The National Directorate of Water Supply and Sanitation (DINEPA) has selected Suez Environnement for accompany them during three years in an emergency plan to rehabilitate the water and sanitation services in the metropolitan area of capital Port-au-Prince.
The mission of rehabilitation initiated by the authorities of Haiti will rely on experts and the…
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Bishop Launay Saturné, Bishop of Jacmel in Haiti, appointed the April 28 by Pope Benedict XVI has expressed his desire to rebuild the cathedral of the city, which is a "symbolic place and of unity", a place that has been heavily damaged by the earthquake of January 2010.
"No reconstruction without mission" Mgr Launay Saturné, however, insisted that…
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Added by Haitian All-Starz on February 28, 2011 at 2:39pm —
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Within the framework of the risk reduction of natural disasters project and more particularly in the context of attenuation of earthquake threat, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), delivered to the Haitian institutions the macroseismic zoning maps of Port-au-Prince, a crucial tool for all projects building in Haiti. Developed in collaboration with the National…
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The Colombian diplomat, Maria Angela Holguin, last week in Bogota had envisaged, with the Security Council, the possibility of transforming the Minustah mission in a development operation for Haiti. In an official statement, the diplomat confirmed that the possibility of transformation of the Minustah will be discussed and supported by the Colombia to the United Nations in…
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Added by Haitian All-Starz on February 24, 2011 at 11:20am —
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The reconstruction aid to Haiti following the earthquake of January 2010 was hampered by a lack of cooperation and communication among international organizations, argued Tuesday the American actor Sean Penn [co-founder of the NGO JP/HRO] during a charity dinner in Vienna where he had to raise funds to finance the activities of his organization.
"This is not a…
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Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive and President Bill Clinton, Co-Chairs of the Interim Haiti Recovery Commission (IHRC), along with members of the IHRC Board, held a productive meeting with Haiti's presidential candidates yesterday. The group also hosted members of the Club de Madrid and representatives from UNESCO and CARICOM who presented their thoughts and…
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Rebeca Grynspan, UNDP Associate Administrator yesterday visited Leogane, the epicentre of the 12 January earthquake, where UNDP is implementing a pioneering debris management initiative. Thanks to the support of the Canadian, Kuwait and Finnish governments, UNDP started in early-November 2010, a project which will clear in 2011 approximately 325,000 cubic metres from…
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Added by Haitian All-Starz on February 16, 2011 at 12:22pm —
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Some 120 young people between 18 and 25 of Cap-Haitien, mostly from poor neighborhoods like Cité Lescot, La Violette, Bel Air, La Fosette, Ste Philomène / San Rezon, Vertières Barriere Bouteilles and the Downtown, are currently involved in a vocational training program for a period of six months, financed at a cost of $ 200,000 by the UN Mission for Stabilization in Haiti…
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Added by Haitian All-Starz on February 11, 2011 at 3:05pm —
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A few days after the earthquake of January 2010, the Construction Association of Quebec (Association de la Construction du Québec ACQ) has sought a development project to help the people of Haiti. "Over the past year we have brought together many partners of the construction industry and we are very pleased to officially launch the "Projet Haïti" [...] I am announcing that…
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Added by Haitian All-Starz on February 11, 2011 at 1:45pm —
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When you have a major disaster like the one in Haiti, whether it comes from an earthquake, flood, tsunami, hurricane, or some other calamity, two of the biggest challenges are cleaning up and providing power.
Enter the DIY gasifier. Gasification is an old technology that is coming back into vogue again thanks to high energy prices. The simplest explanation is that a gasifier takes any dry, carbon-based material (usually wood chips, but often things like walnut shells, dried…
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Added by Haitian All-Starz on February 7, 2011 at 1:34pm —
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Over the past 30 years, the Haitian government and the international community have largely failed in Haiti. Poverty, corruption, illness are all part of the story. Rebuilding (or should I say building?) the country will require new approaches.
At NetHope, we have seen the innovative use of…
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Added by Haitian All-Starz on February 7, 2011 at 12:55pm —
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Ecuador has spent $12MM to Haiti's reconstruction since the earthquake of January 2010 said Carlos Lopez Damm, Ambassador of Ecuador in Haiti.
After the earthquake, which killed about 316.000 people
(1), and made 300,000 injured and 1.5 million people disaster, the countries of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) have pledged to support Haiti and…
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Added by Haitian All-Starz on February 7, 2011 at 11:12am —
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The Spanish organization ONCE (Organización Nacional de Españoles Ciegos) and its Foundation will spend nearly 134,000 euros to a project of education and rehabilitation of persons with a complete or partial visual impairments in Haiti. Most of its funding comes from contributions collected after the earthquake that struck Haiti in January 2010, from the employees of the…
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Added by Haitian All-Starz on February 7, 2011 at 11:00am —
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José María Vázquez, the Argentina Ambassador in Haiti, announced that the program of cooperation "Pro Huerta", conceived by the National Institute of Agricultural Technology (INTA) and the Ministry of Social Development, included 120,000 people. The program will now expand to 1 million people over 3 years and 4 million people over 7 years, so the entire population living in…
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The Prince's Foundation for the Built Environment of the Prince Charles based in London and the firm of Miami, Duany Plater-Zyberk (DPZ), have been committed by the Haitian Government to develop a reconstruction plan of Port-au-Prince and make proposals on the spatial organization of the perimeter declared of public utility.
The foundation, with its international…
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Added by Haitian All-Starz on January 29, 2011 at 11:53am —
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During the three-day symposium on investment and capital markets in Kingston (Jamaica), Percival James Patterson, Former Prime Minister of Jamaica, Special Envoy for Haiti of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), has asked to the Caribbean business community to get involved in the rebuilding of Haiti
(1).
He was convinced that this country, which has been…
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Added by Haitian All-Starz on January 29, 2011 at 11:30am —
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Haiti's infrastructural history is complex. Built and rebuilt several times over, the story of the nation's roads might not hold the human interest of the revolution or the political intrigues of the early 20th century, but it provides vital context for understanding the development of the Haitian economy and social structures.
Patrick Bellegarde-Smith is a professor of Africology at the…
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Added by Haitian All-Starz on January 27, 2011 at 3:19pm —
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Tents are falling out of favor in the massive effort to provide shelter for people who've lost their homes in Haiti, The New York Times reports.
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Added by Haitian All-Starz on January 27, 2011 at 3:00pm —
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