Haiti to Relocate 400,000 Quake Homeless
Deseret News (Salt Lake City) › January 22, 2010
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Within days, the government will move 400,000 people -- of the estimated 2 million made homeless by Haiti's epic earthquake -- from their squalid improvised camps throughout the shattered capital to new resettlement areas on the outskirts, a top Haitian official said Thursday.
Authorities are worried about sanitation and disease outbreaks in makeshift settlements like the one on the city's central Champs de Mars plaza, said Fritz Longchamp, chief of staff to President Rene Preval.See the full content of this document
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Haiti to Relocate 400,000 Quake Homeless
"The Champs de Mars is no palace for 1,000 or 10,000 people," Longchamp told The Associated Press. "They are going to be going to places where they will have at least some adequate facilities."
He said buses would start moving people within a week to 10...See the full content of this document
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