Q Life Magazine Q Magazine (US) December 2015 | Page 68

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Sciences at the Université d’État d’Haïti, one
of the oldest and most prestigious universities in
Port-au-Prince, Haiti’s capital. The project aims to
establish an educational hub in the recovering city.
The largest housing project is a partnership with the
United States Agency for International Development
(USAID), a $5 million pledge to build “Qatar City,”
a community of 148 homes, a vocational school,
and a commercial area in the western city of Cabaret.
The area is being developed as a state-of-the-art,
environmentally integrated, disaster-resistant community
by the United Nations Office for Project Services
(UNOPS). It is due to be completed in 2016.
There is a training aspect to many of these projects,
Salzman says. That’s a real bonus in a country that had
high unemployment and a weak educational system
even before the disaster struck. “The people are
desperately poor, they have suffered through many
upheavals, economic as well as natural,” notes Salzman.
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“The government of Qatar sees humanitarian aid
as a key element of its foreign policy and culture,”
says Ambassador Mohammed Al-Kuwari. “The Qatar
Foreign Aid Program is one of the most active programs
in the international community.”
“We are attuned to the
difficulties of working in Haiti,
so we’ve approached this fund
with great care. We want to
make sure that the maximum
amount of money is devoted
to helping the people of Haiti.”
Ambassador Mohammed Al-Kuwari