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19 teens learn how to do news High school journalists spent three weeks this July on the University of Miami campus reporting and writing on the impact the Jan. 12 earthquake in Haiti had on the Haitian-American community in South Florida. They met Haitians who had to leave Haiti because their
Read Full StoryCatastrophes often scar and stress those who cover news Palm Beach Post photographer Lannis Waters saw a father weeping at the college the man’s daughter once attended. The girl had perished just hours earlier beneath its walls during the massive Jan. 12 earthquake in Haiti. The grieving bec
Read Full StoryNew World graduate has a unique palette Asser Saint-Val’s art is as unique as his painting materials. Take sugar. Most people use it to sweeten tea or coffee. Saint-Val spreads sugar granules on his canvases to sweeten his artful creations with texture. That is just the beginning. S
Read Full StoryHaitian students adapt to schools, culture in America On Jan. 12, David Baron was visiting a school in Port-au-Prince when student Steeve Simbert asked him for help revising an essay. In a split second, they found themselves holding each other as the earth shook. Today, the student and tea
Read Full StorySix months after the earthquake, Haiti is on long road to recovery Giving up hope on Haiti is just not an option for many in South Florida, even six months after a massive earthquake that killed nearly 300,000 people there. Although 700 miles separate Port-au-Prince, Haiti from South Florida,
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19 teens learn how to do news High school journalists spent three weeks this July on the University of Miami campus reporting and writing on the impact the Jan. 12 earthquake in Haiti had on the Haitian-American community in South Florida. They met Haitians who had to leave ...
Roberto Portal, Miami Killian Senior High
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Local responders treated hundreds Nate Lasseur, a firefighter, was one of the first people to show up in Port-au-Prince after the Jan. 12 earthquake. As a Haitian American, that experience left him wanting to do more. Lasseur is like many of the people who responded to Hai ...
Armand Sepulveda, Miramar High School
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Local volunteers use the Internet to tell Haiti story The first horrific images showed collapsed buildings and dust-caked rescuers pulling the trapped from the rubble. Tod Landess knew he had to do something; this was, after all, his wife Yanick’s beloved homeland of Haiti, ...
Richard Gomez, Felix Varela Senior High
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Immigrants get 18-month extension to work in states Marie Claude Pierre Louis’ family already faced tough financial times when she received a $2,000 hospital bill from her nephew’s injury in an accident. Her sister, Lina Vermeille, helped her apply for Temporary Protected ...
Jonathan Gonzalez, Southridge Senior High
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55,000 people in the balance amid political struggle in U.S. Thousands of Haitians living amid the rubble in Haiti six months after the Jan. 12 earthquake and whose requests for visas to come to the United States to join family members have been approved should have their case ...
Kristy Shore, John I. Leonard High School
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