Monday, January 12, 2015

Tens of thousands still living in tents 5 years after Haiti earthquake | The Miami Herald

Tens of thousands still living in tents 5 years after Haiti earthquake | The Miami Herald: "PORT-AU-PRINCE
When Jackson Morrisseau learned that he was approved for a new constructed government-sponsored house on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince, the retired father of two thought he finally found deliverance after losing almost everything in the Jan. 12, 2010, earthquake.

But months after moving into the small yellow house, Morrisseau, 60, is having second thoughts."



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Former Haiti official: We have no idea where all that recovery money went | WashingtonExaminer.com

Former Haiti official: We have no idea where all that recovery money went | WashingtonExaminer.com: "Nearly five years after a 7.0 magnitude quake killed hundreds of thousands of its citizens, Haiti’s recovery efforts remain muddled and confused, with the whereabouts of the billions of dollars pledged by the international community an apparent mystery to the country’s leaders.

“We don’t know where the money has gone,” Raymond Joseph, former ambassador of Haiti to the U.S., said Friday in an interview on Bloomberg’s “Market Makers.”"



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