As the poorest state in the Western hemisphere, Haiti has been suffering from a lack of basic resources for many years.
In the town of Croix Des Bouqutes, just outside the capital, 70 per cent of the population is unemployed.
But a group of hundreds of artists have created a community of craftsmen – turning oil steel drums into art – in an effort to change that fact.
Teresa Bo reports.
Haiti’s agircultural sector is considered to be one of the most inefficient in the world. For decades, the United Nations’ World Food Programme (WFP) has been working in the country, trying to improve food prodcution.
But despite its best efforts, hundreds of thousands of Haitians continue to rely on food handouts.
As Teresa Bo reports from Gonaives in Haiti, last year’s devastating hurricane season has only made matters there worse.
Haiti is one of the the poorest countries in the world. One out of eight children there die before they reach the age of five.
Especially vulnerable are disabled children who are abandoned by their parents and left to fend for themselves, but the system
has few resourecs to deal with those in need. Teresa Bo reports from Port-au-Prnice.
People in Haiti are worried that, in the middle of the current hurricane season, history may repeat itself.
Hundreds of people died in mudslides and floods after last years powerful stomrs.
Haiti’s story is just one example of the devastating effects of global warming, particularly in impoverished nations.
Tersea Bo reports.
The rising cost of food is one reason taht Haitians are going hungry. The other is a lack of land to grow crops.
Deforestation has destroyed much of the farmign land once used by Haiti’s rural communities.
Al Jazeera’s Mike Kirsch looks at an environmental porblem that’s further fuelling Haiti’s food crisis.