Bill Clinton to Haiti: aidassistance will arrive soon
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Former US President and UN Special Envoy for Haiti Bill Clinton speaks with local residents on Wednesday in a city camp in Port-au-Prince. The Clinton Foundation announced that it will, through its Haiti Relief Fund, provide $500,000 in bridge funding. Thony Belizaire / Agence France-Presse |
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Former United States President Bill Clinton said desperately needed US aid is coming to Haiti despite delays after listening on Wednesday to refugees in a sprawling homeless camp complain of a lack of food, jobs and housing nine months after a devastating earthquake.
Clinton, the co-chair of the commission overseeing Haiti's reconstruction, expressed frustration with the slow delivery of promised funds by donors who have delivered about $732 million of a promised $5.3 billion in funds for 2010-11, along with debt relief. Most notably absent is the US, which has yet to deliver any of its promised $1.15 billion.
