Vermont Public Radio: Earthquake in Haiti 2010
VPR's coverage of the 2010 Earthquake in Haiti.
Watch the Audio Slideshow "Healing Haiti" by Patrick Raycraft.
A massive earthquake devastated Haiti a year ago today. A few months after the quake, American diplomatic officials stepped in to help Haitian students continue their educations at U.S. schools. Three students were placed at Burr and Burton Academy in Manchester. One of them graduated last year. But two remain in Manchester.
VPR's Jane Lindholm talks with humanitarian aid workers about the mid to long-term effects of the earthquake in Haiti and what role Vermotners and outside organizations are playing in the ongoing recovery process.
We check in with Vermonters who've gone to Haiti about the longterm after-effects of the earthquake. And VPR's Bob Kinzel previews the week ahead in the Vermont Legislature as the budget and other key bills advance.
We spoke with Vermont midwife Katherine Bramhall several years ago, after a natural disaster-the tsunami that ravaged Bali in December of 2004. Katherine Bramhall explains why a birthing clinic is so important in a place like Haiti that's thrown into sudden and unexpected chaos.
As doctors and relief groups tend to the injured from the Haiti earthquake, a New Hampshire company is helping collect data on people who have lost limbs after being trapped in the rubble.
Dartmouth College says it will accept a group of Haitian students whose education has been interrupted by the devastating earthquake there.
Images of earthquake-ravaged Haiti have inspired kids in schools all over the country to find ways to help. At Green Street School in Brattleboro, a partnership with a school in Haiti adds a personal connection to the relief effort.
As recovery operations continue after the devastating earthquake in Haiti, a local news team from the Upper Valley is following events on the ground.
What started as an all-nighter at Dartmouth College has grown into a fundraising campaign that's raised more than $130,000 for Haiti's earthquake victims and become a model for other campuses around the country.
Commentator Bill Seamans wonders if the tragedy in Haiti could lead to another foreign policy quagmire for the United States.
A second team of doctors from Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center is headed to Haiti to help earthquake survivors.




