Articles by Deepa Panchang
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“Waiting for Helicopters?” Cholera, Prejudice, and the Right to Water in Haiti (Part II)
Deepa Panchang – Other Worlds,
9 Jul 2012
“‘Where you stand,’ goes an old Haitian proverb, ‘depends on where you sit.’ This article, the second in a series, will examine aid workers’ stereotypes and prejudices about residents of displacement camps in post-earthquake Haiti, stemming from acute disconnects between NGOs and the people they are there to work with. We explore how these misperceptions have perpetuated deliberate decisions to deny water and sanitation services to desperate survivors.”
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Deepa Panchang, Other Worlds – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2012
Scientists have shown that the cholera pathogen came to Haiti with foreign UN troops who carried the bacteria in their bodies, and whose military base was dumping its sewage into a nearby river. The imported disease has claimed more than 7,000 lives and continues to ravage communities across Haiti… despite billions in post-earthquake aid dollars.
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Deepa Panchang – Toward Freedom,
13 Feb 2012
Deutsche Bank and the Clinton Foundation brought on board a joint team from Harvard University and MIT to help design housing strategy for the ‘exemplar’ project. John McAslan & Partners, a British architecture firm, was engaged to help design a “comprehensive community development strategy.” Yet there was no community; the Harvard-MIT design team was designing according to its own ideas, in a vacuum, from Cambridge, Massachusetts. As of October 2011, the team had spent exactly one afternoon meeting with existing residents in Zoranje.
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