[net-gold] Blogging About Haiti: Arikia Millikan's Blog
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:37:09 -0500 (EST)
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Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 18:21:16 -0000
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Subject: [Net-Gold] Blogging About Haiti: Arikia Millikan's Blog
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Blogging About Haiti:
Arikia Millikan's Blog
One of my college roommates lived and
worked in Haiti for twenty plus years.
Her daughter, Arikia, is the same age
as my daughter. Until this past summer
(2009) Arikia had never met her father,
a Haitian man, nor had she met her
Haitian half-sister. But in 2009 she
visited them and got to know the Haitian
part of her family. Her mother had always
told her stories, shown her photos of
Haiti and kept track of her father and
his life.
Arikia now has a blog that provides some
personal insight about Haiti and how things
are, how things work there. Her mother,
someone who knows the ins and outs of
Haitian life intimately, is fluent in
Creole (Kreyol), recently emailed that she
is going to buy some Haitian manufactured
paint and pay a friend of hers to hire
Haitians to paint the hotel he manages, one
that is still in good shape. That way she
knows for sure that the money she donates
goes to support an up and running Haitian
industry and to pay Haitians, who
desperately need the dignity of working for
pay, to begin to rebuild their country.
She feels this is the only way that donated
funds will ever reach those in most need.
Arikia is a University of Michigan graduate,
a former editor of The Michigan Daily, who
has been living and working in New York City,
is currently doing research for Nathan
Silver's forthcoming book that has something
to do with environment and the economy.
Arikia's blog has lots of good information
on Haiti, the quake, what's really happening
there from someone who very personally knows
the situation, the history, the socio-economic
structure of Haiti. It is refreshingly the
point of view of a young person.
Here is Arikia Millikan's blog:
<http://millikandaily.com/>
- Norma Curry
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