Haiti After the Earthquake (69 page)

Finally, writing requires protected time and protected spaces, and these were very hard for me to find. My deepest gratitude goes to Jennie Block, who insisted on both; Jon Weigel, who did more than anyone else to help me finish my part of this volume; Maryse Penette-Kedar, who offered me safe haven within the quake zone, Todd and Anne McCormack, who as ever provided safe haven in Boston; and my brother Jeff, who not only
helped me carve out a few days to write but also read parts of the book and discussed most of it. Writing also requires editors of the more informal sort: friends who read drafts or just listened to arguments. This past year, Claire Pierre and Louise Ivers, much mentioned in this book, and also Jean-Renold Réjouit, Abbey Gardner, and Cassia Holstein, helped me to understand things about the quake and about development assistance that I might not otherwise have grasped. As ever, and for almost thirty-five years, Haun Saussy has helped me to understand and better describe complex events.

2010–2011 has been a grim season of loss. In addition to those lost on January 12, we all miss Tom White, Yolande “Mamito” Lafontant, Patricia Neal, Alix Chipps, Joan Kleinman, and many others. The dedication page allows me to thank Al and Diane Kaneb, who, like Tom, have supported our efforts unstintingly and generously for long years. Love is good, but unconditional love is better, and it's for this reason I dedicate this volume to two friends who are still very much with us, and still standing with Haiti.

The longer (though necessarily incomplete) list of friends, family, volunteers, and donors who contributed in countless ways to our efforts after the earthquake can be found at
http://www.pih.org/eqgratitude
.

Abe, Valentin

accompaniment

Action Plan for National Recovery and Development of Haiti

acute-on-chronic

events

problems

Adams, Jody

Africa, AIDS

Aristides in

Darfur and

displaced persons time in “temporary” settlements

Haitian students and

health policy and

tuberculosis

Agoos, Zoe

agriculture in Haiti

after earthquake

Clinton apology on

deforestation and

international trade policies and

Nation
essay (Farmer) and

nature and

problems overview

U.S. agricultural subsidies effects

vitamin-enriched peanut butter

Aiding Violence
(Uvin)

AIDS

Bill Clinton's programs

direct service and

first UN General Assembly on

policy and

President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief

social response and

Vienna International AIDS Conference

See also
Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria;
specific organizations

AIDS and Accusation
(Farmer)

AIDS/Haiti

meeting (January 12)

National AIDS program

Partners In Health programs

See also
Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria;
specific organizations

“America's Top Chef” fundraiser

Anacaona, Taino Queen

Andrews, Jason

Anglade, Dominique

Annabi, Hédi

background

earthquake and

UN Haiti team and

Annan, Kofi

Ansara, Jim

Antelope's Strategy, The: Living in Rwanda After the Genocide
(Hatzfeld)

Apollon, Gabrielle

Arcade Fire band

Archer, Natasha

background

earthquake and

Arias, Oscar

Aristide, Father Jean-Bertrand

1990 elections/1991 coup

after coup

background

Bush administrations and

democratic elections and

forced exile

French debt and

medical school and

return to Haiti

second presidential election/term

words/ideas of

Aristide, Lady Mildred

AIDS programs and

coup/exile and

Aristide Foundation

Arrupe, Father Pedro

Associated Press articles

ATD Quart Monde

Augustin, Josué

Bahnsen, Emily

Bailey, Lee

Balch, Emily Greene

Ban Ki-moon

Bill Clinton and

donors' conference (2010)

International Donors' Conference (2009)

Montas-Dominique and

UN emergency session day after earthquake

Band, Doug

Barnett, George

Basilico, Matt

Bayona, Jaime

bearing witness to suffering

See also
earthquake accounts

Becker, Anne

Bell, Madison Smartt

Bellerive, Gessie

Bellerive, Jean-Max

background

day of earthquake

earthquake aftermath and

Global Fund and

Haiti recovery and

IHRC and

meeting in Canada

one-year anniversary

sister

Bernard, Berlyne

Best and the Brightest, The
(Halberstam)

Biafran War (1967–1970)

Binagwaho, Agnès

biofuels

Biosocial phenomena

cholera outbreak

roots of disaster

Block, Jennie

background

earthquake account

earthquake and

rebuilding Haiti and

sister

Bokassa, Jean-Bedel

Bolduc, Kim

Bolívar, Simón

Borbon Parma, Carolina de

Boston “war room,”

Boucan Carré

bridge

health center in

solar energy and

Brazil

Boucan Carré bridge and

relief/development aid

tripartite meeting

UN peacekeeping in Haiti and

bridge, Boucan Carré

Brigham and Women's Hospital

Brown, Karen McCarthy

Burundi

Partners In Health and

Rwandan refugees and

Bush, George H. W.

