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  • 'Hope for Haiti Now' earns multi-millions | January 23. 2010 | 18 photos
  • US, UN send more troops to help in Haiti | January 19. 2010 | 8 photos
  • A daunting Haitian challenge | January 15. 2010 | 8 photos
  • Devastation in Haiti | January 12. 2010 | 13 photos
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Haiti: On the Ground Stories

Day Staff Writer Karin Crompton and Photojournalist Tim Martin were on assignment in Haiti, where they covered the struggles of local people and the Haitian Ministry of the Norwich Diocese.

In Haiti, finding strength amid the pain

 February 3, 2010

Port-au-Prince, Haiti - Lanitte Belledente was cooking rice, beans and chicken in the kitchen of Haitian Ministries' Norwich Mission House in Petionville when the first wave of tremors hit. Then a second.

In Haiti, pleas for a bit of dignity

 February 2, 2010

Port-au-Prince, Haiti - Late Monday morning, a line snakes along the side of the Catholic Relief Services offices and across the side street where the offices are located.

Fear remains for Haitians

 February 1, 2010

Port-au-Prince, Haiti - Saintana St.Vil, or Mrs. William Joseph, moved into her house in the mountain town of Morne Hopital on April 24, 2000. A ragged chunk of slate on the ground at the entrance to her two-room concrete hut says so. After Jan. 12, 2010, she may never go back.

Life celebrated despite tragedy

 January 31, 2010

Port-au-Prince, Haiti - After breakfast on Saturday morning, Jean Marie Brutus took a bucket of water and a thin blue rag out to the driveway in front of the house that is temporarily sheltering various staff of Haitian Ministries' Norwich Mission House and their families.

Blog: Assignment Haiti

Karin and Tim also blogged while in Haiti, below are some of their thoughts on daily life in the disaster zone.

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Premium Content Congregations remember earthquake in Haiti

 January 14, 2012

Angelique Similien, center, of Lisbon sings along while seated with her nephew Elie Isaac, right, and her sister Erone Jozile, left, both of Norwich, during a joint service Friday night by youth groups from Peniel Church and the First Haitian...

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Premium Content Service to mark second anniversary of Haiti earthquake

 January 12, 2012

Norwich — To mark the second anniversary of the catastrophic earthquake that struck Haiti, the youth groups of Peniel Church and the First Haitian Baptist Church of Norwich will hold a joint service at 7 p.m.

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Protesters: U.N. out of Haiti

 September 15, 2011

A man argues with police officers during a protest against the U.N. mission in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday. Protesters calling for the withdrawal of U.N. peacekeepers clashed with police outside the earthquake-damaged Haitian National Palace.

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Essex Inspiration for Cross-Cultural Concert in Haiti

 July 27, 2011

The great songwriter Irving Berlin could only play the piano in one key, F sharp. The musicians in Deschapelles, Haiti, had a similar situation: they could only play in B flat-but all that has now changed, thanks to Essex resident...

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Art revives Haitian women's lives, businesses

 July 4, 2011

When the Jan. 12, 2010, earthquake rocked Haiti, the women employed by designer Phelicia Dell were hard at work on their sewing machines. The workshop and machines were destroyed. Worse yet, a chic Petionville showroom that Dell had...

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It’s a Quick Trip Across the Q-Bridge For 200 Arts & Ideas Events

 June 1, 2011

New Haven's International Festival of Arts & Ideas has a lot to celebrate this year.

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Physician says helping Haiti is 'real, practical application of our faith'

 April 30, 2011

In the midst of describing a speech he will give on Sunday about Haiti, Dr. Anthony Alessi had to take a phone call. The Norwich neurologist and medical director of the William W. Backus Hospital was gone for several minutes before clicking back...

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Raising Haiti group to hold annual Fun Run fundraiser

 April 25, 2011

East Lyme - The local medical volunteers group Raising Haiti will host its second annual Fun Run & Charity Walk Saturday at 9 a.m. at McCook Point Park.

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Run, walk to raise money for Haiti work

 April 2, 2011

East Lyme - The local nonprofit organization Raising Haiti, which runs bimonthly medical clinics in Cite Soleil, Haiti, will have its Second Annual Fun Run & Charity Walk on April 30 at McCook Point Park in...

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Friends: Victim ended 'controlling' relationship

 March 23, 2011

"She was a great person. She was a very loving person. She wanted to help people. Her dream was to become a nurse to specifically help people from her country of Haiti."

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