Eyes of the Heart: Seeking a Path for the Poor in the Age of Globalization - Bishop Thomas J. Gumbleton: "If you have never been to Haiti, you must read this book. The Eyes of Your Heart will see what you have never seen before: the one place on this planet where the vision proclaimed by Jesus in the Beatitudes is happening."
The Haiti FY02-06 Development Assistance Programs (DAPs), aim at increasing household level food security.
All four Cooperating Sponsors - CARE, Catholic Relief Services, Save the Children/US and World Vision International - working in 6 out of 9 departments of the country - have begun to implement their activities. Their focus is on pregnant women, nursing mothers and infants between the ages of 6 to 59 months, most vulnerable to malnutrition, on poor farmers in food insecure areas, on primary school children, and on the chronically food insecure orphans, and institutionalized elderly and sick.
Haiti in Focus: A Guide to the People, Politics, and Culture - During two centuries of independence from colonial rule, Haiti has developed into a society quite distinct from those found in the rest of the region. Hollywood-derived images of black magic and Graham Greene-inspired conceptions of a "nightmare republic" do scant justice to the reality of life for those who make up the third largest population in the Caribbean.
How did the slaves of France's most prosperous colony defeat the armies of Napoleon, Spain, and Britain? Why did the U.S. occupation of 1915-34 fail to establish a plantation economy in Haiti? Haiti in Focus is an authoritative and up-to-date guide to this fascinating country. The guide explores the land, history and politics, economy, society and people, culture and environment, and includes tips on where to go and what to see.