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Actor Sean Penn attends the 2nd Annual Sean Penn and Friends Help Haiti Home Gala benefiting J/P HRO presented by Giorgio Armani at Montage Hotel on January 12, 2013 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Imeh Akpanudosen/Getty Images)

Sean Penn's Haiti charity receives $8.75 million

Associated Press
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - An aid group run by Hollywood actor Sean Penn announced Tuesday it is receiving $8.75 million from the World Bank to help move Haitians off of a golf course where many have been living since the January 2010 earthquake...
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Triple-jumper Samyr Laine looks to restore hope in Haiti

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Triple-jumper Samyr Laine could become just the second Haitian to win an individual Olympic medal in the country's history...
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Haiti still ailing from child 'slavery' epidemic

Karen Keller, Jennifer Weiss
theGRIO VIDEO - Before the earthquake, child servants lived and worked in Port-au-Prince's homes. Today, many, like Rose Manette, serve their masters in tents...
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Reporter's notebook: The 'Dyaspora' feels your pain

Marlie Hall
DISPATCH - Homeless earthquake victims formed a massive line that started at the restaurant's front door, cued around the corner and ended all the way up the block...
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Restaurant owner serves up relief for fellow Haitians

Marlie Hall
VIDEO - Muncheez was the hottest hangout in town before Haiti's deadly earthquake, and in a way, it still is...
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Port-au-Prince school transforms into refuge for quake victims (VIDEO)

Todd Johnson
VIDEO - theGrio's Todd Johnson speaks with Marc Germaine, who has reopened a Port-au-Prince school and transformed it into a refuge for earthquake victims...
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