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Current AffairsCzech NGO People in Need on situation in Haiti one year on
January 12 marks the first anniversary since a devastating earthquake
struck Haiti, killing 230,000 people and injuring 300,000 others. A year
on, major difficulties remain: 800,000 people continue to live in temporary
camps and the country has suffered additional misery: political instability
along with flooding and disease. More
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via the Amazon Kindle reader, shortwave listening memories from China,
response to a Letter from Prague. Listeners quoted: Bob Boundy, David
Eldridge, Chun-Quan Meng, Brack Brown. More
Current AffairsCzechs answer call to help flood stricken Pakistan
Although the Czech Republic has been hit by it own floods, the country
responded fast to the much greater inundation in Pakistan. We look at the
Czech aid effort so far.
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Current AffairsPrague Zoo launches new fund-raising project to protect gorillas in the wild
Prague Zoo recently launched a new project to raise money for the
protection of gorillas in Africa. It is raising money by collecting old
mobile phones from visitors and selling them to a recycling company. The
profit will be used for a UNESCO-listed gorilla-breeding reserve in the
western African state of Cameroon.
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Current AffairsCzech humanitarian worker in Haiti safely recovered after five-day abduction
There are only a handful of Czech humanitarian aid workers in Haiti; on
Monday it emerged that one of them had been kidnapped last week and held
for seven days. The aid organisation in question, the French-based Doctors
without Borders, has said that one Czech and one Belgian worker were safely
returned on Sunday, but has so far declined to shed more light on their
six-day ordeal, which is bound to change the way aid agencies work in the
earthquake-stricken country.
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PanoramaOutlook for Haiti extremely bleak, says author of only Czech history of troubled Caribbean state
Almost exactly a month ago, on January 12, the already impoverished Haiti
was hit by a devastating earthquake that killed an estimated 230,000 people
and left hundreds of thousands more without shelter. Anthropologist and
historian Markéta Křížová is the author of the only history of Haiti
in Czech, and has been following recent events there keenly. This week we
discussed the situation in the country and the outlook for the future. But
first I asked Křížová how often she had been to Haiti when preparing
her book.
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Current AffairsHaiti relief effort needs more co-ordination, says Czech Radio man after stint in Port-au-Prince
Over two weeks after Haiti was hit by a devastating earthquake, the
situation in the country remains one of the world’s biggest news stories,
with aid organisations and soldiers struggling to distribute food, water
and medical care to many hundreds of thousands of people who have been left
homeless. Czech Radio journalist Pavel Polák arrived in Haiti four days
after the earthquake and reported on the situation there for over a week.
After his return to Prague, I spoke to Polák about his experiences.
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