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Clinton Bush Haiti Fund and The Mastercard Foundation Team Up to Provide $5.68 Million in Vocational & Leadership Training for Haitian Youth

Posted in Featured News on Dec 5th, 2010

5 December 2010 [MCFoundation] The Clinton Bush Haiti Fund together with The MasterCard Foundation and YouthBuild International, today announced a $5.68 million partnership to support youth employment and long-term reconstruction in Haiti.  The project supports the creation of education and skills development centers throughout Haiti where more than 5,300 Haitian youth will receive vocational training [...]

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Haiti: Arrival of Mobile Banking

Posted in Featured News on Nov 29th, 2010

29 November 2010 [FTBlog] It’s very hard to be upbeat about Haiti at the moment. Lurching from crisis to crisis, it is in the thick of a cholera epidemic, which the UN now thinks could affect double the amount of people – 400,000 – than it had previously thought. Worse, the outbreak could undermine elections [...]

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Can Microlending Save Haiti?

Posted in Featured Articles on Nov 13th, 2010

By Daniel Costello Léogâne, Haiti 13 November 2010 [NYTimes] VENANTE LINO, a small-business owner who lost nearly everything in the devastating earthquake in January, stood in line here along with dozens of other impeccably dressed women, all waiting to pay the latest monthly installment on the emergency loans they received to rebuild their businesses. Mrs. [...]

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