Santa Cruz Sentinel, February 28, 2010.
Tony Hoffman touched down in Haiti on Feb 16, four weeks after a magnitude 7.0 earthquake devastated the nation.
“Haitians are resilient, hopeful, hard-working people,” Hoffman said over Skype Chat on Friday. “They are getting exhausted and worn out, but every day I see people working to care for themselves and their families, with no pay, little food, inadequate shelter and water.”
Hoffmann, a child psychologist and lecturer at UC Santa Cruz, is staying at a displacement camp called Terraine D’Acra, located on top of a garbage dump and complete with open sewage flows. Read more >