By ROBERT ROTH “We have all suffered. But we are motivated right now to help our people. That makes us strong. That allows us to go on. ” - Teacher at a mobile school/ Aristide Foundation for Democracy- It is now more than five months since the January 12th earthquake devastated Haiti. Over 200,000...
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Bill Clinton attend encore la matérialisation des engagements pris par d’innombrables pays à la Conférence des donateurs de New York le 31 mars 2010. Cependant, sans des chiffres mirobolants à annoncer, le coprésident de la CIRH a réussi un coup médiatique quasi parfait. Il a amené, à Port-au-Prince, à la première réunion de cette...
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More than five months after the earthquake, with rubble still clogging the streets of the capital and some 1.5 million Haitians still homeless, the interim commission for Haiti’s reconstruction met Thursday for the first time. The panel, chaired by former President Bill Clinton and Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive, met behind closed doors, but Mr....
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WASHINGTON — Haiti’s recovery from the devastating earthquake in January requires more than rebuilding structures, but also repairing tattered paintings and cultural objects still buried in the rubble, the Caribbean nation’s first lady Elisabeth Preval said Thursday. She visited the Smithsonian Institution to open an exhibit of children’s artwork created after the earthquake, calling...
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