Haiti Cleans Up Rubble & Garbage, by Ambassador mo

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Coming up on 2 years since the devastating earthquake, much of the rubble caused by the destruction and garbage has been cleared enabling more intense reconstruction/rehabilitation of the island country. It also helps ease concerns of disease and further degradation of Haiti’s infrastructure. It also has offered work for many who need it and embrace it. See Film Report – “Rebuilding Homes: Google, NASA & Haiti” - diplomaticallyincorrect.org/films/movie/rebuilding-homes-google-nasahaiti/23980. Nanouche Rochambert is one of the 176 employees at the debris management site. Most people working here are former unemployed garbage pickers who now have a regular income: “What is my job? I clean the rubble so it is suitable to be crushed. “We are doing it for the state to make roads and other works in the country. With what I make I can educate my son, and provide for my family.” Ms. Rocambert works in two shifts at the Truitier rubble site sorting the rubble-all that is left of hundreds of thousands of homes and buildings destroyed in the January 12, 2010 quake. The sorted rubble is crushed for future use in Haiti’s capital and beyond. Carl Henry Viélot, Site Manager at the Truitier debris site: “Before the quake it was a catastrophe here, you had no infrastructure, no office, and no roads. We have been able to do all this in just two years.” Bernard Saurel collects rubble six days a week at Truitier. He says working at the landfill is his way of helping Haiti to recover from the earthquake. “It allows me to contribute to the reconstruction of the country.” It’s a way to earn a salary, Bernard says, to meet his needs and those of his baby son. The debris management site is run by the Ministry of Public Works of Haiti with World Bank support. It is Haiti’s only rubble disposal site to comply with international environmental safeguards. See Film Report - “Haiti Cholera & Cleanup” - diplomaticallyincorrect.org/films/movie/haiti-cholera-cleanup/23901 By Ambassador Muhamed Sacirbey Facebook – Become a Fan at “Diplomatically Incorrect” Twitter – Follow us at DiplomaticallyX “Haiti Emergency” Channel - diplomaticallyincorrect.org/c/haiti-emergency


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"Voice of the Global Citizen"- Diplomatically Incorrect (diplomaticallyincorrect.org) provide film and written reports on issues reflecting diplomatic discourse and the global citizen. Ambassador Muhamed Sacirbey (@MuhamedSacirbey) is former Foreign Minister Ambassador of Bosnia & Herzegovina at the United Nations. "Mo" is also signatory of the Rome Conference/Treaty establishing the International…

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