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Facts on Haiti

admin — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 17:02:32 +0000

Haiti occupies the western one-third of the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, with the Dominican Republican occupying the east. Though rich in history, French-speaking Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, hampering its ability to recover from natural disasters. The numbers tell a story:

A map showing the epicentre of the Jan. 12, 2010 earthquake. (CBC)80

Percentage of the population living below the poverty line

Percentage of the population living in abject poverty

Haiti’s population as of July 2009 was just over nine million

346.4

Population density per square kilometre

Median age

Life expectancy at birth

3.81

Fertility rate

80 out of 1,000

Children die before the age of five

120,000

Haitians were living with AIDS in 2007

7,200

Haitians died of AIDS in 2007

53 per cent

Literacy rate

47 per cent

Urban population

Four

Number of tropical storms in 2008 that severely damaged the transportation infrastructure and agricultural sector

Two-thirds

Proportion of the population that depends on the agricultural sector, mainly small-scale subsistence farming

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admin — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 21:34:18 +0000

** FEATURED ARTICLE ***

Haitian Orphans Call Cemetery Home

By night, they sleep outside the gates of the city’s largest cemetery, huddled only a few feet from the graves of this troubled country’s former dictators, presidents and wealthy power brokers. By day, they roam the cemetery’s narrow walks and hidden spaces, doing laundry and hoarding food and water among collapsed graves, overturned coffins and sites looted by grave robbers.

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are there anymore heroes left?

admin — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 10:26:14 +0000

Please help those children, God said to love your neighbors