Monday, February 1, 2010

Haiti: "Cash for Work" Program Up and Running

 
 

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via (title unknown) by Mark Leon Goldberg on 1/27/10

The UN is trying to jump-start the cash economy in areas affected by the earthquake.

The Haiti earthquake not only collapsed buildings and killed as many as 200,000 people, it also destroyed the already fragile economy around Port-au-Prince.  Now that the search and rescue phase has concluded, the UN is trying to jump-start the cash economy in areas affected by the earthquake.  To that end, the United Nations Development  program launched a "cash for work" program in which Haitians are hired on a day-to-day basis to help clear rubble and clean the streets.  From the UN New


 
 

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