Miami Herald, The (FL)
2004-06-27
Section: Neighbors BC
Edition: Final
Page: 4MB

While most kids her age only compose essays and poems as homework assignments, Sara Berlin is already the author and publisher of a book that promotes political activism.

Haitian Children Are Kids Too!, a 28-page booklet, conveys the plight of Haitian children who immigrate to America. Sara, a 12-year-old who lives in North Miami Beach, was first inspired to take up the cause after attending a fundraiser for People for the American Way, a national civil rights group, with her father Louis Berlin last year. The event featured an exhibition of photographs, and she saw one of a boy holding a sign that read ``Haitian Children are Kids Too!''

Read more: Teen's Booklet Helps Haitian Children

The Miami Herald
2004-03-29
Section: Front
Edition: Final
Page: 5A

Despite the stealing of ambulances by thugs during the recent violence, despite experts' saying AIDS cannot be fought effectively in poor, rural settings, prominent AIDS fighters said Sunday there's good news from Haiti.

While AIDS still claims 30,000 lives a year in Haiti and has left 200,000 children orphaned, innovative treatment and prevention programs have cut Haiti's HIV rate by 50 percent since 1993, Dr. Jean Pape, of the Cornell Weill Medical College and director of Les Centres Gheskio in Haiti, told the Naitonal HIV/AIDS Update Conference in Miami on Sunday. A HUMAN RIGHT

Read more: AIDS Fighters Hear Good News From Haiti

The Miami Herald
2003-11-22
Section: Tropical Life
Edition: Final
Page: 1E

Forty hours a week, Barbara Williams' workplace is in the Goulds office of the Miami-Dade Community Action Agency, where she helps people in difficult circumstances become self-sufficient. The rest of the time, seven days a week, her green-and-white house near Coconut Grove's Armbrister Park is a kind of satellite office for those who find themselves at the end of their resources - physical, emotional or spiritual.

Read more: She's Got a Mighty Full House - And Heart Full of Charity

The Miami Herald
2003-12-03
Section: Front
Edition: Final
Page: 20A

After walking a muddy path between two sugar-cane fields, University of Miami President Donna Shalala on Tuesday crouched down to talk to spindly thin patients and leaned over desks to quiz young nurses in this Haitian hamlet.

The former Health and Human Services secretary strode in and out of the labs, pediatrics wards and exam rooms during a whirlwind visit to the Bon Sauver Hospital in Canges and the Thomonde Health Center, both in Haiti's central plateau. ``I know a lot about rural health and rural health clinics,'' said Shalala, a one-time Peace Corps volunteer in Iran and Cabinet member in the Clinton administration. ``As secretary I traveled the world, although I never made it to Haiti.''

Read more: In Rural Haiti, Shalala Views a Pioneering Effort on AIDS