New Blog of AMURT-Haiti with videos, photos ans stories from the field www.amurtayiti.wordpress.com AMURT-Haiti volunteers work in the most diverse conditions -- from field assessment joining the village konbits (traditional Haitian work sessions based on solidarity and cooperation to build collective infrastructure) to leading the project operations and the coordination with the work of dozens of local and global organizations active in the country. At every step we live and work side by side with the community, learning and exchanging our experiences and values. From this perspective the volunteers from AMURT-Haiti have created a NEW BLOG -- www.amurtayiti.wordpress.com -- to share the news from the current relief disaster efforts in Gonaives and the Northwest of the Artibonite region. This new space will also include updates on the upcoming projects and impressions from the inside rural and urban reality of Haiti. Videos, photos and personal stories will help to illustrate the rich Haitian humanity mixed with oppressing social and environmental circumstances. _______________________________________________________________________________ AMURT-Haiti Coordinator Speaking at the Rotary International Clean Water Summit Dec. 14, Port-au-Prince [AMHaitiPress] AMURT-Haiti Programs Coordinator Demeter Rusafov was invited as a panel speaker to the 2007 Rotary International Clean Water Summit in Port-au-Prince. To read the presentation "Project Sustainability and the Integrated Community Entrepreneurship Model" please click HERE. _______________________________________________________________________________ AlterPresse on AMURT-Haiti - An Example of Unbiased Journalism? Dec. 2, Port-au-Prince [AMHaitiPress] Following their field evaluation of AMURT-Haiti's projects on November 29, a high level Canadian government delegation has issued a special Report, in response to an AlterPresse article slandering AMURT. MORE ________________________________________________________________________________ AMURT-Haiti - THE THIRD LARGEST PARTNER OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM (WFP) IN HAITI Nov. 22, Port-au-Prince [AMHaitiPress] A recent Haiti Programs Report published by the World Food Program includes its field assessment of AMURT's activities in Haiti, revealing that the organization has become its third largest Food-for-Work implementation partner in the country, receiving 25% of its total available food budget. The report describes the efforts of AMURT to rehabilitate the crippled salt industry in Haiti by not merely rehabilitating existing conventional basins, but also by establishing an innovative model of community-managed modern salt production and iodization facility in the area of Anse Rouge. Click here to upload the document (in French).