Reporting on Haiti After the Earthquake

Fellows Spring 2011

By Jenny Asarnow

July 28, 2011

Also aired on KUOW Public Radio


Dr. Paul Farmer began Partners in Health in Haiti more than three decades ago with the mission of improving infrastructure to alleviate poverty and providing health care in cooperation with the government. Through chance or fate, Farmer and his family traveled to Rwanda the morning before the earthquake struck the island in January 2010.

Dr. Farmer .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) with Steven Scher on KUOW Public Radio's "Weekday." Jenny Asarnow contributed reporting to this show from her recent Fellowship.

Jenny Asarnow reported from Haiti as a fellow with the International Reporting Project (IRP), an independent journalism program in Washington, D.C.