Haitian Earthquake Coverage

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• Delta to Add Non-stop Atlanta--Port au Prince, Haiti Service in April
  An airline spokesman says it's the first direct route between Atlanta and the Haitian city in at least twenty years.
• Atlanta's Haitian Quake Medical Evacuees Re-visited
  Last February, after Haiti's devastating January 12th earthquake, 48 critically injured Haitians and 21 family members were airlifted to Atlanta and sent to area hospitals for treatment. Susan Mittleman caught up with two of the medical evacuees she reported on last year to see how they're doing now... (for more information, visit RRISA.org)
• Ga Tech Professors, Students Gauge Debris Cleanup in Haiti
  A team of researchers and students from Georgia Tech just returned from Haiti. They spent three days observing how Haitians are tackling debris clean-up. WABE's Jim Burress reports.
• Haitian Medical Evacuee Follow-up
  Within weeks of January's devastating earthquake in Haiti, a number of critically injured victims were airlifted to Atlanta-area hospitals for medical treatment. The flights wound down by the end of February. But the road to recovery for many Haitians here is just beginning. Susan Mittleman caught up with two survivors who are slowly taking the next step.
• Shelter Kits from Georgia to Help Haiti Rebuild
  Volunteers in metro Atlanta are busy assembling temporary shelter kits that will soon make their way to Haiti, where earthquake victims will use them to start rebuilding their homes. WABE's Jim Burress reports.
• Critically Injured Haitian Earthqake Victims Arrive in Atlanta
  The road to recovery for some of Haiti's most critically injured earthquake survivors is starting here, in Atlanta. As Susan Mittleman reports, there is an entire national and local operation underway to help these people and their families get the continuing care they need.

• How One Hospital Entices Doctors To Work In Rural America
  Instead of offering big salaries and other perks, the CEO of tiny Ashland Health Clinic, in southwest Kansas, lures physicians with "a job that matters." In addition to meeting a real need on a daily basis in Ashland, doctors also get eight weeks off to do missionary work overseas.
• Mike Pesca's Guide To Super Bowl XLVI
  The New York Giants face the New England Patriots in the NFL Super Bowl XLVI on Sunday. In 2008, the underdog Giants beat the Patriots 17-14. NPRs Mike Pesca preview's the nation's biggest sporting event and talks about what to expect from the 2012 rematch.
• State-Of-The-Art Hospital Offers Hope For Haiti
  A teaching hospital under construction in Haiti will bring cutting-edge technology to a health system with few resources. The project, which will be the country's largest hospital, is being built for a fraction of what it would cost elsewhere and may be a model for international aid.
• 10 Years On, Clergy Abuse Scandal Still Reverberates
  The Boston Globe broke the story of sex abuse within the Catholic Church's Boston diocese, and a systematic cover up, in 2002. Since then, hundreds of victims have come forward with their stories. After resistance, the Church changed course, but many complain it hasn't gone far enough.
• Church Broadcasts Hope; Haitians Flock Post-Quake
  Shalom Church in Port-au-Prince is just a plywood stage under a patchwork of tattered tarps, but its membership has grown rapidly since the devastating earthquake two years ago. The evangelical mission now claims to have more than 50,000 members and one of the most popular radio stations in Haiti.
• The Challenge Of Measuring Relief Aid To Haiti
  U.S. charities have received close to $2 billion to help in Haiti since the earthquake two years ago. But it's not easy to determine exactly how all that money is being spent and what kind of impact it is having.
• Two Years After Quake, Many Haitians Await Aid
  Americans gave more than $1.8 billion to help Haiti after a devastating earthquake ripped through the island nation two years ago. An NPR survey of 12 large charities found that while many still have a lot of money in the bank, the rate of spending has picked up over last year.
• Can Hip-Hop Change The Style Of Politics?
  Lester Spence, associate professor of political science at Johns Hopkins University, discusses his new book titled Stare in the Darkness: The Limits of Hip-hop and Black Politics.
• Post-Quake Giving To Haiti: An Updated Look At Major Charities
  Americans have given more than $1.8 billion to charities since the Jan. 12, 2010 earthquake. Here's a look at how much some of the prominent organizations working there have spent and how much is remaining.