Haiti 2010

After the earthquake January 2010,

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We made a second trip to Haiti in June 2010. The team included a voluntary master-builder. We found a very difficult situation in Port-au-Prince, due to earthquake regressions and to the slow reconstruction pace. The committee in charge on the location wished to develop the project in Mirebalais.

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The building of a church started on the ground that had been acquired the year before

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The master-builder of the team has passed on earthquake-resistant building techniques to the Haitian builders.

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The plans include wall ties to hold together the different parts of the building.

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The structure of the building is practically finished.

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After the coating and the installation of the tin roof (more resistant to storm winds).

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Furthermore, GHA helps schooling 12 orphans of the community (in Haiti, schools are fee).

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On the long range, the Mirebalais Project is planning to build a complex which will include a school, an orphanage, a free health centre and housing.

More selectively, GHA has supported refugees’ camps in Port-au-Prince

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and helped homeless people to reconstruct their destroyed housing.

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