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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.

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