Clinton and Bush fund plans big help for Haiti by Zivka Deleva

In the short-term, how can the people of Haiti stop living from day-to-day and at least live from month-to-month, know they'll be OK for a month, their children will be OK for a month – said US ex-president Bill Clinton yesterday, on his visit to Haiti, two and half months after the terrible earthquake. Together with his colleague George W. Bush, with whom they have founded a relief organization for the victims of the quake, they visited the representatives of this poor country in Port-au-Prince, scanned the situation and shared that they haven’t forgotten Haiti people. This fund aims to help the poorest South America’s state in its reconstruction. It has ! already raised 36 million dollars. Few hundreds of thousands of survivors are frightened from the coming rains and especially the hurricane season. After the catastrophe, 1.3 million people became homeless, and more than 220.000 people died. This visit is happening ten days before a meeting in New York on Haiti subject, when it ought to believe that the US country is going to donate 11.5 billion dollars for long-term reconstruction! If it is known that the disaster caused almost eight billion dollars damage, than this sum is more than welcomed. And that is already some help, and not as usually politicians do, only pledge, only say convenient phrases and when comes time for a real help, they are not there. Ex US presidents also promised that are going to try to convince the Congress to help Haiti impoverished people in the garment industry. "Because if we do, and we say we're going to do it for a longer period of time, we can get massive investment here and create tens o! f thousands or perhaps even 100,000 jobs. Korean businesses ha! ve alrea dy expressed an interest in investing in additional textile manufacturing facilities in Haiti if such an extension is passed” - said Clinton.

by Zivka Deleva for Cantell TV (http://cantell.tv)

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