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Last Updated 19 January, 2008

Want to know more about the plight of the poor in the third world, and especially about our pilgrimage to Haiti? Here are some links that I hope you'll find informative.

Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Jewel Doug Editorial Fr. Todd	A reporter and a photographer from the Houma Daily Courier (our local newspaper, a New York Times affiliate) made the trip with us. The article by Jewel Bush and the photographs by Doug Keese were superb. Click the links at left to read each day's story; you can also click on their names to read personal reactions by Doug Keese and Jewel Bush as well as an Editorial and a column by Fr. Will Todd.
Food for the Poor	Food for the Poor, Inc., includes lots of basic information about Haiti, plus lots of opportunities for you to help. Please click here to make donations.
	The Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel was honored for its superb online presentation on Witness to an Epidemic: Aids in the Caribbean, with an emphasis on the problem in Haiti.
The World Bank	Read statistics about Haiti and The World Bank's efforts there. View their Country At A Glance profile of Haiti (Adobe Acrobat Reader required.)
The CIA World Fact Book	Information about Haiti courtesy of the U. S. Central Intelligence Agency's Fact Book.
U. S. Library of Congress Country Study	Information on Haiti from the U. S. Library of Congress's collection of County Studies.
The History of Haiti	A commercial site, includes links to Haitian art.
	A charitable organization raising funds for relief efforts in Haiti.
	Peace Brigade International, working for nonviolent solutions to poverty and human rights violations in the third world. The Haiti Project is closed now, but you can read the results.

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