A Haitian woman prays with a copy of the Bible in her hand during ceremonies to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the 2010 earthquake in Port-au-Prince. International donors pledged almost 10 billion dollars to reconstruct Haiti. So, one year after the earthquake, where is all that money and why has so little progress been made? Most of the 5.3 billion dollars pledged for the first 18 months has been legally committed, but only 1.2 billion has been allocated to specific reconstruction projects and donors are reluctant to disburse funds. Photo: Reuters
A Haitian woman prays with a copy of the Bible in her hand during ceremonies to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the 2010 earthquake in Port-au-Prince. International donors pledged almost 10 billion dollars to reconstruct Haiti. So, one year after the earthquake, where is all that money and why has so little progress been made? Most of the 5.3 billion dollars pledged for the first 18 months has been legally committed, but only 1.2 billion has been allocated to specific reconstruction projects and donors are reluctant to disburse funds. Photo: Reuters
A woman prepares food to sell next to a destroyed house in Port-au-Prince. Haiti will this week mark the first anniversary of the earthquake that killed around 250 000 people and wrecked much of the capital Port-au-Prince. International donors pledged almost 10 billion dollars to reconstruct Haiti. So, one year after the earthquake, where is all that money and why has so little progress been made? Most of the 5.3 billion dollars pledged for the first 18 months has been legally committed, but only 1.2 billion has been allocated to specific reconstruction projects and donors are reluctant to disburse funds. Photo: Reuters
Icaris Celnet stands in the ruins of The Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption in Haiti, on the eve of the first anniversary of the earthquake that killed more than 200 000 people and displaced some 1.5 million more. Celnet lost his leg during the earthquake. International donors pledged almost 10 billion dollars to reconstruct Haiti. So, one year after the earthquake, where is all that money and why has so little progress been made? Most of the 5.3 billion dollars pledged for the first 18 months has been legally committed, but only 1.2 billion has been allocated to specific reconstruction projects and donors are reluctant to disburse funds. Photo: AP
A Haitian woman prays during ceremonies to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the 2010 earthquake in Port-au-Prince. International donors pledged almost 10 billion dollars to reconstruct Haiti. So, one year after the earthquake, where is all that money and why has so little progress been made? Most of the 5.3 billion dollars pledged for the first 18 months has been legally committed, but only 1.2 billion has been allocated to specific reconstruction projects and donors are reluctant to disburse funds. Photo: Reuters
Former US President Bill Clinton visits a United Nations Development Program debris recycling project in Port-au-Prince. Haiti will this week mark the first anniversary of the earthquake that killed around 250 000 people and wrecked much of the capital. International donors pledged almost 10 billion dollars to reconstruct Haiti. So, one year after the earthquake, where is all that money and why has so little progress been made? Most of the 5.3 billion dollars pledged for the first 18 months has been legally committed, but only 1.2 billion has been allocated to specific reconstruction projects and donors are reluctant to disburse funds. Photo: Reuters
Men carry a matress in downtown Port-au-Prince. Haiti will this week mark the first anniversary of the earthquake that killed around 250 000 people and wrecked much of the capital. International donors pledged almost 10 billion dollars to reconstruct Haiti. So, one year after the earthquake, where is all that money and why has so little progress been made? Most of the 5.3 billion dollars pledged for the first 18 months has been legally committed, but only 1.2 billion has been allocated to specific reconstruction projects and donors are reluctant to disburse funds. Photo: Reuters
A girl suffering cholera symptoms receives treatment at the Doctors Without Borders temporary hospital in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. International donors pledged almost 10 billion dollars to reconstruct Haiti. So, one year after the earthquake, where is all that money and why has so little progress been made? Most of the 5.3 billion dollars pledged for the first 18 months has been legally committed, but only 1.2 billion has been allocated to specific reconstruction projects and donors are reluctant to disburse funds. Photo: AP
Earthquake survivor Peterson Exais is photographed in Miami. Haitian-Americans are marking the first year since a magnitude-7 earthquake killed more than 230 000 people and left more than 1.5 million homeless in their Caribbean homeland. International donors pledged almost 10 billion dollars to reconstruct Haiti. So, one year after the earthquake, where is all that money and why has so little progress been made? Most of the 5.3 billion dollars pledged for the first 18 months has been legally committed, but only 1.2 billion has been allocated to specific reconstruction projects and donors are reluctant to disburse funds. Photo: AP
