Haiti: A Tale of Two Cities

Haiti Grassroots Watch/Ayiti Kale Je
September 24, 2012

Port-au-Prince, 24 September 2012 – One city was built just last year. A project costing over US$2 million. Dozens of brightly painted new homes, scattered across a two-hectare site. But they are empty. Some have been vandalized… and worse. The scene is desolate and sometimes disgusting. But the project’s backers say it was a “success.”

The other city is the “heart of the nation,” Port-au-Prince’s downtown. Despite hundreds of thousands dollars spent on plans and conferences, it remains dirty, disorganized, and un-reconstructed. The government is starting to build its own buildings, but what is everyone else supposed to do?

To learn more: A Tale of Two Cities
http://haitigrassrootswatch.squarespace.com/journal/2012/9/24/le-conte-de-deux-villes-a-tale-of-two-cities.html