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February 8, 2010

Rebirth of Haiti Begins with Education

Cesar Chelala, Japan Times

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NEW YORK — "Did you see this?" My colleague asked me in a hospital in Port-au-Prince, Haiti's capital, in 2005.

Regrettably, I had seen it — a dead child covered with a sheet, flies buzzing around it, seemingly abandoned in a hospital hallway. For days afterward that sight haunted me. It also was proof of the desperate state of Haiti's hospitals.

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