Men walk past crucifixes at a mass grave site at Titanyen on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince. Haiti will this week mark the first anniversary of the earthquake that killed around 250 000 people and wrecked much of the capital Port-au-Prince. International donors pledged almost 10 billion dollars to reconstruct Haiti. So, one year after the earthquake, where is all that money and why has so little progress been made? Most of the 5.3 billion dollars pledged for the first 18 months has been legally committed, but only 1.2 billion has been allocated to specific reconstruction projects and donors are reluctant to disburse funds. Photo: Reuters
A woman holding a rosary prays in front of the Haiti cathedral, which was destroyed in the 2010 earthquake, in Port-au-Prince. International donors pledged almost 10 billion dollars to reconstruct Haiti. So, one year after the earthquake, where is all that money and why has so little progress been made? Most of the 5.3 billion dollars pledged for the first 18 months has been legally committed, but only 1.2 billion has been allocated to specific reconstruction projects and donors are reluctant to disburse funds. Photo: Reuters
People try to stay in line to get disaster relief supplies at US 82nd Airborne Division's forward operating base in the aftermath of the earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. In 2010 crisis has piled upon crisis in Haiti. International donors pledged almost 10 billion dollars to reconstruct Haiti. So, one year after the earthquake, where is all that money and why has so little progress been made? Most of the 5.3 billion dollars pledged for the first 18 months has been legally committed, but only 1.2 billion has been allocated to specific reconstruction projects and donors are reluctant to disburse funds. Photo: AP
A Haitian woman dries clothes over bricks in Port-au-Prince. No one disputes that the last year's earthquake devastated Haiti's capital and created one of the most complex and challenging humanitarian and reconstruction tasks ever faced by the international aid community. International donors pledged almost 10 billion dollars to reconstruct Haiti. So, one year after the earthquake, where is all that money and why has so little progress been made? Most of the 5.3 billion dollars pledged for the first 18 months has been legally committed, but only 1.2 billion has been allocated to specific reconstruction projects and donors are reluctant to disburse funds. Photo: Reuters
A woman sits outside her tent in downtown Port-au-Prince. Haiti will this week mark the first anniversary of the earthquake that killed around 250,000 people and wrecked much of the capital. International donors pledged almost 10 billion dollars to reconstruct Haiti. So, one year after the earthquake, where is all that money and why has so little progress been made? Most of the 5.3 billion dollars pledged for the first 18 months has been legally committed, but only 1.2 billion has been allocated to specific reconstruction projects and donors are reluctant to disburse funds. Photo: Reuters
A woman walks past an earthquake damaged building in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on the eve of the first anniversary of the earthquake that killed more than 200 000 people and displaced some 1.5 million more. International donors pledged almost 10 billion dollars to reconstruct Haiti. So, one year after the earthquake, where is all that money and why has so little progress been made? Most of the 5.3 billion dollars pledged for the first 18 months has been legally committed, but only 1.2 billion has been allocated to specific reconstruction projects and donors are reluctant to disburse funds. Photo: AP
Haitians attend ceremonies to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the 2010 earthquake in Port-au-Prince. International donors pledged almost 10 billion dollars to reconstruct Haiti. So, one year after the earthquake, where is all that money and why has so little progress been made? Most of the 5.3 billion dollars pledged for the first 18 months has been legally committed, but only 1.2 billion has been allocated to specific reconstruction projects and donors are reluctant to disburse funds. Photo: Reuters
A woman washes clothes next to a house destroyed by the earthquake in Port-au-Prince.
Published Jan 12, 2011
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International donors pledged almost 10 billion dollars to reconstruct Haiti. So, one year after the earthquake, where is all that money and why has so little progress been made? Most of the 5.3 billion dollars pledged for the first 18 months has been legally committed, but only 1.2 billion has been allocated to specific reconstruction projects and donors are reluctant to disburse funds. Future cash commitments are drying up as confidence evaporates in an effort that has only managed to clear five percent of the rubble, leaving more than one million survivors subsisting in tent cities that look more and more permanent with every passing day.
Of 2.1 billion dollars pledged in 2010 for reconstruction, less than half has been given. The United States, the biggest single donor, has delayed disbursing most of its 1.17-billion-dollar pledge until 2011, spending only one-tenth of that.
