solutionHAITI

Questions

• How can we use the skills & capital of the diaspora?

  The diaspora numbers 2 – 4 million Haitians and sends nearly $ 2 billion a year to Haiti which represents 20 – 25% of the entire local Haitian economy.  The vast majority of college-educated Haitians are overseas and many of them are very well-connected in their host countries.  The economic potential is enormous.  3 million [...]

• How can the capital be rebuilt?

    The scale of the damage to the Haitian capital due to the 2010 earthquake is staggering.  By some estimates, 70% of buildings in Port-au-Prince were destroyed or severely damaged by the earthquake including 250,000 homes, 30,000 commercial buildings, 16,000 schools and many national institutions.  Port-au-Prince was poorly planned, lacking in basic infrastructure and overpopulated [...]

• How can the youth participate?

  The youth of Haiti are nearly a majority of all Haitians and played a big role in electing the new President.  In the years to come, it is the Haitian youth that will lead the country.  They have shown that they are interested in participating in the political process now.   How can they do [...]