The Week In Haiti - CBS

CBS News' Jeff Glor is in Haiti and provides a timeline of the events immediately after a devastating earthquake struck.

Haiti Week Kicks Off with NUCHR

Please join us for the

7th Annual Northwestern University

Conference on Human Rights

"Urban Slums: The Shadow of the Humanitarian Generation"

www.nuchr.net

When: Jan. 21-24

What: Undergraduates, nonprofit workers, policy makers and academics will gather at the 2010 Northwestern University Conference on Human Rights to examine the problems slum dwellers face and, while focusing on the factors that maintain slum life, explore different motivations and approaches in addressing the human rights violations of slum dwellers.

First Event!!!: Thursday January 21 8pm: Opening Keynote: Empowering Hope: Cities, Slums, and Human Rights—Katherine Sierra, Vice President for Sustainable Development at the World Bank

**NU Stands with Haiti Fundraising Kick-Off**

Owen L. Coon Forum, Leverone Hall, Northwestern University

Please See the Schedule at www.nuchr.net

***Events are free and open to the public! Please contribute to our donation boxes to support Partners in Health in Haiti***

Images from Partners in Health Hospital

Flickr: Haiti_0110_KNakashima_08, originally uploaded by Partners_In_Health.

Click here for recent images from the Partners In Health hospital in Cange that has been treating an endless stream of earthquake victims.

If Haiti is to `build back better' - Paul Farmer

Paul Farmer is the Presley Professor of Social Medicine at the Harvard Medical School, the co-founder of Partners In Health, and the deputy to Bill Clinton, United Nations Special Envoy for Haiti.

A few months ago, I joined President Clinton as a volunteer to, in his words, help Haiti ``build back better'' after a series of storms in 2008 destroyed an estimated 15 percent of already beleaguered Haiti's GDP. We had just been meeting about these efforts and a series of upcoming forums to be held in Port-au-Prince, and I was then going to join colleagues from Partners In Health in central Haiti, where I have had the good fortune to work with remarkable Haitian medical colleagues for many years. The day before our New York meeting, Port-au-Prince was flattened by an earthquake. There is not a lot left to be said, but having just returned from Port-au-Prince, there are some points worth underlining.

Northwestern student groups respond to damage of Haiti earthquake

Daily Northwestern

By Lilia Hargis

A week has passed since the magnitude-7.0 earthquake devastated Haiti, and its impacts are still fresh in the minds of the Northwestern students who met Monday night to coordinate a campus-wide response to the tragedy.

Student group leaders made tentative plans for a week of events on campus beginning Thursday Jan. 21 to both raise money for relief and educate students about the politics, history and culture of Haiti. It remains undecided which relief organizations will benefit from the fundraising, but the Red Cross and Partners In Health were two popular choices.

Luckow: The natural response to an unnatural tragedy

NORTHWESTERN / Jan. 18, 2010 at 11:26 pm

Letters

The immediate toll of the earthquake in Haiti is unfathomable. Fifty thousand dead (so far) with an additional three million homeless or injured. Horrifying images illustrate these statistics – a bulldozer scooping away piles of bodies, a dead child being tossed out the back door of a hospital, a foot poking out of a mountain of concrete. Tens of thousands of people gather at the central park in Port-au-Prince, searching for family, food, and water. And this is to say nothing of long-term cost of fallen schools, ruptured roads and ports, and the enormous gaps left in the Haitian government after many of their occupied buildings collapsed.

NU Red Cross & ASG contribute to Haitian aid

NORTH BY NORTHWESTERN / Jan. 17, 2010 at 9:02 pm

Kaitlyn Jahelka

The student chapter of the American Red Cross of Greater Chicago at Northwestern University already has efforts underway to help the victims of the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti on Tuesday. As soon as the day after the quake, the club began rallying support from the Northwestern community.

In a statement released by the Red Cross of Northwestern on Wednesday, students were urged to go online to www.redcross.org, call in donations to 1-800-RED-CROSS, or simply text HAITI to the number 90999. The text message automatically donates ten dollars to the cause, which will be added to the donor’s phone bill.