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Article: Rebuilding Haiti will require enormous international funds, many years.
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- South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, FL)
- Article date:
- March 9, 2004
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Byline: Tim Collie
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti _ She's still a year away from receiving a bachelor's degree in agricultural economics in a nation where erosion has turned most farmlands into deserts and the national economy has collapsed.
Even so, Elsie Despeignes, 23, said she still has hope for her future and the future of her troubled land, wracked by violence during the four-week rebellion that drove Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide from power last week and left her university all but destroyed.
"Yes, we're an overcrowded, tiny country with very few natural resources, but look at Singapore," said Despeignes, standing amid the wreckage of ...