Tag: Port-au-Prince

By Daniel Tillias, Goldin Global Fellow, Haiti A letter to the Goldin Institute’s global network of champions for community driven social change on the 10th Anniversary of the earthquake in Haiti Thank you for keeping your promise. After the earthquake, ten years ago, a lot of promises were made. I remember people saying that out… Continue reading Thank you to those who stand with Haiti

At 4:53 pm, January 12, 2010 an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.0 on the Richter scale struck the island of Hispaniola, comprising the two nations of Haiti and the Dominican Republic, 15 miles southwest of the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince. “In ten seconds, everything the population took decades to build was destroyed,” recalled Goldin… Continue reading Reflections on the 2010 Earthquake in Haiti

Recent interview provides inspiration and plans for future expansion of KOFAVIV We recently caught up with Global Associate Malya Villard-Appolon, although not in Haiti running KOFAVIV as you would normally expect to see her, but in Philadelphia. Malya’s work to reduce all forms of violence perpetrated against women and girls living in camps and communities… Continue reading GI Associate Malya Villard Reports from Philadelphia, PA

Executive Summary of the Project Since the Jan. 12, 2010 earthquake in Haiti, women and girls living in the internally displaced persons camps face alarming rates of rape and other forms of gender-based violence. In many camps, the rate of gender-based violence has exploded to three times pre-earthquake levels. In the year since the earthquake,… Continue reading Rape Accountability and Prevention in Haiti