Loune Viaud of Zanmi Lasante (Partner's in Health's partner organization in Haiti) co-authored an op-ed in today's Boston Globe with Monika Kalra Varma, director of the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Human Rights. The piece focuses on the need for Haitian voices in decisions made to help rebuild their country.
Those who have worked in Haiti and other places around the world and have suffered large-scale death and destruction know that successful long-term recovery needs to be driven by the people most intimately affected. Beyond the enormous funding and international experts needed to rebuild Haiti, it is time to make a new pledge - to heed and support the experts who can truly rebuild Haiti, the Haitian people.
Read the entire article here.
Those who have worked in Haiti and other places around the world and have suffered large-scale death and destruction know that successful long-term recovery needs to be driven by the people most intimately affected. Beyond the enormous funding and international experts needed to rebuild Haiti, it is time to make a new pledge - to heed and support the experts who can truly rebuild Haiti, the Haitian people.
Read the entire article here.
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment