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Haiti's many challenges reveal the difficulties of humanitarian work
In a perfect world, distributions of humanitarian aid after a major disaster would occur without a hitch. Everything would be orderly, and proceed with due precision.

Haiti: After basics, many survivors need post-trauma care
Marie Sylsalve cradled her 9-day-old son, McAnley, and reflected on three weeks that have taken an almost incomprehensible toll. Sylsalve last saw her husband, Mackenson Andre, in the moments immediately following the 12 January earthquake. The family's home was destroyed and Sylsalve saw a wall fall on Andre. She presumes he is dead it has been three weeks now.

Haiti: Food is key, now and into the future
Though feeding programs appear to be going more smoothly over the last several days, CWS staffer Chris Herlinger in Port-au-Prince says that concerns about both short-term and long-term food security remain major worries.

Haiti: We are accountable to the survivors, says a response leader
As she waited in a food distribution line late last week, Marie Therese, newly widowed and bereaved, patient but tired, tersely summed up Haiti's current plight. Though thankful for the assistance from CWS and the ACT Alliance reaching her and others in the village of Gressier, Therese, 51, said: "It's like we're in a desert."

"Tithe Wall Street bonuses for Haiti" is rising call and web campaign from CWS
As a rising wave calling for complete debt relief for Haiti is breaking even on the floors of Davos this week, the head of global humanitarian agency Church World Service this morning called for Wall Street's financial industry leaders to tithe their bonuses for the reconstruction of Haiti following the earthquake disaster that killed more than 100,000 people and destroyed much of Port-au-Prince and the country's fragilely functioning infrastructure.