Cholera Response

For several weeks Yéle Haiti has been working with Partners in Health (PIH) – and more recently International Action and Clean the World – in…

Cipha Sounds (Youtube.com)

Update (December 22) - According to NY1, Hot 97 has announced that Cipha Sounds has been taken off the air indefinitely and has been instructed to take sensitivity training focused on the…

The World Bank informs that the Haiti Reconstruction Fund (HRF) has approved at the 4th meeting of the Interim Haiti Recovery Commission (IHRC) held in Santo Domingo on Tuesday, 102 million dollars to fund four projects:



$65 million will be spent on rebuilding destroyed houses in poor neighborhoods

$25 million will be used for debris removal by the United…

Over 30 international players from the best football teams in the world gathered yesterday for the Match Against Poverty, hosted this year by the Football Club Olympiacos Piraeus, Greece. Revenues from this match are intended to victims of natural disasters in Haiti and Pakistan.…

As of Wednesday October 27, 2010; Haiti’s Health Ministry reported more than…

When Marie-Yolaine Eusebe visited her native Haiti five months after the earthquake, she couldn't believe the country was still so devastated.

The Bedford-Stuyvesant resident saw hundreds of rescue workers, talked to dozens of aid groups and knew about the millions of dollars do-gooders had donated - but she couldn't see any improvements.

"People kept…

We love to see island folk doing big things so we were very happy to read about Haitian-American designer Hassan Pierre… in the May 2010 issue of US Vogue, no less!

While folks may not always associate Haiti with haute couture, Pierre, who is a 22 year old grad of Parson’s School of Design, has fashion in his blood, as he…

In 1774, Jean Baptiste DuSable, a black frontierman born in Haiti, founded the City of Chicago, Illinois. In case you didn't know, Jean Baptiste Pointe Du Sable was born in St. Marc, Haiti around 1745. His father was french and his mother was a Haitian Slave. He was educated in France and later worked on one of his father's ships as a seaman. …

Frederik Hahn ( DJ Haitian Star ) still remains one of the hottest insider tips, even though he started deejaying in the mid-80`s. Since then the German artist with Haitian roots has been spinning all over the planet rock from France, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, Austria, the Czech Republic, Poland, Scandinavia, USA,…

Régine René is the newly appointed Cultural Affairs Officer for U.S. Embassy Port-au-Prince. Ms. René is a Foreign Service Officer who officially joined the Department of State in September of 2008. She first began working with the Department as an intern at U.S. Embassy Santo Domingo, and was soon awarded the Thomas Pickering Graduate Foreign Affairs Fellowship in 2006. Since then, Ms. René has worked at the…

Haitian Music reviewers

By: Recklaz

People who write Haitian music reviews are almost always Kompa lovers, and they will often listen to a piece of Kompa music again and again to discover all the nuances and sensations the piece can offer. Depending on the Kompa reviewer, their opinions may or not be objective.

Kompa reviewers are in the business of…

Wyclef Jean was joined by Yele team members as well as Haitian friends and Delegates as he opened the markets at NASDAQ today in wake of the 6 month anniversary of the earthquake disaster in Haiti.

Wyclef called upon the business leaders of the world to help by investing in Haiti, a country…