Thursday, July 22, 2010

Articles on Haiti Rebuilding Effort

I wanted to share a couple of articles that describe the challenges of the Haiti rebuilding process.

The first is from Lindsey Coates of The Huffington post on how determining land rights is a critical and time-consuming first step before constructing transitional or replacement shelters for survivors: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lindsay-coates/land-tenure-haitis-elepha_b_643353.html

The second is a longer article by Deborah Sontag at the NYTimes that describes the challenges of rebuilding in greater detail: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/11/world/americas/11haiti.html?sq=haiti&st=cse&scp=13&pagewanted=print

I'll highlight one statistic from the NYTimes article: "It would take three to five years to remove all the debris from Haiti if 1,000 or more trucks worked daily."

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