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Author Curnutte, Mark.

Title A promise in Haiti : a reporter's notes on families and daily lives / Mark Curnutte ; foreword by Kenneth H. Merten, with photographs by the author
Published Nashville, Tenn. : Vanderbilt University Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 206 pages)
Contents Tender lives -- Gonaives -- Walking -- Mother's Day -- Shelter -- Money -- Work -- Flag day -- Night -- Clothing -- Returning -- Food -- June 26/29, 2008 -- A promise in Haiti (my last day in Gonaives) -- Afterword : under the mango tree
Summary Describes a reporter's time living among Haitian families in Gonaives as a volunteer with an aid organization prior to the 2010 earthquake, recalling the strains of their unemployment and making comparisons to the Great Depression
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page 197) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Poor -- Haiti -- Gonaïves
Disasters -- Haiti -- Gonaïves
HISTORY -- General.
HISTORY / Caribbean & West Indies / General
Disasters
Poor
Haiti -- Gonaïves
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021697164
ISBN 9780826517852
0826517854