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asiliveandbreathe

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2. Thanks for the news bite..hadn't heard too much re Haiti...
Wed Sep 7, 2016, 04:48 PM
Sep 2016

so I went hunting in search for more...here is more from the NYT - last March 2016..

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/15/us/politics/hillary-clinton-haiti.html?_r=0

...snip.....

The Clintons had large roles in the earthquake recovery effort, Mrs. Clinton as secretary of state and Mr. Clinton as co-chairman of the Interim Haiti Recovery Commission. Along with his predecessor in the White House, the elder George Bush, Mr. Clinton raised tens of millions of dollars through the Clinton Foundation to promote development, schools and farming in Haiti, while also helping draw hundreds of millions in private investments.

Officials at the Clinton Foundation said they were not surprised by some of the disappointment, given that even before the earthquake, Haiti was one of the world’s poorest countries. Now, the average family gets by on $1.25 a day.


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