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NY Times Op-Ed: What Haiti Needs Most a Year On Are Jobs
Haiti has been through an incredibly challenging year. Reacting quickly to the initial shock of need and displacement with a massive influx of aid, organizations from across the globe were able to help stymie the worst immediate effects of the earthquake.
Pressed by immediate challenges, addressing issues of infrastructure and economic growth becomes secondary.
Yet one year on, Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times writes that Haiti is struggling to emerge from the perilous position of post-quake shock. Kristof argues that improved economic prospects are necessary for breaking the cycle of "more needs, more crises, more tragedies, more victims." He writes:
"Let's send in doctors to save people from cholera. Let's send in aid workers to build sustainable sanitation and water systems to help people help themselves. Let's help educate Haitian children and improve the port so that it can become an exporter. But, above all, let's send in business investors to create jobs."
The Clinton Bush Haiti Fund understands the need for stable economic development and partnerships that develop Haiti's export potential.
By supporting projects that help businesses grow, bring more Haitians into positions of steady income, and promote native exports, the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund partnerships seek to create growth that can see Haiti well into the future.
Read Kristof's full New York Times op-ed article: Haiti, Nearly a Year Later
Learn more about the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund projects promoting job growth & economic opportunity
