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Haiti reconstruction gaining momentum: Worldbank VP to visit
During its first eight months, the agency evaluated 400,000 buildings in Port-au-Prince and developed guidelines and building codes for safe public buildings, schools and hospitals, the World Bank said.
The ministry also houses the database that “allows the risks to which every village or town in Haiti is exposed to be identified, providing crucial information to reduce the population’s vulnerability to disasters in the entire country,” the bank said.
Tuluy will also visit the Pétionville Club Camp, home to thousands of earthquake refugees whom the World Bank is helping to relocate to permanent housing.
A US$ 95 million project is to house 85,000 people, and upgrade neighbourhoods and basic services for 300,000 others, the bank said. The project also provides rent subsidies to help families move out of the camps.
On Friday, Tuluy will visit a primary school that received tuition waivers and school feeding financed by the World Bank’s International Development Association (IDA).
Since the earthquake, the World Bank said it has funded 210,000 tuition waivers and school meals for 75,000 children every day.
The bank is funding a project to give as many 175,000 Haitian children between ages six and 12 access to primary school.
