Clinton Urges Americans To Extend Helping Hand To Haiti
Submitted by FWO2 on April 15, 2009 – 7:00 amNo Comment
Excerpt from “Clinton calls on donors to help Haiti”
By Elise Labott, CNN
(CNN) — Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called on the international community Tuesday to commit dollars and manpower to help Haiti recover from a year of hurricanes and food riots.
“It is our task to open the door of opportunity for Haitians and send a message of what could occur,” she told a group of more than 40 nations and international organizations gathered for a donor’s conference for the Western Hemisphere’s poorest nation.
Clinton spoke a day before leaving for Haiti, after which she will travel to the Dominican Republic and then join President Obama at the Summit of the Americans in Trinidad and Tobago.
She pledged $57 million in U.S. aid to boost Haitian security, build roads, create jobs, fight drug trafficking and help Haiti with food shortages and debt caused by the global economic crisis and several devastating hurricanes. The United States, she said, is already providing nearly $290 million in non-emergency aid to Haiti this year.
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