{"id":640420,"date":"2010-01-18T16:20:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-18T21:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:magazine.nd.edu,2005:News\/14402"},"modified":"2010-01-18T16:42:22","modified_gmt":"2010-01-18T21:42:22","slug":"haiti-backgrounder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/640420","title":{"rendered":"Haiti backgrounder"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul id=\"callout\">\n<li>Related Article<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/haitidisaster.nd.edu\/\">ND Response<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Notre Dame Magazine<\/em> has through the years run a number of articles about Haiti, from a crusade and scientific research to eliminate one of the country\u2019s scourges \u2014 elephantiasis, an advanced form of lymphatic filariasis \u2014 to a school where Notre Dame students frequently volunteer to Haiti\u2019s fraught history. We offer these background pieces for those wishing to learn more about the country and Notre Dame&#8217;s work there.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Father Thomas G. Streit, <span class=\"caps\">CSC<\/span><\/strong>, a Notre Dame assistant research professor of biological sciences, has been working in Haiti since 1993 to combat lymphatic filariasis. <a href=\"http:\/\/magazine.nd.edu\/news\/14396-blessed-are-the-healers\">Blessed Are the Healers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Notre Dame scientists<\/strong> have for years investigated the genetics of mosquitoes, to try to stop the diseases they can spread, including malaria and lymphatic filariasis. <a href=\"http:\/\/magazine.nd.edu\/news\/10002\">The Littlest Killers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ND students<\/strong> frequently volunteer at a Catholic school on the outskirts of Port au Prince. They offer <a href=\"http:\/\/magazine.nd.edu\/news\/10285\">A Gift of Hope<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong> on <a href=\"http:\/\/newsblog.projo.com\/2010\/01\/haitian-projects-ri-leader-hea.html\">Louverture Cleary School<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the years, Notre Dame has worked on <strong>several projects in Haiti<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/magazine.nd.edu\/news\/10287-other-notre-dame-initiatives-in-haiti\">Other Notre Dame Initiatives<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the longer story, &#8220;If We Fail To Act,&#8221;  Paul Farmer, M.D., founding director of Partners in Health, wrote about the <strong>history of Haiti<\/strong> in <a href=\"http:\/\/magazine.nd.edu\/news\/14398-haiti-a-nation-undermined\">A Nation Undermined<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A 2006 <strong>Haitian documentary<\/strong> combined the skills of three Notre Dame alums \u2014 director Dan Schnorr \u201805, co-director and editor Justin Brandon \u201904 and executive producer Brian McElroy \u201905 \u2014 to showcase members of a rural Haitian community who have taken the cause of development into their own hands. The film is being screened in its entirety to raise support for earthquake relief efforts. See <a href=\"http:\/\/fondwa.org\/\">The Road to Fondwa<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Related Article ND Response Notre Dame Magazine has through the years run a number of articles about Haiti, from a crusade and scientific research to eliminate one of the country\u2019s scourges \u2014 elephantiasis, an advanced form of lymphatic filariasis \u2014 to a school where Notre Dame students frequently volunteer to Haiti\u2019s fraught history. We offer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2711,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-640420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2GBm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2711"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=640420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}