Barron’s: How to Wisely Give Humanitarian Aid by Jonathan Katz Humanitarian aid has developed a bad reputation in recent years. When an earthquake ravaged southern Haiti in January 2010, leaving an estimated 316,000 dead, $9 billion was committed for...
“The Wounds of a Nation Still Bleed” Amy Wilentz’s ‘Farewell, Fred Voodoo: A Letter From Haiti’ Review by Michiko Kakutani “One heroine Ms. Wilentz singles out for praise in these pages is Dr. Megan Coffee of Maplewood, N.J., who was...
A World of Its Own: Farewell Fred Voodoo reviewed by Ben Fountain “As Wilentz says of the American doctor Megan Coffee, ‘She lets Haiti teach her how to deal with Haiti.’ The Dr. Coffees of the world never stop...
Haiti: Three Years Later A conversation on Haiti from the eyes of Amy Wilentz and Laurent DuBois, with mention of Ti Kay’s work.
Jonathan Katz writes of the challenges in Haiti, as the titles says of “How the world came to save Haiti and left behind a disaster”. He describes how large organizations were not always able to meet the needs of those...