By Aisha Siddiqa Hassim, age 13 Earlier this year, parts of Turkey and Syria faced two catastrophic earthquakes. The combined effects of these earthquakes were disastrous and resulted in the death of over 50,000 people. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is facing criticism over the lack of preparedness and slow response after the earthquakes. The …
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Five years after a 2010 earthquake, which killed 160,000 people and made 1.5 million more homeless, the Haitian people are still suffering.
Cholera has killed 2,500 people in Haiti, where an earthquake struck on January 12, 2010.
As rains roll in, the people of Haiti are still struggling to find shelter, water and food. Read about Haiti’s kids and about how other countries have helped make Haiti so poor.
Learn about Duckens, age 10, and how he and his family were affected by the January 12, 2010 earthquake.
When an earthquake struck Chile on February 27, it was 500 times more powerful than the one that struck Haiti, but a lot fewer people died.
On January 12, a powerful earthquake struck Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, near the capital city of Port-au-Prince. IndyKids provides a unique perspective on Haiti’s recovery.
Everywhere are sheet shelters. In parks, soccer fields, in the parking lot of the TV station, tens of thousands literally in the streets and on sidewalks…
A report from the ground in Haiti, and a timeline of Haiti’s long history of foreign intervention.
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