July 11, 2010
After Helping Haiti at Its Worst, a Need for Economic Development Grows Clearer
Disaster relief is not what my economic-development organization usually does. But as a nonprofit group that had been working for many years in Haiti, that’s what my colleagues at ACDI/VOCA suddenly had to do when the earthquake struck in January.
Our experience providing disaster aid taught us many valuable lessons, but as we reach the six-month mark since the catastrophe, one thing is clearer than ever. Haiti would be far better off today if even a fraction of the charitable
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