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haiti Articles

• Mission MANNA: Local doctors share story of their work in Haiti

  Lorin Mallorie | 12/16/2010

  In our Dec. 8 issue, UNCA student Lorin Mallorie shared the story of local doctors and volunteers helping Haiti in its latest health crisis. Click through to view a video interview with some of those volunteers, including Asheville's own Dr. Derek Dephouse.

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• Selfless acts

  

  Lorin Mallorie | 12/08/2010

  Asheville volunteers bring health care to Haiti

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• Lorin Mallorie in Haiti: Widespread fear, anger over election results

  

  Lorin Mallorie | 11/30/2010

  Protests broke out just hours into voting, with accusations of ballot tampering by the current government and their favored candidate, Jude Celestine and his party — and I found myself once again fleeing Petionville, just ahead of angry protestors ...

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• Protests and turmoil erupt in Haiti — Twitter-based coverage from Lorin Mallorie

  Lorin Mallorie | 11/18/2010

  Asheville-based journalist Lorin Mallorie posted a few Twitter observations from Haiti regarding the breakdown of order on Nov. 18.

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• Lorin Mallorie in Haiti: Cholera riots in the north, panic in Commune Anse Rouge

  Lorin Mallorie | 11/17/2010

  Cholera has reached Commune Anse Rouge. “Five more people have died since I last wrote you,” Amber Munger e-mailed me on Monday, Nov. 15. ... Few understand cholera, and so anyone who gets it has an automatic death sentence, even though it could be simply treated with hydration formula, she said.

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• Lorin Mallorie in Haiti: Hurricane Tomas, voodoo and cholera

  

  Lorin Mallorie | 11/11/2010

  All eyes gaze up at the sky, nervously, as the gray creeps across like a demon. Hurricane Tomas comes early. For those who can leave, it is a mass exodus up the mountain: Traffic, fear and uncertainty.

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• Love in the Time of Cholera: Amber Munger's call for proactive help

  

  Lorin Mallorie | 10/28/2010

  “This cholera epidemic highlights the importance of sanitation,” Munger said. Residents in La Sous are asking for composting toilets, a sustainable solution to the situations that cause epidemics like cholera.

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• Diary of a journey: Asheville's Mission Manna team in Haiti (with ongoing coverage via Twitter)

  

  Jeff Fobes | 10/22/2010

  "Arrived Montrouis late last night after dark drive from Port au Prince. Good to be here!" was the word Saturday night from a group of Asheville doctors, nurses and volunteers from Mission Manna who fly regularly to Haiti to provide health services. We see a lot of extremes in Haiti. Beautiful kids living in dire poverty, for example. Last night we saw a rainbow on one side of the mountain, and a breath-taking sunset on the other.

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• Lorin Mallorie in Haiti: There's nothing more hopeful than the smile of a child

  

  Lorin Mallorie | 09/30/2010

  With the depravity and desperation of Port-au-Prince’s homeless increasing every day, there is nothing more hopeful than the smile of a happy Haitian child in a safe and loving environment.

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• Haiti: from volunteer health-care providers' points of view

  Webmaster | 09/07/2010

  Coverage (via Twitter) of tonight's (Sept. 7) panel presentation on Haiti as seen by medical volunteers from Asheville's Mission Manna and other relief groups.

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