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Cultural Competency: A Student's Examination Of Haiti, Heidi Dotson
Cultural Competency: A Student's Examination Of Haiti, Heidi Dotson
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Cultural Competency: A Student’s Examination of Haiti
Heidi Dotson
Faculty Sponsor: Gail Faris, Women’s Center
On January 12, 2010 the world watched as a 7.0 milliwatt earthquake brought Haiti to her knees. It did not take long before the international community had arrived to help Haiti rise from the rubble. On October 21, 2010 the Center for Disease Control confirmed a cholera epidemic in Haiti. One year after the earthquake, only five percent of the rubble had been cleared, and more than one million Haitians were living as refugees in “temporary” tents. Watching all of this from my “temporary” beach …