Past disaster failures haunt quake-ravaged Haiti


With almost 53,000 homes completely destroyed and more than 77,000 others damaged in Saturday’s tremor, authorities have a massive group of people that will need extensive recovery help. – EPA pic, August 20, 2021.

FIVE days after a powerful earthquake killed nearly 2,200 people in Haiti, aid was arriving but officials were eager to not repeat the mistakes that followed a 2010 quake that devastated the Caribbean nation.

With almost 53,000 homes completely destroyed and more than 77,000 others damaged in Saturday’s tremor, authorities have a massive group of people that will need extensive recovery help.


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