A Canadian Haiti-aid charity battered last year by a child sex scandal is ramping up its earthquake-relief efforts in hopes of repairing its image, The Globe and Mail reports.

Hearts Together for Haiti, in Windsor, Ontario, scaled back its work on the island after a priest heading its mission in the city of Labadie was charged with sexually exploiting teenage boys. The charges followed an investigation that began after the charity’s board told police of reports of the alleged misconduct.

Board members decided to renew the charity’s efforts after receiving unsolicited donations from around the world following the January 12 earthquake, focusing on the city of Jacmel.

Emergency medical teams that flooded into Haiti last month are beginning to pull out, complicating efforts by remaining doctors to maintain follow-up care, The Wall Street Journal reports.

The head of one clinic said 25 percent to 30 percent of surgeries performed in the quake’s aftermath need to be redone because the original operations were done hastily in poor conditions.

The Swiss government is taking steps to establish a legal basis for turning over former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier’s fortune to aid groups, The New York Times reports.

The move by Switzerland’s Federal Council to draft a law on “restitution of assets of illicit origin” aims to counter a January ruling by the country’s highest court that Duvalier and his family could keep $5.7-million they deposited overseas in 1986 as his regime collapsed. A lower court had previously ruled that the money had been looted from Haiti and should be returned in the form of charitable aid.

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