last year’s crippling earthquake, Martelly tapped into the aspirations of Haitians yearning for change.

His promises to deliver swept aside a second- round challenge from his older, more experienced rival, former first lady Mirlande Manigat.

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