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...anonymity of the source would help protect informants from retribution. And in Pakistan, the U.S. helped establish the nation's first ever text-messaging system, allowing real-time information exchanges all across the country, according to Mobile Accord's James Eberhard, who has also been instrumental raising donations for Haiti through text messages. (See the top 10 banned books...
Bergin hoped that the course would change the stereotypes students held about Haiti. By exposing them to Haiti’s literature, painting, music and food, she hoped that they would view the country in a different light, particularly after the earthquake: “Especially now, we don’t have to forget what’s happening in Haiti, but we don’t want to forget the beauty of it,” Bergin said...
Natalie E. McBride ’13, who took the course last semester and traces her roots back to Haiti, appreciated Bergin’s desire to debunk stereotypes, such as those about voodooism, which Bergin did by bringing in a voodoo priestess as a guest speaker. And while McBride’s Haitian heritage made the recent earthquake crisis in Haiti hit close to home, she said that taking this course and volunteering in Dorchester made her more “aware...
...TIME's full coverage of the Haiti earthquake...
Read more in the new TIME book Earthquake Haiti: Tragedy and Hope and support TIME?s Haiti relief efforts...