Changing the world one person at a time

So when a Doylestown church raises about $50,000 a year, the results are downright miraculous. For the last several years, Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church has been running a Haitian ministry to provide medical care, clean water, educational opportunities and other basic essentials to residents living in a slum in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince. And Our Lady of Mount Carmel manages to ...

Special Report AIDS in the Caribbean

AIDS is sweeping the islands of the Caribbean. The disease is spreading at such an alarming rate, that it ranks second to sub-Saharan Africa in the percentage of adults infected. The spread of AIDS in the Caribbean raises questions about poverty, equality, politics and economics. As a whole, it represents a human disaster we cannot ...

RFK Center Releases Documents Outlining US Actions to Block Life-saving Funds to Haiti

RFK Memorial Center for Human Rights and 2002 RFK Award recipient, Loune Viaud of Zamni Lasante, release U.S. Department of Treasury documents revealing that the U.S. and the Inter-American Development Bank deliberately obstructed $146 million in approved IDB financing. WASHINGTON - August 4 - The Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Center for Human Rights and Zamni Lasante released internal U.S. ...

10 children rescued from Haitian human smugglers

Authorities in the Dominican Republic have rescued 10 children smuggled from Haiti, the Special Terrestrial Border Security Unit (Cesfront) said Wednesday.Cesfront officials said a Haitian citizen who had transported the children aged between 4 and 9 had managed to escape after noticing the presence of soldiers in the province of Dajabon bordering Haiti.According to the children's ...