Bush, George W.

Aristide and

President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief

Butler, Win

background

Haitian recovery and

Canada and Haiti relationship

Canada Ministerial Conference (January 25)

conclusions

participants

purpose

travel to

Cange

Farmer's return to

as former squatter settlement

graduation celebration

history

reforestation

school history

Cange hospital

about

earthquake victims and

history

Cap-Haïtien Hospital

Cardin, Ben

Caribbean Harvest

Carrefour, Haiti

Central African Republic

CHAI (Clinton Health Access Initiative)

charcoal-briquette makers

Charlop-Powers, Aaron

Chassagne, Régine

background

Haitian recovery and

Irish Times
article

Chimè gang

Chipps, Alix

Chipps, Marie-Flore

cholera

about

developing countries/conflict and

in Peru

Rwanda and

symptoms

treatment

victims

in Zimbabwe

cholera epidemic (2010–2011)

asymptomatic cases and

beginnings

blame/accusations and

blame/demonstrations and

central Haiti and

clean water access and

description/statistics

experts' division on

finding origins and

predictions on spread

prevention means

spread

strain identification and

treatment

treatment/prevention access and

UN peacekeepers' latrines/ sanitation and

vaccine and

water/sanitation and

“civil society,”

“claims of causality,”

cholera epidemics and

poverty in Haiti and

war in central Africa and

Clark, Ann

Clarkson, Thomas

Clemens, John

Clinton, Bill

1992 elections/platform

AIDS programs and

Aristide and

direct service/policy and

“GSD” (get stuff done)

Haiti and U.S. agricultural subsidies

hurricanes in Haiti and

Rwanda and

as UN Special Envoy, Haiti

as UN Special Envoy for Tsunami Recovery (2005/2006)

Vienna AIDS meeting

Clinton, Bill/earthquake

day of

donors' conference, New York

first post-quake visit

General Hospital visits

Haiti's need and

IHRC and

one-year anniversary

recovery and

second post-quake visit

sugar mill jobs and

UN emergency session day after earthquake

UN Special Envoy, Haiti

Clinton, Chelsea

in Rwanda

on “temporary” shelters

wedding

Clinton, Hillary

donors conference, New York

meeting in Canada

Partners In Health and

as Secretary of State

Clinton Foundation

about

Cange graduation celebration and

earthquake work and

investors' conference (Haiti/ 2009)

Rwanda and

storm shelters and

work in Haiti

Clinton Global Initiative

Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI)

“Columbian exchange,”

Comedians, The
(Greene)

Congo

and Belgian rule

claims of causality and

genocide and

Goma

Rwanda contrast

Rwandans in

Conille, Garry

Constan, Ted

construction in Haiti

description

school collapse (2008)

cooking energy

deforestation and

“green” charcoal-briquette makers

Cooper, Anderson

Coqmard, Fabiola

Corail-Cesselesse resettlement proposal

Costa Rica and armies

Creole language description

Crisis Caravan, The: What's Wrong with Humanitarian Aid?
(Polman)

Crowley, P. J.

Cruz, Carlos Alberto dos Santos

Cuba

aid to Haiti

cholera and

Haiti, Cuba, Brazil meeting

Haiti comparison

Haitian medical students and

history

hurricanes and

medical brigade

Cullen, Kim

Cullity, Lizbeth

da Costa, Luis

background

earthquake and

UN Haiti team and

Dahl, Ophelia

about

Boucan Carré bridge and

day of earthquake

earthquake aftermath

hurricanes and

Obama's State of the Union address and

Partners In Health and

Danner, Mark

Danticat, Edwidge

background

CNN and

earthquake account

Darbonne Sugar Milléogâne

DART (United States Disaster Assistance Response Team)

Dartmouth College

Davidson, Jon

Davis, Mike

deforestation in Haiti

about

charcoal consumers and

cooking energy and

erosion and

flooding/mud slides and

Nation
essay (Farmer) and

preventing

problems overview

See also
reforestation in Haiti

del Rosario, Maria Concepcion

Denera, Given Dorsinde

Denera, Marcel

Desai, Ami

Dessalines, Jean-Jacques

Dewiz, Phillippe

Diamond, Jared

disasters natural and unnatural

bearing witness and

cholera and

claims of expertise and

foreign aid and

displaced persons

disease risks and

Malawi refuge camp

time in “temporary” settlements

See also
settlements following earthquake

Dobbins, James

Dominican Republic

contrast with Haiti

earthquake victims and

forest cover

history

meeting on Haiti (March 2010)

Dominique, Jean

assassination of

background/legacy

Radio Haiti

donors' conference, New York

action plan and

delivery/control and

Farmer and

Montas-Dominique and

participants

pledges

preparations for

Dorsinville, Nancy

background

earthquake account