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• NEWS_POSTED_BY: Haiti Place
• NEWS_POSTED_ON: Jun 02, 2015
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• Category : General News
• Description : Irish Examiner
  Tuesday, June 02, 2015
  By Sean Dunne
• Location : Haiti
• Website : http://www.irishexaminer.com/viewpoints/analysis/five-years-after-the-earthquake-haiti-is-a-recovering-but-broken-country-33419

Overview

• Journalist Sean Dunne visited Haiti to see how it and its people are recovering five years after an earthquake devastated the country.
  
  In January 2010, Haiti was struck with by one of the most devastating earthquakes in recent history, which killed more than 230,000 people, injured 300,000 others, and left 2.1 million people homeless.
  
  The earthquake compounded the already huge development challenges faced by this country with some 80% of the population living below the poverty line.
  
  I travelled to Haiti after being named as a 2014 recipient of the Simon Cumbers Media Fund in Ireland. The fund was set up in memory of Simon Cumbers, an Irish journalist who was murdered in Saudi Arabia in 2004.
  
  The aim of the fund is to promote better quality media coverage of development issues in the Irish media and it was a huge honour to be selected by the fund so early in my career as a journalist to travel to Haiti.
  
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