World Cup fever in Haiti

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.

Haitians are gripped by World Cup fever. As The World’s Amy Bracken reports, Haitians are watching on donated big screens that have been set up in the Port-au-Prince stadium. But this has caused problems for some of the people who found shelter in the stadium following the earthquake. (Photo: Ian Lovett) Download MP3

• Photo gallery
• World Cup 2010 on The World
• Talking Travel: revisiting Haiti

Haiti update

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.

It’s now nearly five months since Haiti was hit by a devastating earthquake. Reporter Amy Bracken is back in Port au Prince. Marco Werman gets her impressions about progress there since January’s earthquake. (Photo: Amy Bracken) Download MP3

• Amy’s Haiti notebook (March)
• Decentralizing Haiti reconstruction

Recycled trash to fuel Haiti

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.

Before the recent earthquake, Haiti was no stranger to natural disasters. In recent years, thousands of people have been killed by floods and landslides. To understand why the toll is so high, one need look no further than the country’s bald mountains. Haiti has lost about 97 % of its forests. And the main culprit is the nation’s most popular cooking fuel: charcoal. Reporter Amy Bracken looks at one effort to provide a tree-saving alternative: briquettes made from trash. Download MP3 (photo: Amy Bracken)

• View pictures and read the transcript
• Amy Bracken’s Haiti Journal (March)
• Haiti’s traumatized quake survivors

Haiti’s traumatized earthquake survivors

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.

A large number of Haitians are showing up at health clinics with medical symptoms that appear to have no physical cause. Some patients are paralyzed, others blind or deaf. Doctors say the disorders are probably psychosomatic – the result of psychological stress brought on by the earthquake and its aftermath. The World’s Amy Bracken will have more in today’s show. Download MP3 (flickr image BBC World Service)

• Read Amy’s journal from Haiti
• Slideshow: Bear Guerra’s photos from Haiti
• BBC Haiti coverage

Decentralizing Haiti reconstruction

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.

Haitian representatives are meeting with potential donors at the UN in New York today. They’re presenting a report on the physical toll of the January 12 earthquake, as well as a plan for rebuilding. An essential component of that plan involves building infrastructure and creating jobs in Haiti, but outside of Port-au-Prince. Many hope that a popular dream of decentralization will finally be realized. The World’s Amy Bracken has more. Download MP3

• Amy Bracken’s Haiti journal
• Amy’s other Haiti stories

Haiti struggles to rebuild infrastructure

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.

President Barack Obama has asked Congress for $2.8 billion in emergency funds to help post-earthquake reconstruction efforts in Haiti. At least 220,000 people died in the January quake and more than a million lost their homes. The catastrophe took a heavy toll on the infrastructure including the nation’s postal service. Now mailmen are back on the streets but facing enormous challenges. Amy Bracken has our story. Download MP3 (Photo: Amy Bracken)

• Read Amy’s latest notebook entry from Haiti
• Slideshow: Bear Guerra’s photos from Haiti
• Haiti coverage from the BBC

Temporary protected status for Haitians

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.

Haiti’s government estimates that the country will need $11.5 billion to rebuild after the devastating earthquake in January. Although it’s been a terrible tragedy it has also provided a rare opportunity for Haitians who are living in the United States illegally. The federal government is allowing undocumented Haitians to apply for temporary protected status – or TPS. It will allow them to get jobs and come out of the shadows. The World’s Katy Clark recently met some Haitians in the Boston area who were applying for TPS. Download MP3 (Photo: Katy Clark)

• BBC coverage of the earthquake
• USCIS Responds to Haiti Earthquake
• On The World: How to fix Haiti’s economy

Haiti quake opportunity to restore rural ecology?

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.

The January earthquake in Haiti was not as powerful as the one in Chile, but it was much deadlier. Haiti was more vulnerable than Chile, in part because of the environmental degradation in its rural areas. Now, development specialists say that a key to creating a resilient Haiti is to restore the country’s ecological infrastructure. The World’s Marina Giovannelli has our story. (photo: Melinda Miles) Download MP3

• Audio slideshow: Reforesting Haiti
• BBC coverage
• On The World: How to fix Haiti’s economy

How to fix Haiti’s economy

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.

In the aftermath of January’s devastating earthquake there’s a lot of talk about finally getting things right in Haiti, a sense that the opportunity to rebuild means the opportunity to fix what’s been wrong. That’s as true of the economy as anything else. Still many experts are wary of solutions that have been tried and failed in the past, as The World’s Jeb Sharp reports. Download MP3

• BBC coverage of the Haiti quake
• BBC Haiti flickr gallery
• Jeb’s history podcast ‘How we got here’

Haiti restaurant helps earthquake victims

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.

It was a favorite spot for those who wanted to relax with a pizza and beer in Petionville, Haiti. Now it’s more popular than ever, drawing more than a thousand people a day for an all-too-rare free hot lunch. Since the devastating earthquake last month, some local businesses have turned to philanthropy and Muncheez Restaurant is one of them. Katy Clark speaks with restaurant owner Clifford Rouzeau. Download MP3

• Muncheez website
• Muncheez food drive photos on facebook
• Christian Science Monitor story
• Haiti coverage on the BBC

Haiti holds day of mourning

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.

Haiti has been holding a day of national mourning exactly one month after the earthquake struck, killing at least 217,000 people. Haiti’s President Rene Preval vowed that his country will live on. Other prayer services were held across the country, including one at the site of a mass grave outside the capital which is believed to hold tens of thousands of victims. Marco Werman talks with the BBC’s Nick Davis in Haiti. Download MP3 (Photo: Roberto Schmidt/AFP/Getty Images)

• BBC coverage
• On The World: Haiti’s santitation problem
• BBC picture gallery from Haiti

Haiti’s sanitation problem after the quake

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.

As many Haitians settle into life in tent cities that can number into the tens of thousands, water and sanitation have become a critical issue for the health of these communities. Aid organizations and the Haitian government were quick to establish a water supply to some of these tent cities, but as Sabri Ben-Achour reports from Port-au-Prince, sanitation is quite another matter. Download MP3 (Photo: Sabri Ben-Achour)

• Sabri Ben-Achour’s photos from Haiti
• Sabri Ben-Achour on Haitian self-reliance (Jan 26)
• BBC coverage of the Haiti earthquake
• BBC picture gallery from Haiti

Delivering aid in Haiti still difficult

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.

More than 200 international medical relief groups have sent teams to help the people of Haiti after the devastating earthquake. Now, four weeks after the catastrophe, early spring rains threaten to cause landslides and bring about health problems in the makeshift camps where more than half a million people are living. And delivering aid in Haiti continues to be difficult, we get an update from the BBC’s Mike Wooldridge in Port-au-Prince. Download MP3 (AP Photo:Ramon Espinosa)

• BBC coverage
• On The World: Boston Haitian mother reunited with her son
• The Haitian Revolution podcast

Rebuilding Haiti’s job market

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.

Download MP3
The BBC’s Nick Davis reports from Haiti on efforts to create jobs in the quake-stricken nation. Many say job creation is a key part of Haiti’s recovery from last month’s devastating earthquake.

Haiti update

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.

It’s been three weeks since the massive earthquake struck Haiti and residents there are still struggling to find food and shelter. Nevertheless, some aid distribution problems in Haiti have eased. The BBC’s Nick Davis gives us an update from the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince. Download MP3

• BBC coverage
• On The World: Haiti’s child slaves
• In pictures: Haiti quake aftermath