Program will benefit some 5,000 families to be relocated from tent camps in Port-au-Prince
A $30 million grant from the Inter-American Development Bank will help Haiti relocate some 5,000 families from tent camps in high-risk areas in Port-au-Prince to a new settlement with transitional housing and basic sanitation services.
The new settlement will be built on a plot of public land in Les Orangers, an area north of Port-au-Prince, following the guidelines of the Shelter Sector Response Plan, which has been approved by the Haitian government and is backed by various agencies assisting the country after the January 12 earthquake.
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NEW YORK — Canada is pledging $400 million over two years in money and debt relief to help in the reconstruction of Haiti after January's devastating earthquake.
The world's leading industrialised nations have pledged to write off the debts that Haiti owes them, following a devastating earthquake last month. Canada's finance minister announced at a summit in Iqaluit, northern Canada, that Group of Seven countries planned to cancel Haiti's bilateral debts. Jim Flaherty said he would encourage international lenders to do the same. Some $1.2bn (£800m) of Haiti's debts to countries and international lending bodies has already been cancelled. 
Monday, March 01, 2010 — It came a month before the official start of the season, but the intense rain that swept through the western end of the southern Haitian promontory over the weekend left parts of the city of Les Cayes under 1.5 meters of water and reportedly claimed eight lives. 