Haiti’s countryside Trou Du Nord may hold the key to relieving it from centuries of poverty, disaster and disease: There is gold hidden in its hills — and silver and copper, too.
A flurry of exploratory drilling in the past year has found precious metals worth potentially $20 billion deep below the tropical ridges in the [...]

(CNN) – To call Mia Love a minority is an understatement. She’s a black woman who won an upset primary race to become the Republican candidate in Utah’s 4th Congressional District. If elected, she’d be the first black Republican congresswoman in the House of Representatives.
Love, who has attracted lots of national Republican support, also stands [...]

Last week president Martelly say “The Haitian woman is the foundation of our society” so we wanted to run this article again to continue to bring to light the plight so many Haitian girls in Haiti.
The earthquake that struck Haiti on two years ago, left many thousands of children orphaned, lost or separated from their [...]

Friend of Haiti in NY and a partner of Haitienne Magazine just came back with some fantastic photos from their recent trip to Haiti last week. Michelle Kalil one of the key people in Friend of Haiti in NY organization, is doing such a great jobs to make the people of Fond Verrette, Fond de [...]

Haitienne Magazine contributor and staff Kristina Renee in Kuantan Pahang Malaysia Teaching English in Malysia under Fulbright Program. We are so proud of her, and wanted to share this program with our Haitienne  readers.
The Fulbright Program is the U.S. government’s flagship international educational exchange program
Sponsored by the United States Department of State, the Fulbright Program provides [...]

[ January 25, 2012; 5:30 pm to 8:30 pm. ]

By Associated Press -
Haitian President Michel Martelly said Friday he will host Oprah Winfrey when she visits the Caribbean nation.
In an interview with The Associated Press, the Haiti leader said he would like to see Winfrey promote the troubled nation’s lesser known attributes to outside investors as it struggles to recover from the 2010 earthquake [...]

The University of Notre Dame Haiti Program will spend less money to light and power its operations thanks to the addition of 16 solar panels, the work of a non-for-profit foundation led by two 1985 Notre Dame graduates.
The Let’s Share the Sun Foundation, based in Troy, N.Y., completed the second phase of a solar installation [...]

The Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs welcomed the first-ever group of Youth Ambassadors from Haiti to the United States on August 7. For three weeks, 20 Haitian high school students will travel to New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Washington, D.C. where they will meet with their U.S. peers, live with [...]

MAPLAT, Haiti (AP) — I went to Haiti last year after the earthquake, driven by an excited but vague notion of doing some good in a hurting country.
I went again this year with my eyes open a little wider, not jaded exactly but aware of why some people view these volunteer trips with justified skepticism.
Haiti [...]