A country vulnerable to natural disasters and plagued by political instability and corruption, Haiti was estimated to have a poverty rate of 52.3% percent in 2021 and ranked 179 out of 180 in the UN’s 2020 Human Development Index. Haiti’s ...
LOS ANGELES — Just a few weeks ago, a 7.2 magnitude earthquake devastated Haiti’s southwestern region. The survivors, still burying the dead and mourning the lost, are in desperate need of aid that is just barely trickling into the country. ...