At a press conference, the Minister of Communication and Culture, Emmelie Prophète, stressed the importance of a resistant rehabilitation in the southern part of the country, highly vulnerable to natural phenomena.
For his part, Bruno Lemarquis, representative in Haiti of the United Nations Children’s Fund, pointed out that local economies should benefit from the reconstruction process, which could also strengthen state institutions.
“The recovery plan in the southern peninsula is another opportunity for Haitian institutions to strengthen their coordination mechanism with departments, international partners, strengthen their management and transparency mechanism, and their accountability mechanism,” he said.
On August 14, a 7.2-magnitude tremor had the Nippes department as its epicenter, leaving a balance of more than 2,200 dead and 12,700 injured, in addition to the destruction of some 130,000 homes.
Next Wednesday, government authorities plan to hold an international conference to raise funds.
Most of this amount would be allocated to social sectors such as housing construction (1,27 million dollars), education (401 million), food security (54.5 million) and health (31.9 million).
Some 1,250 schools were damaged, affecting more than 300,000 students, while 97 hospitals and health centers deteriorated.
The earthquake was the second deadliest since the one that occurred in 2010, which caused the death of more than 200,000 people, and nearly 1,500,000 lost their homes.
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