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May/June 2007
A woman’s quest on the
Thailand-Burma border
Paul Farmer on
equity in health care
Planting
Hope inHaiti
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By Sherri Nelson | WORLD
Alephene Joseph plants cassava and banana leaves in
a safe and terraced area in the village of Moulin, Haiti.
MOULIN, HAITI— Alphene Joseph wearily glances at the overcas
sky and says, “This is a dangerous place to live during the ra
He ears rain, oddly enough or someone living on a Caribb
island. Beads o sweat track down his dark ace, w
is lined like the ravaged mountainsides. Two years
Tropical Storm Jeanne wreaked havoc in Haiti, o
scarring the land and the people. Joseph lost his
amily’s only sources o ood—a garden and livest
to the ooding.
Joseph clasps his hands together and sadly looks
ground. “Everywhere, poverty and hunger. It was
amine came over the area. We had nothing to ea
Not a amine, but a ury. In September 2004, Jeanne, which
became a Category 3 hurricane, claimed the lives o at least
Haitians and let an estimated 300,000 people homeless. Mo
o those aected lived in the coastal area o Gonaives, an ur
center cupped by the Arbonite Mountains, which Alphene Jo
calls home.
Planting Hope in Hait
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