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Introducing Haiti’s cholera plight “into the minds and hearts of people of power and influence, and people who wish to do good in key places.”

January 18th, 2017

“…building a consortium to finance long-term water and sanitation needs in Haiti….”

“….The United Nations announced the long-term project last month as part of a new approach to eliminating the water-borne disease in Haiti. The proposal is part of a $400 million package then-U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon laid out after delivering a long sought after apology to the people of Haiti for the U.N.’s role in introducing the deadly disease in Haiti with the arrival of Nepalese peacekeepers nearly seven years ago. Since then, the disease has killed more than 9,400 Haitians and infected more than 802,000 people….”

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