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Haitians Cry: Show Me the Money
Rob Reynolds - TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Jul 2010

Certainly the international workers who have come to Haiti are genuinely motivated by a desire to help the desperately poor country rebuild. It’s unfair, even preposterous, to suggest that they are here to enrich themselves. Yet a perception exists, says Marilyn Allein, the Haiti representative of the anti-corruption watchdog group Transparency International, that the aid agencies’ activity is “much ado about nothing”. Haitians “see these luxury cars going by with the air conditioning on”, she said, “and they see lots of foreigners, but they don’t see much yet in terms of results”.

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