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Grace Community Church will be hosting a large yard sale on Sept. 18 to help raise funds for 19 members of its congregation who are planning a relief trip to Haiti.

Port au Prince, Sep 8 Aocial organization called Citizen''s Observatory is planning several debates before the election campaign to inform Haitians at home and abroad about the government platforms of the 19 presidential candidates.

On Friday, about 2,000 tiny fish in Mississippi will be sent to Haiti to help with Operation Blessing International's earthquake relief project.

OVER SIX months since the 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti, severe deforestation and the uncontrolled dumping of debris are among the complex environmental issues the United Nations Environment Programme is helping to address.

In January, 2010, the Holy Trinity Music School and concert hall were destroyed in the Haitian earthquake Holy Trinity Music School is the only music school of its kind in Haiti.

Feeding and educating children in Haiti is more than a passion for Miles and Rosemary Blair, it's a calling.

Eight Days: A Story of Haiti By Edwidge Danticat Illustrated by Alix Delinois Hardcover, 32 pages Orchard Books List price: $17.99 When a massive earthquake struck Haiti, killing more than 230,000 people, it was almost impossible for grown-ups to avoid the tragic headlines.

As presidential hopeful Jude Clestin registered his candidacy inside the quake-battered headquarters of the electoral commission last month, the group of supporters crowding him reflected Haiti's turbulent political past.

Haitians line up as the International humanitarian organisation GOAL distributes food to the quake victims on March 30, 2010 in Port-au-Prince. Photograph by: Thony Belizaire, AFP/Getty Images UNITED NATIONS a ' Canada ranks third in a global "generosity" survey, in which the key overall finding is that being happy is a greater impulse for people ...

The UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti has begun investigation into the alleged involvement of Nepali members of UN Formed Police Unit based in Cap-Haitien in the death of a Haitian youth Gerard Jean Gilles some three weeks ago.

PORT AU PRINCE, HAITI , Sep. 08 /CSRwire/ - Haiti Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive and ECCO2 Corp have begun discussions regarding the launch of the "ECCO2 Haiti Project" in efforts to reduce carbon emissions and stimulate the Haitian economy following the catastrophic earthquake earlier this year.

EU foreign representative Catherine Ashton and Haiti's Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive attend a press conference in Port-au-Prince on March 03, 2010.

FINDING STRENGTH: Life after the earthquake in Haiti is challenging for women, who often become victims of sexual and home violence in the makeshift camps.

Delice Rodrigue is a typical Haitian mother. In Haiti, motherhood is a symbol of power.

"When the earthquake hit, all the major hospitals and surgical centers in Port Au Prince were leveled, so our little rural hospital was one of the few hospitals left standing with a surgical center," reports Lizzy De Vita, creative director for the Point Breeze group Friends of Hopital Albert Schweitzer Haiti .

The devastating January, 2010 7.0 magnitude earthquake in Haiti resulted in approximately 100,000 deaths and the destruction of a large portion of Port-au-Prince, the capital and largest city in Haiti.

For many Americans, getting a toothbrush from the dentist is a biannual tradition.

DIEPPE, N.B. a ' Hundreds of mourners packed a church in Woodstock, N.B., on Thursday to bid farewell to RCMP officer Sgt.

At least 10 people died and 17 others were injured in a bus accident on the Haitian border with the Dominican Republic, official sources said on Tuesday.

A global hospitality partnership has come together to help the recovery process in Haiti with a programme to support young Haitians into the hospitality sector.