Haiti FabLab Fund

From left to right: MA State Reps Marie St-Fleur & Linda Dorcena Forry, Dean Steve Lerman, Dr. Marc Zissman, Paul Altidor

Marie St. Fleur: Haiti is in disarray, and its government is not functioning well. It is not only not functioning because of the massive earthquake that has just hit, but because before, funding aid in Haiti has categorically favoured NGOs, leaving the government as secondary in providing help to the citizens. NGOs cannot deal with large scale infrastructure problems the way governments can. The government is not functioning the way it should, and the Haitian government, the Haitian economy and Haitian education needs to start fortifying themselves if this is going to get any better.

http://krikkrak.media.mit.edu/lectureseries#feb17

Tags: dale joachim, haiti, haitian diaspora, linda dorcena forry, marc zissman, marie st. fleur, michel degraff, paul altidor, steven lerman, world bank

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