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Dates: during 2010-2019
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...aiding with temporary relief efforts. To do this, the administration should create a prize program named HarvardforHumanity. Modeled after the Harvard Catalyst and InnoCentive Prize for Innovation, HarvardforHumanity would be a prize competition, soliciting both answers and questions to different challenges with a focus on seeking solutions to humanitarian problems throughout the world...

Author: By REXHEP DOLLAKU | Title: HarvardforHumanity | 2/25/2010 | See Source »

...Harvard, but it will also attract the right attention. Rather than being in the news for huge drops in its endowment, Harvard could be in the news for finding a new way to deliver supplies to disaster stricken areas. Most importantly, however, HarvardforHumanity positions Harvard as a leader in humanitarian ideals. As a premier research institute and university, Harvard has clearly set itself a goal to advance human knowledge. But in translating that goal to undergraduate education, perhaps we are aiming too low by just educating the next generation of humanitarian leaders. Harvard students come up with innovative and ingenious...

Author: By REXHEP DOLLAKU | Title: HarvardforHumanity | 2/25/2010 | See Source »

...plastic sheeting (which those agencies now say is more practical than tents). Sanitation is even scarcer, causing health officials to raise dire warnings about widespread disease. Amid increasing Haitian anger and desperation, the Washington Post reported last week that the head of the U.N.'s Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs sent an e-mail to staff saying he was "disappointed" by their performance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Haiti PM: We Can Rise Out of Our Postquake Squalor | 2/22/2010 | See Source »

...Harvard Humanitarian Initiative—which provides training for disaster relief—helped to build the hospital and find funding for its construction, according to HHI Co-Director Michael J. VanRooyen...

Author: By Araba A. Appiagyei-Dankah, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Duo Builds Hospital in Haiti | 2/19/2010 | See Source »

...missionaries, who insisted that they were doing humanitarian work, were formally charged with kidnapping earlier this month. But lawyers for the eight missionaries who were released on Wednesday say they're confident that those charges will be dropped. (The missionaries were freed without bond and are required to return to Haiti only if asked by a judge in order to answer further questions.) The missionaries' Dominican legal adviser, Jorge Puello, is wanted in both the U.S. and El Salvador on human-smuggling charges. (He denies the accusations.) In an interview with TIME, Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNICEF Seeks to Keep Kids Out of Haiti Orphanages | 2/18/2010 | See Source »

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