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Header Image: Detail from Edouard Duval-Carrie’s painting “Little Crippled Haiti,” which you can read about here.

This blog is part of the Duke University course “Haitian Creole for Haitian Recovery,” which will provide those planning to travel to Haiti to help in relief efforts with an introduction to Haitian Creole and Haitian society and culture. The course was created and is taught by by Professor Deborah Jenson and graduate students Reginald Patterson and Laura Wagner.

You can read a description of the course here.

The Chronicle of Higher Education published a piece about this initiative, and NBC News aired a short segment about it as well. The course was also discussed on NPR’s Marketplace.

You can hear about Laura Wagner’s experience of the Haiti earthquake here and read about it in her essay for the online magazine Salon here.

And here are a series of videos in Kreyol about how to build a WordPress Blog, like this one…

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